Robert A. Hamblin

**Robert A. Hamblin** ( bɛ dɔɣɔ la yuuni  1969) o nyɛla ŋun nyɛ South African-born nucheeni tuun tumdi ŋun tumdi anfooni nim tuma, ni pentin tuma nima.

## O pilli mini o bɔm'ma sɔli
Robert A. Hamblin nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so tiŋyuli booni  Hillbrow, Johannesburg yuuni 1969 ni. 

O nyɛla ŋun naagi o  High School tiŋyuli booni  Alberton, Gauteng Province (Johannesburg region) yuuni 198.

### Organizational work

* Iranti (transgender and lesbian focus) Board Chairperson yuuni  2019  hali ni yuuni  2021
* Iranti (transgender and lesbian focus) board member yuuni 2016 -hali ni yuuni 2020.
* The Sistaaz Hood Support Group for Transgender women sex workers. Founder member, volunteer consultant Sex Worker Education Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT): yuuni 2011 hali ni yuuni 2020.
* Gender DynamiX (GDX) Founder board member, board chairperson, advocacy manager, deputy director: yuuni 2006 hali ni yuuni  2011.

## O kpaŋmaŋ pina

* Fellowship Award at the Houston Centre for Photography in Texas (The Binary Farm).
* South Africa Kanna nomination Award. Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (“when you feeling like a lady)

## Exhibitions

### O konko

* Yuuni 2021 I Just Told the Stars Who I Am 99 Loop Gallery.
* Yuuni 2018 InterseXion Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
* Yuuni 2017 InterseXion  Johannesburg, Bloemfontein
* Yuuni 2017 The Colony University of Stellenbosch Art Museum Cape Town
* Yuuni 2016 Threshold International Young Photographers Festival, Daegu, South Korea
* Yuuni 2015 Daughter Language Lizamore & Associates Gallery, Johannesburg
* Yuuni 2014 The Colony , University of Johannesburg Gallery, Johannesburg
* Yuuni 2013 “..When You're Feeling Like a Lady..” University of Cape Town Centre for African Studies Gallery, African Gender Institute
* Yuuni 2013 The Colony Aardklop National arts festival, Potchefstroom
* Yuuni 2006 The Binary Farm  Cape Town, Potchefstroom
* Yuuni 2000 The Post Christian Open Window Art Academy,  Pretoria, Potchefstroom
* Yuuni 1998 Millennium Man  Potchefstroom, Cape Town, Johannesburg
* Yuuni 1996 In a Different Light Private Studio, Johannesburg

### Bɛ zaɣa bɔbigu
* Yuuni 2021 Abstrakt Nel on Long Street Gallery, Cape Town
* Yuuni 2020 Paintings (Beyond Exhibition), Dawid Ras Gallery, Johannesburg
* Yuuni 2016 Daughter Language (DF Group 1 Exhibition), Erdmann Contemporary Group, Cape Town
* Yuuni 2015 InterseXion (Queer in Africa Conference), The District Six Museum Homecoming Centre,  Cape Town (Collaboration with The Sistaaz Hood)
* Yuuni 2015 Daughter Language (Lizamore & Assoc artist), Cape Town Art Fair 
* Yuuni 2015 Daughter Language (Break the Spell exhibition), Oude Libertas Gallery Stellenbosch, Cape Town
* Yuuni 2014 “when you feeling like a lady” (Nomad bodies exhibition), Antwerp University College of Artesis, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Belgium.
* Yuuni 2013 The Morality Monkeys (group exhibition), Dstreet Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa
* Yuuni 2013 Nomad Bodies, Wintertuin Gallery, University College of Artesis, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp
* Yuuni 2013 Tom Waits for No Man, KKNK & venues nationwide, South Africa
* Yuuni 2013 Five Photographers, Dawid's Choice Gallery, Johannesburg
* Yuuni 2010 Swallow Your Pride, Blank Projects, South Africa
* Yuuni 2008 Legacy of Men, Johannesburg Art Gallery
* Yuuni 2006 Binary Farm (with Neo Ntsoma and Jurgen Schadaberg), University of Johannesburg Gallery
* Yuuni 2006 Round Table, ArtSpace, Johannesburg
* Yuuni 2006 Father (video), Out in Africa Film Festival & Hamburg LGBT Film Festival,
* Yuuni 2006 The Best of KKNK, Gordon Froud Contemporary, Johannesburg
* Yuuni 2004 Gender, (HCP fellowship award), Houston Centre of Photography, Rice University, USA
* Yuuni 2003 Inner Room (group), Aluvert, Johannesburg
* Yuuni 2002 Time Shift with Nel Erasmus, ArtSpace, Johannesburg

### Collections

* University of Johannesburg
* William Humphreys art Gallery, Kimberly, South Africa

## Publications

* New Museum/MIT Press “Representation and Its Limits”  Critical Anthology on Trans Cultural Production & the Politics of Visibility - 2017.
* How poverty and gender inequality weave across a human body - Lucinda Jolly Business Day.
* Art that explores fatherhood and transracial adoption - Dr. Richardt Strydom Mail and Guardian.
* Amsterdam University Press: “Queer Visual Activism in South Africa” - Dr. Tessa Lewin.
*The Aesthetics of Global Protest
* Wasafari Journal - “Prosody for a Queer Alphabet: Contemporary Performance Art Practices in South Africa”, Dr. Roelof Petrus van Wyk.
* The Journalist: Thabo Thwala - “Intersexion: an exhibition steeped in transgender sex work”.
* Cape Times - Confines of a Man.
*Eyemazing Susan Annual Pictorial Vol.II - Lucie Award Winner.
* Unisa Press “(Dis)Engaging the Gaze – Moving Images and the Lives of Trans Sex Workers” Dr. Ernst van der Wal.
* Stellenbosch University Publications - Body of/in Work: Volatile Images and the Representation of Trans Sex Workers Dr. Ernst van der Wal.
*Feminist Africa 14 Rethinking Gender and Violence 2010

## Media

* The Homebru Podcast 2021. Interview with Jonathan Ancer August 2021.
*Daily Maverick: Interview with Karin Schimke
*Cape Talk: Radio interview on his memoir *Robert: A Queer & Crooked Memoir*
*News24: Article by Shaun De Waal August 2021
*Luan Nel on Robert A. Hamblin July 2021
*Book review on SABC NEWS June 2021
*Podcast. Down Memoir Lane with Robert A. Hamblin
*Book review Mamba online June 2021
*LitNet Interview with Robert A. Hamblin (Afrikaans) July 2021
*Daily Maverick: Voices of the body by Shaun De Waal June 2007

## External links
* Official site 

## Kundivihira