William Kentridge

William Kentridge

(b. 1955, Johannesburg, South Africa. Lives and works in Johannesburg.)

William Kentridge studied at the Johannesburg Art Foundation and the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He was a founding member of the Free Filmmakers Co-operative in 1988. In 1998, a major retrospective exhibition opened at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. A second exhibition, co-organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, took place in 2001. Kentridge has participated in a number of international biennales and in Documenta X (1997) and XI (2002). He has been the recipient of numerous prizes including the Kaiserring Prize (2003), the Carnegie Prize, the Carnegie International (2000), Standard Bank Young Artist Award (1987), and the Red Ribbon Award for Short Fiction (1982).

RECENT SOLO SHOWS

2010
William Kentridge: Five Themes, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Albertina Museum, Vienna
2009
William Kentridge: Five Themes, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
2008
William Kentridge: 10 Tapestries, Philadelphia Museum of Art

RECENT GROUP SHOWS

2009
Blickmaschinen / Visual Tactics: Optical Instruments in History and Contemporary Art, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
Play – Film and Video," Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2008
Peripheral Look and Collective Body, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Sydney Biennale: Revolutions: Forms that Turn, Sydney, Australia
2007
StereoVision, University of South Florida Contemporary. Art Museum, Tampa, Florida
Zona Franca – Free Zone, Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Interview with William Kentridge on Sunday Arts.
Interactive feature on the MoMA website: William Kentridge Five Themes.
Special Exhibition Videos from the MoMA website.

Download Biography (PDF 88 K)

William Kentridge Exhibitions

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William Kentridge Publications

Cyclopedia of Drawing
William Kentridge

Flute
William Kentridge

WK5: William Kentridge - Five Themes
William Kentridge

William Kentridge Nose: Thirty Etchings
William Kentridge

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