Zwelethu Mthethwa
BIOGRAPHY
ZWELETHU MTHETHWA (born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 1960) received his BFA from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, a then “whites-only” university he entered under special ministerial consent. In 1989, he earned a master’s degree in imaging arts while on a Fulbright Scholarship to the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. Mthethwa has had over thirty-five international solo exhibitions in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa and Switzerland, and has been featured in numerous prominent group exhibitions, including the 2005 Venice Biennial; Prospect.1 New Orleans, 2008; and Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, which toured internationally.
He is represented internationally by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, and lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
Zwelethu Mthethwa CV
Zwelethu Mthethwa PHOTOGRAPHY
Zwelethu Mthethwa PASTELS
EXHIBITIONS
Zwelethu Mthethwa: New Works, 2011
Zwelethu Mthethwa: Inner Views at Studio Museum, Harlem, 2010
Entre Nous / Between Ourselves / Phakathi Kwethu (Collaboration with Louis Jansen van Vuuren), 2007-2008
PRESS
MAIL & GUARDIAN: Emancipation takes pride of place, February 2011
ART REVIEW Zwelethu Mthethwa: Inner Voices, September 2010
THE DAILY BEAST Zwelethu Mthethwa’s Photographs of Black Africa, August 2010
MODERN PAINTERS REVIEW, August 2010
NEW YORKER REVIEW: On the inside, August 2010
NY FINANCIAL TIMES: Zwelethu Mthethwa, Studio Museum, New York, August 2010
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS REVIEW: Book, exhibit goes deep inside different kind of house, July 2010
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW: Intimate Interiors, Vividly Revealed, July 2010
NEW YORK VILLAGE VOICE: David Goldblatt, Zwelethu Mthethwa, and ‘Retratos Pintados’ Evoke Art’s Subject-Producer Question, July 2010
NEW YORKER Book Review, May 2010
MAIL & GUARDIAN: Mthethwa’s balancing act, April 2010
PUBLICATIONS
Zwelethu Mthethwa- New Works (Exhibition Catalogue, 2011
ZWELETHU MTHETHWA - new monograph from Aperture,2010
MEDIA
IMAGES
Zwelethu Mthethwa featured on Flak Photo, 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31 July, 2010
VIDEO
Zwelethu Mthethwa in conversation with Okwui Enwezor, Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4