ROBIN RHODE
b. 1976, South AfricaRhode was born in 1976 in Cape Town, and lives in Berlin. Major museum solo exhibitions have taken place at the Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (2020); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in 2019; Museum Haus Konstruktiv in 2018; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel in 2017; S.M.A.K Gent, Belgium and Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm, in 2015; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland in 2014; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, in 2013; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2009); Hayward Gallery, London (2008); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2007); and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Massachusetts in 2004.
Notable group exhibitions include Crossing Night: Regional Identities X Global Context, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, USA (2019); The Street: Where The World Is Made at MAXXI, Rome (2018); Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier at Fondation Louis Vuitton (2017); What remains is tomorrow, the South African Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015); the 12th Havana Biennial, Between the Idea and Experience; Passo a due (Step Two): The Avant-gardes of Motion, Museo MAN, Sardinia, Italy (2014); More Light, Moscow Biennale (2013); the 18th Sydney Biennale, All Our Relations (2012); Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011); The Dissolve, 8th Site Santa Fe Biennale, New Mexico (2010); Prospect.1 New Orleans, 1st New Orleans Biennial (2008); New Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2005); the 51st Venice Biennale (2005); and How Latitudes Become Forms, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and other venues (2003-5).
Rhode is the recipient of the 2018 Zurich Art Prize.
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