William Kentridge
1976
Universitätsabschluss in Politologie und Afrikanistik, University of the Witwatersrand
1976-1978
Studium an der Johannesburg Art Foundation
1978-1980
Drucktechnikdozentur an der Johannesburg Art Foundation
1981-1982
Theaterstudium an der École Jacques Lecoq in Paris
Lebt und arbeitet in Johannesburg
Einzelausstellungen
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
2012
William Kentridge: Five Themes, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
William Kentridge: ¿No se unirá usted al baile?, CAC Málaga, Contemporary Art Centre of Málaga, Málaga, Spain
William Kentridge: I am not me, the horse is not mine, Tate Modern, London, UK
2011
William Kentridge: Five Themes, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Other Faces, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
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
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
The Stenersen Museum, Oslo
Haunch of Venison, London
2007
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Hangar Bicocca, Milano
2006
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2005
Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Athina
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2004
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
2003
Augarten Contemporary, Wien
2001
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C.
New Museum of Contemporary Art New York
The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck Berlin, Chicago, New York, Vienna, Cape Town
2000
The Self is Something Else, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Dusseldorf
A Double View: Three Exhibitions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Vertical Painting, P.S.1 New York
Marian Goodman Gallery New York
Stephen Friedman Gallery London
Annandale Galleries Sydney
NSISTENT MEMORY: THE Architecture of Time in Video, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida
La Beaute, Beauty in Fabula, Papal Palace Avignon
1999
Unfinished History, MCA Chicago Chicago
Carnegie International 1999/2000 CI 99:00, Carnegie Museum of Art, awarded the Carnegie Medal Pittsburgh
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Projects 68: William Kentridge, Museum of Modern Art New York
Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels
Kunstverein Munchen Munich
Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig Cologne
A Sangre y Fuego, Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló
The Drawing Centre New York
Museu d'Arte Contemporani de Barcelona Barcelona
Neue Galerie Graz Graz
Serpentine Gallery London
Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels
Kunstverein Munchen Munich
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Museu d'Arte Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona (survey exhibition)
Museum of Modern Art (Project Room), New York: Projects 68
MIT List, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Serpentine Gallery, London (survey exhibition)
Centre de la Vielle Charite, Marseille (survey exhibition)
1998
The Drawing Centre, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
Kunstverein Munchen, Munich (survey exhibition)
1997
Applied Drawings, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
1996
Eidophusikon, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1994
Felix in Exile, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
1993
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles
Drawings for Projection, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, travelling to Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London
1991
Five Gouache Collage Heads, Newtown Galleries, Johannesburg
1990
William Kentridge: Drawings and Graphics, Cassirer Fine Art and Gallery on the Market, Johannesburg1989
Responsible Hedonism, Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London
1988
Cassirer Fine Art, Johannesburg
1987
In the Heart of the Beast, Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London
Standard Bank Young Artist Award; associated exhibition in Grahamstown touring nationally
Market Theatre Award for New Visions exhibition
AA Vita Award for William Kentridge, at Cassirer Fine Art, 1985
Cassirer Fine Art, Johannesburg
South African Arts Association, Pretoria
1985
Cassirer Fine Art, Johannesburg
1981
Domestic Scenes, The Market Gallery, Johannesburg
1979
Exhibition, The Market Gallery, Johannesburg
Gruppenausstellungen
2000
Third Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
1999
Istanbul Biennale: The Passion and the Wave, Istanbul
La Memoire (1999 phase of La Ville, Le Jardin, La Memoire), Academie de France a Rome, Villa Medici, Rome Act 1, (1999 phase of Act 1, Act 2, Act 3), Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen
48th International Venice Biennale: d'APERTutto, Giardini di Castello and the Arsenale, Venice
Unfinished History, MCA Chicago, Chicago
1998
Vertical Time, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Nominee for Hugo Boss Prize, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (Soho), New York
Shoot at the Chaos, SPIRAL / Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo
Breaking Ground, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo
Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Cinca Continentes y Una Cuidad, Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico City
1997
Sexta Bienal de la Habana El Individuo y su Memoria
Città/Nattura: Mostra Internazionale di Arte Contemporanea, Villa Mazzante, Rome
Documenta X, Museum Fredericianum, Kassel
Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions, Site Santa Fé, New Mexico
2nd Johannesburg Biennale Trade Routes: History and Geography
Les Arts de la Résistance: Fin de Siécle, Johannesburg, Galerie Michel Luneau, NantesDelta, ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville Paris, Paris
UBU ±101, collaborative exhibition with Deborah Bell and Robert Hodgins, Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown
1996
Simunye: We Are One, Adelson Galleries, New York
Faultlines, The Castle, Cape Town
10th Sydney Biennale Jurassic Technologies Revenant
Ici et Ailleurs, film section within Inklusion-Exklusion, Graz
Don't Mess with Mr Inbetween, Culturgest, Lisbon
Campo 6: The Spiral Village, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Colours: Art from South Africa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
1995
Africus 1st Johannesburg Biennale: Memory and Geography, collaboration with Doris Bloom
Memory and Geography, collaboration with Doris Bloom, Stefania Miscetti Gallery, Rome
Panoramas of Passage: Changing Landscapes of South Africa, touring USA and South Africa
Mayibuye iAfrika, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
On the Road, Delfina Studio Trust, London
4th Istanbul Biennale Kentridge exhibition Eidophusikon
1994
Trackings: History as Memory, Document and Object, Art First, London
Displacements, Block Gallery, North Western University, Chicago
Spacex Gallery, University of Exeter, UK
1993
Easing the Passing of the Hours, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
45th Venice Biennale South African group exhibition, In Croc Del Sud
1991
Little Morals, collaboration with Deborah Bell and Robert Hodgins, Taking Liberties Gallery, Durban
1990
Art from South Africa, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, touring UK
1988
African Encounters, Dome Gallery, New York, touring to Washington DC
1984
Hogarth in Johannesburg, collaboration with Deborah Bell and Robert Hodgins, Cassirer Fine Art, Johannesburg, touring nationally
1986
But this is the Reality, The Market Gallery, Johannesburg
1985
Cape Town Triennal '85, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Tributaries, Market Theatre precinct; touring Germany
Publikationen
* Michael Godby, Robert Hodgins, William Kentridge and Deborah Bell: Hogarth in Johannesburg, Witwatersrand, University Press, Johannesburg, 1990
* Michael Godby, 'William Kentridge: Four Animated Films', in William Kentridge: Drawings for Projection, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 1992 (catalogue)
* 4th International Biennale of Istanbul, The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, 1995 (catalogue)
* Sue Williamson, Ashraf Jamal, Art in South Africa: The Future Present, David Philip, Cape Town/Johannesburg, 1996
* Delta, ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 1997 (catalogue)
* Catherine David and Jean-François Chevrier, Politics -Poetics documenta X the book, Museum Fredericianum, Kassel, Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997 (catalogue)
* Rory Doepel, Ubu ±101: William Kentridge, Robert Hodgins, Deborah Bell, Observatory Museum, Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown, 1997 (catalogue)
* Jurassic Technologies Revenant, 10th Sydney Biennale 1997, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 1997 (catalogue)
* Sexta Bienal de Habana: el individuo y su memoria, Centro Wilfredo Lam, Havana, 1997 (catalogue)
* Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions, Site Santa Fé, New Mexico, 1997 (catalogue)
* Michael Godby, 'William Kentridge's History of the Main Complaint: Narrative, Memory, Truth', in Sarah Nuttal and Carli Coetzee, Negotiating the Past: the Making of Memory in South Africa, Oxford University Press, Cape Town, 1998
* Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, William Kentridge, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, 1998 (catalogue)