SELECTED
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999
Museu d'Arte Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona (survey exhibition)
Museum of Modern Art (Project Room), New York: Projects 68 MIT
List, Cambridge, Massachusetts Serpentine Gallery, London (survey
exhibition) Centre de la Vielle Charite, Marseille (survey exhibition)
Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria (survey exhibition) Marian
Goodman Gallery,Premiere of Stereoscope,
animated film at the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg South Africa
Paris Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
1998
The Drawing Centre, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, San
Diego Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Palais des Beaux Arts,
Brussels (survey exhibition touring Kunstverein MŸnchen, Munich;
MACBA, Barcelona; Serpentine Gallery, London; Vielle Charite,
Marseille; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz) Kunstverein
Munchen, Munich (survey exhibition)
1997
Applied Drawings, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
1996
Eidophusikon, Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1994
Felix in Exile, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
1993
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles 1992 Drawings for Projection,
Goodman
Gallery, Johannesburg, travelling to Vanessa Devereux
Gallery, London
1991
Five Gouache Collage Heads, Newtown Galleries, Johannesburg
1990 William Kentridge: Drawings and Graphics, Cassirer Fine
Art and Gallery on the Market, Johannesburg 1989 Responsible
Hedonism, Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London
1988
Cassirer Fine Art, Johannesburg
1987
In the Heart of the Beast, Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London
Standard Bank Young Artist Award; associated exhibition in Grahamstown
touring nationally
1984
Market Theatre Award for New Visions exhibition AA Vita Award
for William Kentridge, at Cassirer Fine Art,
1985 Cassirer Fine Art, Johannesburg South African Arts Association,
Pretoria
1985
Cassirer Fine Art, Johannesburg
1981
Domestic Scenes, The Market Gallery, Johannesburg 1979 Exhibition,
The Market Gallery, Johannesburg
SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1999
La Memoire (1999 phase of La Ville, Le Jardin, La Memoire),
Academie de France a Rome, Villa Medici, Rome Act 1, (1999 phase
of Act 1, Act 2, Act 3), Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen 48th International
Venice Biennale: d'APERTutto, Giardini di Castello and the Arsenale,
Venice 6th Istanbul Biennale: The Passion and the Wave, Istanbul
Unfinished History, MCA Chicago, Chicago A Sangre y Fuego /
No Quarter Given, Espai d'art contemporane di Castello, Castello,
Spain Life Cycles, Galerie fŸr Zeitgenšssische Kunst, Leipzig
Tachikawa Arts Festival, Tachikawa, Japan CI:99/00 Carnegie
International 1999/2000 Artery, various art venues, Cape Town
1998
Vertical Time, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Nominee for
Hugo Boss Prize, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (Soho), New York
Shoot at the Chaos, SPIRAL / Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo Breaking
Ground, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York XXIV Bienal de S‹o
Paulo, Sao Paulo Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Cinca Continentes y Una Cuidad, Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico City
1997
Sexta Bienal de la Habana El Individuo y su Memoria Cittˆ/Nattura:
Mostra Internazionale di Arte Contemporanea, Villa Mazzante,
Rome Documenta X, Museum Fredericianum, Kassel Truce:
Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions, Site Santa FŽ,
New Mexico 2nd Johannesburg Biennale Trade Routes: History and
Geography Les Arts de la RŽsistance: Fin de SiŽcle,Johannesburg,
Galerie Michel Luneau, Nantes Delta, ARC MusŽe dÕArt Moderne
de la Ville Paris, Paris UBU ±101, collaborative exhibition
with Deborah Bell and Robert Hodgins, Standard Bank National
Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown
1996
Simunye: We Are One, Adelson Galleries, New York Faultlines,
The Castle, Cape Town 10th Sydney Biennale Jurassic Technologies
Revenant Ici et Ailleurs, film section within Inklusion-Exklusion,
Graz DonÕt Mess with Mr Inbetween, Culturgest, Lisbon Campo
6: The Spiral Village, Galleria Civica dÕArte Moderna e Contemporanea,
Turin Colours: Art from South Africa, Haus der Kulturen der
Welt, Berlin
1995
Africus 1st Johannesburg Biennale: Memory and Geography,
collaboration with Doris Bloom Memory and Geography, collaboration
with Doris Bloom, Stefania Miscetti Gallery, Rome Panoramas
of Passage: Changing Landscapes of South Africa, touring USA
and South Africa Mayibuye iAfrika, Bernard Jacobson Gallery,
London On the Road, Delfina Studio Trust, London 4th Istanbul
Biennale Kentridge exhibition Eidophusikon
1994
Trackings: History as Memory, Document and Object, Art First,
London Displacements, Block Gallery, North Western University,
Chicago Spacex Gallery, University of Exeter, UK
1993
Easing the Passing of the Hours, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
45th Venice Biennale South African group exhibition, In Croc
Del Sud
1991
Little Morals, collaboration with Deborah Bell and Robert Hodgins,
Taking Liberties Gallery, Durban 1990 Art from South Africa,
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, touring UK
1988
African Encounters, Dome Gallery, New York, touring to Washington
DC
1984 Hogarth in Johannesburg, collaboration with Deborah Bell
and Robert Hodgins, Cassirer Fine Art, Johannesburg, touring
nationally
1986
Claes Eklundh, William Kentridge, Thomas Lawson, Simon/Neuman
Galleries, New York But this is the Reality, The Market Gallery,
Johannesburg
1985
Cape Town Triennal Ô85, South African National Gallery, Cape
Town Tributaries, Market Theatre precinct; touring Germany
SELECTED
THEATRE
Theatre productions have been created in association with Handspring
Puppet Company, with animated film backdrops created by, and
directed by William Kentridge.
1998
Il Ritorno dÕUlisse multi-media opera Performances in Brussels,
Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, Zurich
1997
Ubu and the Truth Commission multi-media theatre production
Performances in Weimar, Grahamstown, Avignon, Johannesburg,
Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Romainmotier, Hanover, Rungis, Ludwigsberg,
Nantes, Kristiansand, Neuchatel, Dijon, Erlangen, Munich, New
York Washington, Los Angeles
1995
Faustus in Africa! multi-media theatre production Performances
in Weimar Berlin, Grahamstown, Johannesburg, Zurich, Ludwigsburger,
Munich, Prague, Stuttgart, Hanover, Basel, London, Remscheid,
Gutersloh, Erlangen, Lisbon, Adelaide, Brussels, Bochum, Hanover,
Dijon, Jerusalem, Ellwangen, Hamburg, copenhagen, St Polten,
Polverigi, Avignon, Seville, Marseille, Rome, Tarbes, toulouse,
Strasbourg, Paris, Sochaux, Bourg en Bresse, Chambery
1992
Woyzeck on the Highveld multi-media theatre production Awards
for production, set design and direction Performances in Grahamstown,
Munich, Antwerp, Toronto, Brussels, Stuttgart, Granada, Glasgow,
Bochum, Braunshweig, Berlin, Goteborg, New York, Chicago, Hong
Kong, Adelaide, Wellington, Bogota, Jerusalem, Avignon, and
cities in Scandinavia, France, Belgium, Italy
SELECTED
FILM
1998
ECHO: slide scan bottle, a triptych projection using animated
and documentary material 1997 Ubu Tells the Truth, animated
film WEIGHINGÉ and WANTING; 6Õ20" animated film
1996
Retrospective of animated films, Festival des Dessins AnimŽ,
Brussels Retrospective of animated films, Culturgest, Lisbon
History of the Main Complaint, 5Õ50" animated film
1995
Retrospective of animated films, Annecy International Film Festival,
Annecy
1994
Felix in Exile, 8Õ43" animated film Another Country, animated
music video for Mango Groove; wins Loerie Award Memo, collaborative
animated film including live actor
1993
Retrospective of animated films, Edinburgh International Film
Festival, Edinburgh Sobriety, Obesity and Growing Old shown
at Annecy International Film Festival, Annecy; and subsequently
at MOMA, New York and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1992
Easing the Passing of the Hours, 10Õ computer animated film
collaboration
1991
Mine, 3Õ animated film; wins Weekly Mail Short Film Competition
Sobriety, Obesity and Growing Old, 9Õ animated film; wins Rembrandt
Gold Medal, Cape Town Triennal
1990
Monument, 3Õ animated film; wins Weekly Mail Short Film Competition
Directs T&I, 12Õ video fiction Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City
After Paris shown at ICA, London
1989
Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris, 7Õ animated film
1988 Freedom Square and Back of the Moon, 50Õ co-directed documentary
film 1987 Exhibition, 3Õ animated film
1985
Vetkoek/Fete Galante, 2Õ animated film 1984 Salestalk, 30Õ film
fiction using actors; in 1985 wins Blue Ribbon Award, American
Film Festival, New York
1981
Howl at the Moon, 40Õ co-directed video fiction; in 1982 wins
Red Ribbon Award, American Film Festival, New York