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Mikhael Subotzky

(South African, born 1981)

Mikhael Subotzky

Beaufort West Prison, Jaco, Beaufort West, South Africa, 2006

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Mikhael Subotzky

Hout Bay South Africa, Cape Town, 2005

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Mikhael Subotzky

Sticky-Tape Transfer 64 - Jacaranda | Hermanus, 2023

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Biography

Timeline

1981: Born in Cape Town, South Africa
2001 - 2004: Listed on the Dean’s merit lists every year, class medals, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
2004: Brett Kebble Art Awards at the Cape Town International Conference Centre, Finalist, Cape Town, South Africa
: Winner of the Michaelis Prize and the Simon Girson Prize
: Winner of the 2004 Golden Key Scholarship for photography
2005 - 2006: Brett Kebble Art Awards
2005: Special Juror’s Prize at the VIes Recontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali, Winner
: Merit Award winner at the ABSA L’Atalier Competition, South Africa
2006: F25 Award for Concerned Photography, Fabrica, Italy, Winner
2007: City of Perpignan Young Photographer Award, Perpignan, France, Winner
: KLM Paul Huff Award, Amsterdam, Winner
2008: W. Eugene Smith Grant
: ICP Young Photographer Infinity Award
: City of Perpignan Young Reporter Award
2009: Lou Stoumen Prize

Exhibitions

2017: WYE, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
: Please come back. The world as prison?, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Roma
: Magnum Manifesto, International Center for Photography, New York
: Yellow Bile (or Work in Progress), Maitland Institute, Cape Town (solo)
: Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, High Museum of Arte, Atlanta
: Ex Africa, CCBB, Belo Horizonte
: Up to Now. Fabrica Photography, in collaborazione con / in collaboration with Fabrica – Treviso, Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia
: Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona
: Mikhael Subotzky: WYE, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation Sydney, Sydney
2016: New Revolutions: Goodman Gallery at 50, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
: After Eden: Photography from the Walther Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris
2015: Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao
: After Eden: Photography from the Walther Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris56th Venice Biennale: All the World’s Futures, Venezia
: The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art Deutsche Börse: Photography Prize 2015, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
: Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
: The Poetry In Between: South-South / 2015, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
: Other People’s Memories, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
: Contemporary Art / South Africa, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, 2014
: Ponte City (with Patrick Waterhouse), FotoMuseum Antwerpen, Antwerpen (solo)
: Show ‘n Tell, Goodman Gallery Cape Town (solo)
: Ponte City (with Patrick Waterhouse), National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh (solo)
: Contemporary Art from South Africa, State University of North Carolina Museum Appalachia
: 4/30: Goodman Gallery and the Standard Bank Young Artist Award, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown
: Le Mur, La Maison Rouge, Paris
: In Context: The Portrait in Contemporary Photographic Practice, Wellin Museum of Art Art Unlimited, Basel
: Destini/Storie/Vite, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, La Spezia
2014: Junge Sammlungen 02, Museum für moderne Kunst, Weserburg
: Stuff Barta, MAC/VAL - Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris (solo)
: Concrete - Photography and Architecture, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
: Earth Matters, Smithsonian, Washington
: Expo 1: Dark Optimism, MoMA PS1, New York
: A Different Kind of Order, Triennial at the International Center of Photography Triennial, New York
: Magnum Contact Sheets, Forte Di Bard
: My Jo’burg, La Maison Rouge, Paris
: This House in Nouvelles Vagues, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2013: Rencontres Picha Biennale de Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi
: Structures, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
2012: Retinal Shift, Standard Bank Young Artist Award, Touring show at various South African venues (solo)
: The Unexpected Guest, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
: Out of Focus: Photography, The Saatchi Gallery, London
: Photobiennale-2012, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
: Fotográfica Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia
: Highrise – Idea and Reality, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
: The New York Photo Festival, New York, USA
: Arles Discovery Award, Arles, France
: Appropriated Landscapes, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany
: 6th Curitiba Biennial, Curitiba, Brazil
2011: Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2009: Tache – Levy, Brussels, Belgium
2008 - 2009: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky, MoMA, New York, USA (solo)
2008: New Photography 2008, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
: Mikhael Subotzky, HASTED HUNT, New York, USA (solo)
: Giovane arte dal Sudafrica, Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy (solo)
: Studio la Città, Verona, Italy (solo)
: Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
: Contemporary Art Photography from South Africa: Reality Check, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
: Lumo 07 – “Us” – 7th International Photography Triennale, Jyvaskyla, Finland
: The Loaded Lens, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
: NYC Photo, Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, USA
: Bare Life, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
: Beaufort West, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa (solo)
2007: Beaufort West, FOAM (Foto Museum Amsterdam), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
: says the junk in the yard, Flowers East, London, UK
: Die Vier Hoeke, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa (solo)
: New Code, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
: Die Vier Hoeke and Umjiegwana, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (solo)
: Personae & Scenarios – New African Photography, Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
: Snap Judgements: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, curated by O. Enwezor, International Center for Photography, New York, Miami, USA and Mexico City, Mexico
: T1, curated by F. Bonami and C. Christov-Bakargiev, Turin Triennial, Turin, Italy
2006: The Living is Easy, Flowers East Gallery, London, UK
2005: Bamako Biennale, Mali
: Click, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
: Die Vier Hoeke, Nelson Mandela Cell, Pollsmoor Prison, Cape Town, South Africa (solo)
: Vyf Kurators, Vyftien Kunstenaars (Five Curators, Fifteen Artists), The Klein Karoo Nasianale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
: Tracey Snelling and Jeff McMillan, curated by H. Snyder, Stray Show, Chicago, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, USA
: Epic, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA
: Domicile, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA
2004: Last Picture Show, Stephen Cophen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
: Another Shocking Psychological Thriller, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, Photo NY, Photo SF
: Cut, Copy and Paste, The Art of Contemporary Collage, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, USA
2003: Sculpture and Photography, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, USA
: Sculpture/Structure, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, USA
: ...A Room for the Night (Dwellings), Night Moves, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, USA
: Benefit Auction for Big Ballyhoo, The Lab, San Francisco, USA
: Landing, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA
: Introductions, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, USA
: Sideshow Spectacular, Liminal Gallery, Oakland, USA
: New Acquisitions 2002, Microsoft Art Collection, Microsoft, Redmond, USA
: Inspiring Narratives: A Group Show, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2002: Dwellings, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, USA
: Fast Forward Miami, Hotel Nash, Miami, USA

Public Collections

: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: South African National Gallery, Cape Town
: Johannesburg Art Gallery
: FOAM (FotoMuseum Amsterdam)

Literature

2008: Beaufort West, Chris Boot

Mikhael Subotzky

(South African, born 1981)

Mikhael Subotzky

Mikhael Subotzky

Mikhael Subotzky

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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