Biography
1955 | Born in Johannesburg, South Africa |
Education:
1973-76 | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa | |
1976-78 | Johannesburg Art Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa | |
1981-82 | École Jacques LeCoq, Paris, France |
Awards:
2018 | Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize, Italy | |
2017 | Princess of Asturias Award | |
2013 | Humanitas, Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art at Oxford University | |
2012 | Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University | |
2010 | Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy | |
2003 | Kaiserring Prize, Mönchehaus-Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany | |
1991 | Weekly Mail Short Film Competition Award for Mine, Johannesburg, South Africa |
Works:
1992 | Drawings for Projection, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa | |
1994 | Felix in Exile, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa | |
1998-99 | William Kentridge, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany; Neue Galerie Graz, Austria; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; Serpentine Gallery, London; Neue Galerie Graz, Austria | |
2000 | Procession: Sculpture by William Kentridge, The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa | |
2001-02 | William Kentridge, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa | |
2009 | William Kentridge, Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan Creates first ‘Drawing Lesson’ films: on-going series of films shot in the studio and using Kentridge as live actor |
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2009-10 | William Kentridge, What We See & What We Know, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan | |
2010 | William Kentridge, Louvre Museum, Paris | |
2011 | Refuse the Hour, The Market Theatre, Johannesburg | |
2012 | The Refusal of Time – performance transferred to video | |
2013 | The Refusal of Time, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Tide Table – 35mm animated film transferred to video |
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2016 | Triumphs and Laments, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Tevereterno, Rome William Kentridge: More Sweetly Play the Dance, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York |
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2017 | Directs Wozzeck (opera by Alban Berg) Salzburg Festival, Austria | |
2018 | The Head & The Load, Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London; Ruhrtriennal, Germany; The Park Avenue, Armory New York | |
2019 | William Kentridge, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York |