Solo Exhibitions

• 2026 Zanele Muholi, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden
  Zanele Muholi, Foto Arsenal Wien, Vienna, Austria
  Zanele Muholi, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio, Brazil
  Zanele Muholi, Foto Arsenale, Vienna, Austria
• 2025 Zanele Muholi: Courageous Beauty, Instituto Moreira Salles, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  Zanele Muholi, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
• 2024 Zanele Muholi: Eye Me, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
  Zanele Muholi, Tate Modern, London, UK
• 2023 Zanele Muholi, engelhorn Mode im Quadrat, Mannheim, Germany
  Zanele Muholi, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
  Zanele Muholi, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
  MUHOLI: A Visual Activist, Museo delle Culture, Milan, Italy
• 2022 Zanele Muholi, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
  Zanele Muholi, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Being Muholi: Portraits as Resistance, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
• 2021 Zanele Muholi, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
  Zazise, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
  Awe Maaah!, Yancey Richardson, New York
  Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness, Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL
  Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
  Zanele Muholi, Stevenson, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
• 2020 Zanele Muholi, Tate Modern, London, UK
  And Then You See Yourself, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
  Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African
  American Art, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
• 2019 Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
  Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness, Colby College Museum of Art, Maine, USA
  Faces and Phases 13, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2018 Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Georgia,
  US
  Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
  Somnyama Ngonyama, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
  Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lionness, Museo de Arte moderno de Buenos Aires,
  Argentina
  Zanele Muholi, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
• 2017 Zanele Muholi, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  Homecoming, Durban Art Gallery, Durban South Africa
  Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness, Reid Gallery at Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
  Faces and Phases 11, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
  Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Autograph ABP, London
  Documenting Identity, Teaching Activism, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, Vermont, USA
  Somnyama Ngonyama, Maitland Institute, Cape Town
  Somnyama Ngonyama, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
  Faces and Phases, Sewanee University Art Gallery, Tennessee, USA
• 2016 Zanele Muholi: Personae, National Underground Railroad, FotoFocus, Freedom Center,
  Cincinnati, Ohio
  Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Centre do Cultura Contemporania de
  Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  Mina/Meg, Kulturhistorek Museum, Oslo, Norway
  Somnyama Ngonyama, National Arts Festival, Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa
  Somnyama Ngonyama/Systematically Open?, Parc des Ateliers, LUMA Foundation, Arles,
  France
  African Art Against the State, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
  Zinathi, Gallatin Galleries, New York University
  Somnyama Ngonyama, Standard Bank Gallery, Albany Museum, National Arts Festival,
  Grahamstown, NY
  LGBTI: Recesses of the Heart. The Photographs of Zanele Muholi, Kimura Gallery, University of
  Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK
• 2015 Somnyama Ngonyama, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Somnyama Ngonyama, Yancey Richardson, New York, NY
  Zanele Muholi: Vukani/Rise, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
  Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence, Brooklyn Museum, New York
  The Visual Art of Activism, Akershus Kunstsenter, Norway
• 2014 Faces and Phases, EinsteinHaus, Ulm, Germany
  fo(u)nd, The O.P.E.N., Singapore International Festival of Arts, Singapore
  Zanele Muholi: Faces and Phases, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada
  Zanele Muholi. Photography, Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
  Faces and Phases, 6th edition Massimadi Festival, Montreal, Canada
  Of Love & Loss, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Zanele Muholi, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
  Selected FACES & PHASES and BEULAHS, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
• 2013 Fragments of a New History, Porte 44 – MC2a and l’Arrêt sur l’Image gallery, Bordeaux, France
  Beauty & Shadow, atria, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  f(o)und, Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Faces and Phases, Palazzo S Agostino, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy
  Faces and Phases, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA
  ContemporaryVisual ARTIvist, Palermo Pride; Cagliari Pride, Italy
  Mo(u)rning, Walker Street gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• 2012 Faces and Phases, Oldenburg, Germany; Goethe Institut, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Visual ARTivist, Bologna Lesbian Film Festival; Florence Queer Film Festival, Italy
  Mo(u)rning, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  Foot for Love, Espace Canopy, Paris, France
• 2011 Fragments of a New History, Casa Africa, Las Palmas, Spain
  Inkanyiso, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
  What don’t you see when you look at me?, Extraspazio, Rome, Italy
• 2010 Indawo Yami, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  Faces and Phases, Fred, London, United Kingdom
• 2009 Faces and Phases, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Like a Virgin, CCA Lagos, Nigeria
• 2008 Manje, Le Case d’Arte, Milan, Italy
• 2007 Being, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
• 2006 Vienna Kunsthalle project space, Vienna, Austria
  Only half the picture, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  Only half the picture, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Only half the picture, Galerie 32-34, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  So Where To Now, Afrovibes and Galeries 32-34, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 2004 Visual Sexuality, as part of Urban Life (Market Photo Workshop exhibition), Johannesburg Art

Group Exhibitions (selection)

• 2026 Queer Constellations: Photographs from the Aronowitz Family Collection, Columbus Museum of
  Art, Columbus, OH
  Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self, Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, Boston,
  MA
  Big Tent, FotoFocus, Cincinatti, OH
  Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art,
  Washington, D.C.
• 2025 Queer Lens: A History of Photography, Getty Center, Los Angeles, US
  The Kaleidoscopic: Writing Histories Through the Collection, Bass Museum, Miami, FL
  Celebrating 30 Years, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
  Language and Image: Conceptual and Performance-based Photography from the Jorge M. Pérez
  Collection, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
  Veneradas y Temidas: El poder femenino en el arte y las creencias, CaixaForum Zaragoza,
  Zaragoza, Spain; CaixaForum Valencia, Valencia, Spain
  Transcendence: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy, Art Galleries at Black Studies, UT Austin,
  Austin, TX
  Coming into Focus: A Snapshot of Photography, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University,
  Durham, NC
  Corps et Âmes, Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, Paris, France
  Empowerment Art & Feminisms, Goethe-Institut, Mumbai, India
  Empowerment Art & Feminisms, Goethe-Institut, New Delhi, India
  Empowerment Art & Feminisms, Goethe-Institut, Kolkata, India
  Empowerment Art & Feminisms, Goethe-Institut, Colombo, Sri Lanka
  Momento | Photography, Interrupted, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Invisible Race, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
  We, the People: 30 Years of Democracy in South Africa, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South
  Africa
  Magical Women, Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, Germany
  In the Life: Black Queerness––Looking Back, Moving Forward, at the CARR Center and
  presented by Mighty Real/Queer Detroit, Detroit, MI
• 2024 Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
  Los Angeles, CA
  Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the art of Protest, South London Gallery,
  London, UK
  Photography Real and Imagined, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  Afro-Atlantic Histories, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
  Dawn of Humanity: Art in Periods of Upheaval, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  Corps à corps: Histoire(s) de la photographie, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  This is Me, This is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection, Museum Brandhorst, Munich,
  Germany
  Turning the Page, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
  Veneradas y Temidas: El poder femenino en el arte y las creencias, CaixaForum Madrid,
  Madrid, Spain; CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; CaixaForum Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain;
  CaixaForum Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
  Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection, Victoria and
  Albert Museum, London, UK
  The VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna, Celebrates Its Twentieth Anniversary, Albertina Museum,
  Wien, Austria
  RE]POSE: Leisure Bodies and Empowered Postures, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
  New Directions: Recent Acquisitions, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
• 2023 Facing Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives, Brampton, ON,
  Canada
  Black Venus, Fotografiska, New York, NY
  Museu de l’art Prohibit, Barcelona, Spain
  La Cinquième Saison (The Fifth Season), Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France
  Love & Anarchy, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
  Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
  Africa Fashion, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
  Black Venus: Reclaiming Black Women in Visual Culture, Somerset House, London, UK
  Youth vs. Crisis: A Generation in Search of a Future, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
  A Gateway to Possible Worlds, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
  Coyote Park: I Love You Like Mirrors Do, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
  Trace – Formations of Likeness: Photography and Video from The Walther Collection, Haus der
  Kunst, Munich, Germany
  Lente Africana; fotografia subsahariana de la colleción del Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX,
  USA
  Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia, Bogotá, Colombia
  Nudes – Art from the Tate, LWL Museum for Art and Culture, Münster, Germany
  Photography Real and Imagined, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  Afro-Atlantic Histories, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
  This is Me, This is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection, Museum Brandhorst, Munich,
  Germany
  Dawn of Humanity: Art in Periods of Upheaval, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  Corps à corps: Histoire(s) de la photographie, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  Veneradas y Temidas: El poder femenino en el arte y las creencias, CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid,
  Spain
• 2022 Afro-Atlantic Histories, LACMA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  Afro-Atlantic Histories, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
  Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, ICA Miami, Miami, FL, USA
  A Gateway to Possible Worlds, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
  The Work of Love, the Queer of Labor, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  Facing Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives, Brampton, ON,
  Canada
• 2021 Afro-Atlantic Histories,The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
  Interior Infinite, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  THIS IS NOT AFRICA – UNLEARN WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum,
  Denmark; Red Clay, Ghana
• 2020 Crossing Views, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
  African Cosmologies: Fotofest Biennial 2020, Houston, Texas, USA
  Sydney Biennale 2020, Sydney Australia
  Through an African Lens: Sub-Saharan Photography from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of
  Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
• 2019 Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now, Guggenheim, New York, USA
  The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture, The Ryerson Image
  Center, Toronto, Canada
  African Spirit, Yossi Milo, New York
  Kiss My Genders, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
  Limise, Sakhile & Me, Frankfurt, Germany
  Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art,
  Hartford, CT
  May You Live in Interesting Times, Biennale Arte 2019, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
  Mirrors – The Reflected Self, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, Switzerland
  Ikhono LaseNatali, KwaZulu Natal Society of the Arts, Durban, South Africa
  ULTRAVIOLETA: Didácticas desde los feminismos (ULTRAVIOLET: teachings from feminism),
  Casa de la Mujer, Zargoza, Spain
  Lignes de views – une exposition de légendes (Lines of Lives – an exhibition of legends), Musée
  d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris, France
  Yithi Laba, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Anon, Pop-up Art Place, Cape Town, South Africa
• 2018 Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India
  Recent Histories / Contemporary African Photography and Video Art from The Walther Collection,
  Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  Les uns envers les autres, Galerie Wanted, Paris, France (Amnesty International)
  A Sheet of Paper Can Become a Knife, Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  Zanele Muholi: Faces and Phases, The Charleston Trust, Bloomsbury, UK
  Post-conflict. Reframing a dialogue, GETXOPHOTO International Image Festival, Getxo, Basque
  country, Spain
  Both, and, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  ReSignifications: The Black Mediterranean, Manifesta 12 Collateral Events, Palermo, Italy
  Continental Drift, Cairns Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
  Talisman in the Age of Difference, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
  Queering the Gaze, alpha nova & galerie future, Berlin, Germany
  From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-face Picasso, Past and Present, Montréal Museum of Fine
  Arts, Québec
  Not a Single Story, Nirox Sculpture Park, Johannesburg, South Africa
  In their Own Form, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
  O Triângulo Atlântico, 11th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  Mistaken Identities: Images of Gender and Transformation, The Walther Collection Project
  Space, NY
  Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
  State University, Pennsylvania
  African Art Against the State, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Massachusetts
  Multiple Medium: Photographs from the Collection, Cinncinati Art Museum, Ohio
  Vigilence, Struggle, Pride: Through Her Eyes, Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
  Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Taubman Museum of
  Art, Roanoke, VA
• 2017 The South African Pavillion without Walls, Performa 17, New York
  Traversées Ren@rde, Transpalette Centre d’Art, Bourges, France
  Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgi
  The Photographic I – Other Pictures, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
  Structures of Identity, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
  Madgermanes / Mystery Of Foreign Affairs, Schwerin, Germany
  When the Heavens Meet the Earth: Selected Works from the Sina Jina Collection of
  Contemporary Art, Heong Gallery, Downing College, Cambridge
  A Painting Today, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
  5th Kyotographie International Photography Festival, Kyoto, Japan
  INTIMACY IS POLITICAL. Sex, gender, language, power, Centro Cultural Metropoliano, Quito,
  Ecuador
  THE FACE, A Search for Clues, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
  A Short History of South African Photography, Fotografia Europea 2017: Time maps. Memory,
  archives, future, Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia, Italy
  Rearranging Boundaries, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Victoria, Australia
  Other Side: Art, Object, Self, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at
  Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
  Selected, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
  Over the Rainbow, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles
  If You Were in My Body, FIERMAN, New York
  Another Way of Telling: Women Photographers from the Collection, Levy Gallery, Philadelphia
  Museum of Art
• 2016 Supporting Alternative Visions, Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  Neriri Kiruru Harara, SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
  The Quiet Violence of Dreams, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  The Order of Things, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany
  Hybridizing Earth, Discussing Multitude, Busan Biennale, F1963 (KISWIRE Suyeong factory),
  Busan, South Korea
  Africa Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta,
  USA
  I Love You Sugar Kane, Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis, Mauritius
  Reality of My Surroundings, Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina,
  African Art Against the State, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts,
  Mina/Meg, Kunstplass 10, Kulturhistorisk Museum, Universitetet i Oslo, Norway
  Systematically Open? New forms of production of the contemporary image, LUMA, Parc des
  Ateliers, Arles, France
  Shores Like You, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Contemporary South African Art, Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany
  Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête, Aperture, New York
  Political Intent and Beyond Limit, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Netherlands
  Où poser la tête?, Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis, Mauritius
• 2015 Où poser la tête?, FRAC Réunion, Reunion Island
  After Eden/Après Eden – The Walther Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
  Through Women’s Eyes/Sguardo di Donna, Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy
  Material Matters: New Art from Africa, Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis,
  Mauritius
  DLA Piper Series: Constellations, Tate Liverpool, UK
  Making Africa. A Continent of Contemporary Design, Guggenheim Bibao, Spain
  Album de Familia, Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Looking Woman, Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy
  Malmo Fotobiennale, Fotogalleri Vasli Souza, Sweden
  Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York,
  Beadwork, Art and the Body: Dilo Tše Dintši/Abundance, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg
  Album de Familia, Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  The Film Will Always Be You: South African Artists On Screen, Tate Modern, London
  History, Art, Architecture and Design: 80s to Today, Pompidou Centre, Paris
  Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, The Photographers Gallery, London; Museum of Modern
  Art (MMK), Frankfurt
  The Film Will Always Be You: South African Artists On Screen, Tate Modern, London
  Representations of Otherness and Resistance, Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, Bloemfontein,
  South Africa
  Love, Life and Loss, Look 3 Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, Central Virginia
  Homosexuality_ies, The Schwules Museum & the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Germany
  Making Africa: A Contnent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein,
  Germany
  The young contemporary photographers from Africa, Institution Library Mario de Andrade, Sao
  Paulo, Brazil
  The Order of Things: Photography from The Walther Collection, The Walther Collection, Ulm,
  Germany
  Visual Activism, Midsumma Festival, Melbourne, Australia
  Irreverent: A Celebration of Censorship, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New
  York, USA
  The Lesbian Spring Festival, Toulouse, France
  Contemporary Activism, Malmö Foto Biennale, Sweden
  ReSignifications, New York University, Florence, Italy
  Contact, Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy
• 2014 Residual: traces of the black body, New Art Exchange, UK
  The Institute of Sexology, The Wellcome Collection, London
  Classical Nudes and the Making of Queer History, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian
  Art, New York
  SOUTH3: Contemporary Art from Australia, Mexico & South Africa, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
  and Arts Centre, Gymea, Australia
  Looking Back, Zeitz MOCAA Pavilion, Cape Town, South Africa
  XIII edizione: PORTRAIT, Fotografia festival, MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy
  Typology, Taxonomy and Seriality: Photography from The Walther Collection, Les Rencontres
  d’Arles, France
  Exotic symmetric, Les Abattoirs : Museum of Modern Art and Frac Midi-Pyrénées, France
  Queering the International, Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada
  PORT, Queer Arts Festival, Antwerp, Belgium
  Worldwide Africa: Fashioning Personhood, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA
  From Sitting to Selfie: 300 years of South African Portraits, Standard Bank Art Gallery,
  Johannesburg, South Africa
  WHERE WE’RE AT! Other voices on gender, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
  After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and
  Lesbian Art, New York
  Contemporary Art/South Africa, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
  Precarious Imaging: Visibility Surrounding African Queerness, Raw Material Company, Dakar,
  Senegal
  Faces and Phases, Venice and Trento Pride, Palazzo Trentini, Italy
  Haute Africa, Fotofestival, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
  El cuerpo queer, la construcción de la memoria, Arte Actual – FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador
  Public Intimacy: Art and Social Life in South Africa, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San
  Francisco, USA
  Apartheid & After, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Queer and Trans Art-iculations: Collaborative Art for Social Change, Wits Art Museum,
  Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2013 WELT − BILDER 5 / WORLD IMAGES 5, Helmhaus Zu􀀀rich, Switzerland
  Mapping Gender: Bodies & Sexualities in Contemporary Art across the Global South, Jawaharlal
  Nehru University, New Delhi, India
  Worldwide Africa: Fashioning Personhood, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA
  Sharp Sharp Johannesburg, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France
  To be a Lady: an international celebration of women in the arts, Sundaram Tagore Gallery,
  Singapore
  Glyphs: Acts of Inscription, Pitzer College Art Galleries, California, USA
  SubRosa: The Language of Resistance, University of South Florida Contemporary Art
  Museum,Tampa, USA
  worldOutgames III, Galerie Verbeeck – Van Dyck, Anwerp, Belgium
  Transgender Me, Prague Pride, Galerie NTK, Czech Republic
  Transitions – Social Landscape Project, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France
  My Joburg, La Maison Rouge, Paris; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
  I See Rainbows, -kunstplass 5, Oslo, Norway
  Imaginary Fact: South African art and the archive, South African Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale,
  Italy
  Gender Questions, 19 CRAC in Montbéliard, France
  All You Need is Love, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  The Loom of the Land, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2012 Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part II: Contemporary
  Reconfigurations, Walther Collection Project Space, New York, USA
  Position As Desired, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Halifax, Canada
  Love and Africa, Menil Collection, Houston, USA
  Transitions – Social Landscape Project, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
  The Progress of Love, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
  Time, Place and the Camera: Photographs at Work, Kosova Art Gallery, Prishtina, Republic of
  Kosovo
  A Necessary Theatre, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany
  Discovery Award 2012 exhibition, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France
  The Next Generation, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands
  Trans_forming politics/Politicizing Trans, Galerie Funke, Berlin, Germany
  tête-à-tête, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
  Africa: See You, See Me, Nike Art Gallery, Lagos; The National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria
  Face of Our Time: Jacob Aue Sobol, Jim Goldberg, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Schwartz, Richard
  Misrach, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA
  Mine – A selection of films by SA artists, Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre, Dubai, The
  United Arab Emirates
• 2011 What we talk about when we talk about love, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  Photography I: Snapshots of a Generation, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
  Face of Our Time: Jacob Aue Sobol, Jim Goldberg, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Schwartz, Richard
  Misrach, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
  Lesbians Seeing Lesbians, Leslie/Lohman Gallery, New York, USA
  Appropriated Landscapes, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany
  Look 11 Photography Festival, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  Lens: Fractions of Contemporary Photography and Video in South Africa, Stellenbosch University
  Art Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa
  Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African photography, Victoria and Albert Museum,
  London, United Kingdom
  Reflections on the Self: Five African Women Photographers, Royal Festival Hall, London;
  Norwich University College of the Arts Gallery, Norwich; and other venues in the United Kingdom
  Africa: See You, See Me, Fondazione Studio Maragoni, Florence; Officine Fotografiche, Rome,
  Italy
  20 Years Thami Mnyele Foundation, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Africa.es 7 miradas africanas sobre espana, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
  Mine – A selection of films by SA artists, Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Germany
• 2010 Summer 2010/11, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  PEEKABOO – Current South Africa, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
  Africa: See Me, See You, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
  Uprooting the Gaze: Foreign places familiar patterns, Fringe exhibition, Brighton Photo Biennial,
  United Kingdom
  Position as Desired – Exploring African Canadian Identity: Photographs from the Wedge
  Collection, ROM, Toronto, Canada
  Afrovibes festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen,
  Germany
  This is Our Time, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  After A, Photo Notes on South Africa, Atri Reportage Festival, Italy
  …for those who live in it: Pop culture, politics and strong voices, MU Eindhoven, The
  Netherlands
  Halakasha!, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Mosaïque de photos, Chartres, France
  Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales
  1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town,
  South Africa
  I am not afraid: The Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South
  Africa
  Swallow My Pride, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
  In Between, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA
• 2009 A Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art, Djanogly Gallery,
  Nottingham, UK
  Domestic, GoetheonMain, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Innovative Women, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Undercover: Performing and transforming black female identities, Spelman College Museum of
  Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  Rebelle: Kunst & Feminisme 1969-2009, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands
  Museion Collection: Presentation of the new acquisitions, Museum of Modern and Contemporary
  Art of Bolzano, Italy
  Gender, (Trans) Gender and (De) Gendered, a special project of the Havana Biennale, Cuba
  I bought me a cat, MiCamera, Milan, Italy
  Les Rencontres de Bamako Biennial of African Photography, Mali
• 2008 Summer 2008/9: Projects, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  Make Art/Stop AIDS, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
  I am not afraid. The Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz,
  Austria
  Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Hood Museum,
  Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and other venues in the US
  .za: giovane arte dal Sudafrica, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
  Perfect Lovers, ArtExtra, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Body Work, Le Case d’Arte, Milan, Italy
• 2007 Summer 2007/8, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  The Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
  Contemporary Art Photography from South Africa 2007: Reality check, Neuer Berliner
  Kunstverein and other venues, Germany
  Cape ’07, Lookout Hill, Khayelitha, Cape Town, South Africa
• 2006 Olvida Quien Soy – Erase me from who I am, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de
  Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
  South African Art Now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  Second to None, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
• 2005 South African art 1848 – now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  A Lesson from History, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
  Subject to Change, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
  Month of Photography, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa
  Erotic Blenders, Toronto, Canada
• 2004 Young Vision 2004, Alliance Française, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Sex en Kultuur festival, Cape Town, South Africa
  Pride Week, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Gender & Visuality Conference, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
  Women Arts Festival: Is Everybody Comfortable? (Market Photo Workshop exhibition), Museum
  Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Urban Life (Market Photo Workshop exhibition), Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg,
  South Africa
• 2003 Women Arts Festival: What Makes A Woman?, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South
  Africa
  Pride Women Arts Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Women Arts Festival, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2002 Women Arts Festival, Pink Loerie Festival, Knysna, South Africa

Awards & Residencies

• 2026 Hasselblad Award Laureate
• 2024 Aspen Arts Fair Artist in Residence
• 2023 Doctor honoris causa, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium
• 2022 International Center of Photography Spotlights Honoree
• 2017 Mbokodo Award – Visual Art
  Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• 2016 International Center of Photography Infinity Award
  Residency at Cassilhaus, North Carolina
• 2015 Shortlisted for the 2015 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
  Light Work residency, Syracuse, New York
• 2014 Residency at La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
• 2013 Fine Prize – Emerging artist, Carnegie International
  Prince Claus Award
  Feather Award – Feather of the Year
  Mbokodo Award – Creative photography
  Index on Censorship – Freedom of Expression art award
  Campaigner of the Year, Glamour magazine
• 2012 Residency at Civitella Ranieri, Italy
  Shortlisted for the Discovery Award, Les Rencontres d’Arles
• 2009 Ida Ely Rubin Artist-in-Residence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Jean-Paul Blachère Award, Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography
  Casa Africa Award for best female photographer, Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African
  photography
  Fanny Ann Eddy accolade by the International Resource Network in Africa (IRN-Africa)
  LGBTI Art & Culture Award
• 2006 BHP Billiton/ Wits University Visual Arts Fellowship
• 2005 Tollman Award
  LGBTI Art & Culture Award

Collections

21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, KY
Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, FL
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Artur Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
Baltimore Museum of Fine Art, Baltimore, MA
Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Collection Majudia, Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC, Canada
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Orlando, FL
Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Fogg Museum of Art, Cambridge, MA
Fondation Blachère, Apt, France
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France
Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Guggenheim, New York, NY
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, IN
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, MA
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Les Abattoirs : Museum of Modern Art and Frac Midi-Pyrénées, France
Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Middlebury College Museum of Fine Art, Middlebury, VT
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee Gay Arts Center, Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, TX
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, QC, Canada
Museuo de L’Art Prohibit, Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art of Arnhem, The Netherlands
Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Italy
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
National Gallery of Art, Ottawa, ON, Canada
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Museum of Mali, Bamako, Mali
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
North Carolina Museum of Art, Chapel Hill, NC
Open Society Foundations
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
Pinault Collection, Paris, France
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History and Culture, Baltimore, MD
Rhode Island School of Design Art Museum, Providence, RI
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Spelman College Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Stanley Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
University Art Collections, Wake Forest University, Winsteon-Salem, NC
University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
University of South Africa Art Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

Publications

• 2024 Zanele Muholi, Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume II, Aperture
• 2018 Zanele Muholi, Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Aperture
• 2014 Zanele Muholi, Faces and Phases 2006-14, Steidl and The Walther Collection
• 2011 Zanele Muholi, African Women Photographers #1, Casa Africa and La Fábrica
• 2010 Zanele Muholi, Faces and Phases, Prestel
• 2006 Zanele Muholi, Only Half the Picture, Michael Stevenson/STE