Zwelethu Mthethwa
Zwelethu Mthethwa (* 1960 in Durban ) is a South African photographer and painter. He lives in Cape Town .
Zwelethu Mthethwa studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town and, thanks to a Fulbright scholarship, at the Rochester Institute of Technology . There he obtained a Masters in Imaging Arts in 1989. From 1994 to 2000 he taught at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town. He became internationally known for his color photographs, which document the life of the residents in the townships .
From June 2015 Mthethwa had to answer for murder in court. He was accused of kicking a 23-year-old prostitute to death in the Cape Town borough of Woodstock in 2013. He was convicted in 2017 and has since served a sentence in Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 2003 Association For Visual Arts, Cape Town
- Interior portraits: Zwelethu Mthethwa photographs, Cleveland Museum, Ohio, USA.
- 2002 Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis , Missouri - USA
- 2001 Center National de la Photographie, Paris
- 2000 Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
- 1991 African Arts Center, Durban
- SA Association of Arts, Cape Town
- 1987 College Union, Rochester Institute of Technology
- 1986 SA Association of Arts, Cape Town
Group exhibitions (selection)
- 2005 51st Biennale , Venice
- Emergencies, Museo de Arte Contemporeneo de Castilla y Leon (MUSAC), León ( Spain )
- New Work / New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art , New York
- 2004–2005 Biennale, Prague
- Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- 2004 Passaporto, Le Meridien Lingotto Art & Tech, Turin
- New Identities. Contemporary South African Art, Museum Bochum
- Africa Remix, museum kunst palast , Düsseldorf , Hayward Gallery, London 2005, Center Georges Pompidou , Paris 2005, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo , 2006, Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2006
- 26th Bienal de Sao Paulo
- 5. African Photography Encounters in Bamako , Mali
- 2003 Strangers. Photography Triennale, International Center for Photography, New York
- 2002 In Situ: Portraits of People at Home. Photographs by Taylor Dabney , Tom Hunter and Zwelethu Mthethwa. Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond , Virginia
- Centro Cultural de Maia, Porto , Portugal
- Shopping: Art and Consumer Culture, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt , Tate Liverpool
- Videoarte Africana, 25th Bienal de Sao Paulo
- The Short Century, Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945–1994, Museum Villa Stuck , Munich , House of World Cultures , Berlin , Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago , PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art , New York
- Africa Today: The Artist and the City, Center de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona
- TRADE - Wares, ways and values in world trade today, Fotomuseum Winterthur , Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
- Dis / location, PhotoEspana 2001, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid , Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
- 1998 Africa by Africa, Barbican Art Gallery, London
- 1995 Johannesburg Biennal, Johannesburg
- SA Association of Arts-3 Person Show, Cape Town
- 1986 SA Association of Arts, Cape Town
- Elisabeth Sneddon Theater, University of Natal , Durban
- 1985 Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town, Cape Town
Works in public collections
- museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf
- Art Gallery Durban
- Hamburger Kunsthalle
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University , Ithaca , NY
- Johannesburg Art Gallery
- South African National Gallery, Cape Town
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León (Spain)
- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Samuel Harn Museum, Miami
- Guggenheim Museum , New York
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- New Museum, New York
- The Studio Museum in Harlem , New York
- Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg
- Pretoria Art Museum
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Moderna Museet, Stockholm
- The Corcoran Museum Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- Smithsonian Museum , Washington DC
- Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation , Vienna
Individual evidence
- ↑ report at artnet.com (English), accessed on June 12, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mthethwa, Zwelethu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Durban , South Africa |