WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
(b. 1955, Johannesburg, South Africa. Lives and works in Johannesburg.)
 
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
2017
William Kentridge: Thick Time, Louisiana, Copenhagen, Denmark; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Center for the Less Good Idea Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa
O Sentimental Machine, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris

2016
More Sweetly Play the Dance, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Triumphs, Laments and Other Processions, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy
William Kentridge, Whitechapel Gallery, London
More Sweetly Play the Dance, LUMA Foundation, Arles, France
William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
William Kentridge: More Sweetly Play the Dance, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany.
 
2015
More Sweetly Play the Dance, Marian Goodman Gallery, London
Notes Toward a Model Opera, Ullens Center, Beijing, China
Peripheral Thinking, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Refuse the Hour Performances, Cape Town City Hall, Design Indaba, South Africa; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
The Refusal of Time, Iziko Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
William Kentridge: Fortuna. Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Museo Ampara, Puebla, Mexico
EYE filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lulu, Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Metropolitan Opera, New York
Nose,  Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
Ubu and the Truth Commission, Canadian Stage, Toronto
 
2014
The Refusal of Time & Other Faces, EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Winterreise (by Franz Schubert), Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria
Winterreise (by Franz Schubert) Holland Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Winterreise (by Franz Schubert) Festival Aix-en-Provence
Winterreise (by Franz Schubert) Lincoln Center, New York
Drawing Lessons and Refuse the Hour, SchauspielHaus, Hamburg, Germany
The Refusal of Time, ICA Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
The Refusal of Time, PARASOPHIA: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture, Kyoto, Japan
The Refusal of Time, Perth International Arts Festival, Perth, Australia
Néfertiti Tete-a-Tete, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich
William Kentridge: Fortuna, Museo del Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Colombia; Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin, Colombia
The Refusal of Time, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Ubu & The Truth Commission, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Refusal of Time, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
Paper Music: A Ciné Concert by Philip Miller and William Kentridge, Bargello Museum, Florence, Italy
Winterreise (by Franz Schubert) Lincoln Center, New York
Paper Music: A Ciné Concert by Philip Miller and William Kentridge, Lincoln Center, New York
William Kentridge, Marian Goodman Gallery Project Space, New York
Tapestries, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg
 
2013
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
William Kentridge: Fortuna, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
Refuse the Hour, Festival Quartier d'Ete, Paris; ImpulsTanz Festival, Vienna
Refuse the Hour, ImpulsTanz Festival, Vienna, Austria
Paris Cinema Festival, Paris
Dojima River Biennial, Osaka, Japan

 
RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2017
21, 39, Jeddah Arts, Saudi Arabia
Versus Rodin: bodies across space and time. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Afriques Capitales, La Villette, Paris, France
Frans Masereel and contemporary art: images of resistance, Mu.ZEE-Kunstmuseum aan Zee, Belgium
Art/Afrique, Le nouvel atelier, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

2016
The Hilger Collection. Part 1: Works on Paper and Wood, Hilger Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
Suspended Animation: Moving Images in Print, International Print Center of New York, NY
Café in, MuCem, Marseille, France
William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland: Conversations in Letters and Lines, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2015
Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015, Kyoto, Japan
Flying over the Abyss, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Greece
Venice Biennale, Drawing from Triumphs and Laments Project in the Italian Pavilion
Künstlerräume 02, Weserburg Museum, Bremen, Germany
Fireflies in the Night. Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
William Kentridge, Albrecht Dürer, Double Vision, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin
 
2014
Le Théorème de Néfertiti, Palais des Beaux Arts BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium; Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, München
Incredibly Close: Good Morning Mr. Orwell 2014, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, South Korea
INSOUL, Parallel to the International Festival of Contemporary Animation and Media-Art LINOLEUM 2014, Lavra Art Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
Sweet Dew, Special Project for the 20th Anniversary of the Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea
Memory Palace, CAC Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Fractured Narratives: A Strategy to Engage, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
The Art of Truth: Gandhi and the Aesthetics of Non Violence, The Menil Collection
And the Trees Went Forth to Seek a King, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
 
2013
DEEP FEELINGS. From antiquity to now, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
Le Théorème de Néfertiti, Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), Paris
Paisaje. Revision de un genero (Landscape. A revision of a genre,) Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico
Le Pont,” Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Marseille
Festival Paris Cinema, Forum des images, Paris
 
2012
Documenta (13),Kassel, Germany
ARTandPRESS, ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany (through 2013); Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Thresholds, Liverpool Biennial
Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, International Center of Photography, New York
Video Musics III: Floating Oceans, performance by Alexis Gideon with films by William Kentridge, New Museum, New York