Robin Rhode

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  • Born 1976 in Cape Town, South Africa
  • Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

EDUCATION

2000

  • South African School of Film, Television and Dramatic Arts, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • 1995 - 1998 Department of Fine Art, Witwatersrand Technikon

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012

  • Imaginary Exhibition, L & M Arts, Los Angeles
2011

  • Robin Rhode: Variants, White Cube, London

2010

  • Robin Rhode, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2009

  • Robin Rhode: Catch Air, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH.

2008

  • Who Saw Who, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
  • Through the Gate, White Cube, London, UK
  • Promenade Galleria Tucci Russo, Turin, Italy

2007

  • Walk Off, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
  • Robin Rhode, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY

2006

  • Robin Rhode, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • The Storyteller, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France
  • The Storyteller, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany

2005

  • Street Smart, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL

2004

  • Robin Rhode, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
  • The Score, Artists Space, New York, NY
  • The Animators, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2000

  • Fresh, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Living in Public, Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012

  • Prism: Drawing from 1990 to 2012, National Museum of Norway – Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
2011

  • Streetlife and Homestories, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
  • Blink! Light, Sound & the Moving Image, Denver Art Museum, Denver
  • 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland
  • Things are Queer – Highlights der Sammlung UniCredit, Marta Herford, Herford
  • Echoes, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
  • FotoSkulptur: Die Fotografie der Skulptur, von 1839 bis heute, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
  • Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York

2010

  • The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture from 1839 to the present, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • The Dissolve, SITE Sante Fe Eighth Biennale, New Mexico
  • Street and Studio, from Basquiat to Seripop, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
  • Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London More of an Activity: the artist as choreographer, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
  • The Bearable Lightness of Being 2, The Metaphor of the Space, Venice Biennale of Architecture 2010, Venice
  • In Context, Arts on Main, Johannesburg
  • 1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
  • Darkroom: photography and new media in South Africa since 1950, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Visual Arts Center, Richmond; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham
  • Video Art: Replay Part II: Everyday Imaginary, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia
  • Choreographing You: Fifty years of Art and Dance, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; The Hayward Gallery, London
  • Framed, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis

2009

  • Being in the World: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Cisneros Collection, Miami, FL
  • Dada South, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
  • 30 Seconds Off an Inch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
  • Intimate Geographies, Curated by Daniele Tilkin,
  • Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain
  • The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection, Part I,
  • Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
  • Silent Writings, Espace Cultural Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
  • Animated Painting, Faulconer Gallery at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. Feb - April; and, El Cubo at Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico. June - October.

2008

  • VideoStudio Series: Psychogeography, The Studio Museum in Harlem,
  • New York, NY
  • Prospect.1 New Orleans, The New Orleans Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA
  • Street Art, Street Life, Bronx Museum Bronx, New York, NY
  • Walls in the Street, Siemens Art Program, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshorn Museum, Washington, DC
  • Art Focus International Contemporary Arts Biennale, curated by Bernard Blistène and Ami Barak, Jeruselem, Israel
  • The Morning After: Videoworks from the Goetz Collection, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
  • Geopoliticas de la Animación, MARCO Vigo, Spain
  • Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical in Art Since 1945, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
  • Stray Alchemists: Robin Rhode, Sterling Ruby, Matt Bryans, Amy Granat and Takeshi Murata, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
  • Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova, and Robin Rhode, (touring) Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA;
  • Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC;
  • Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
  • For The Love of the Game, Wadsworth, Hartford, CT
  • Robin Rhode, Solo Presentation, Johannesburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa

2007

  • C’est pas du Jeu!, Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault, France
  • e-flux: VIDEO RENTAL, (touring) Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; Centre culturel suisse, Paris, France;
  • Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge MA;
  • Arthouse Texas, Austin, TX, ; Mucsarnok – Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary; KW Berlin, Germany
  • Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
  • An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
  • International Contemporary Art, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL; Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraßa in Bremen 2007, Art Prize, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
  • Cape 07, Cape Town Biennial, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Momentary Momentum: Animated Drawings, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK
  • All About Laughter: The Role of Humour in Contemporary Art,
  • Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2006

  • Dirty Yoga: 2006 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei,Taiwan Venice – Istanbul: Selections from the 51st International Venice Biennale, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Version Animée: Animation in Contemporary Art. Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Street: Behind the Cliché, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Out of Time: A Contemporary View, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • ars viva 05/06 – Identität/Identity, KW Institute for Contemporary Arts, Berlin, Germany
  • Echigo Tsumari Trienniale 2006, Echigo-Tsumari, Japan
  • Human Game: Winners and Losers, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy
  • Empieza el Juego, La Casa Encindida, Madrid, Spain
  • The Beautiful Game: Contemporary Art and Fútbol, BICA, Brooklyn Institute of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
  • Dak’Art, Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal
  • Collection in Context: Gesture, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
  • Contemporary Masterworks: St. Louis Collects, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
  • mima Offsite: Animated Drawing, Middlesborough Institute for Contemporary Art, Middlesborough, UK
  • Personal Affects: Power & Poetics in Contemporary South African Art, Contemporary Museum Honolulu, HI
  • biennale cuvée: World Selection of Contemporary Art, O.K. Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria

2005

  • Hidden Rhythms, Museum Het Valkhof & Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • New Photography ‘05, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • Sounds like Drawing, The Drawing Room, London, UK
  • Sculpture in a Non-Objective Way (S.N.O.W.), Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporaneo, Torre Pelice, Italy
  • ars viva 05/06 Identität/Identity, Kunthalle Rostock, Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, Berlin, Germany
  • Art Circus, Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
  • Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video, Miami Art Central, Miami, FL
  • The Experience of Art, Italian Pavilion, 51st International Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  • I Still Believe in Miracles/Drawing Space (part 1) Musée ďArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ ARC, Paris, France
  • Attention a la marche (histories de getes), La Galerie, The Art Center of Noisy-Le-Sec, Paris, France
  • Tres Escenarios, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain
  • How Latitudes Become Forms, Museum of Modern Art, Monterrey Mexico
  • Upon Further Review; Looking at Sports in Contemporary Art, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY

2004

  • Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Dedicated to a Proposition, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
  • How Latitudes Become Forms, (touring) Museo Tamayo Arte Comtemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
  • Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art, Museum for African Art, Long Island City, NY and The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY
  • Adaptive Behavior, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY,
  • MINE(D)FIELDS, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland and Stadtgalerie Bern, Switzerland
  • Tremor. Contemporary South African Art, Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
  • Things you Don’t Know 2, Home Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Schizorama, National Centre for Contemporary Art (NCAA), Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
  • BUSTED: New Works by Felipe Dulzaides and Robin Rhode, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

2003

Making Space, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey

  • How Latitudes Become Forms, (touring) Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per L’Art, Turin, Italy; Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
  • Things You Don’t Know 2, Gallery K & S, Berlin, Germany
  • Coexistence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, MA,
  • Intersection, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2002

  • Survivre á l’apartheid: De Drum Magazine á Aujourd’hui, Musée Maison Europénne de la Photographie and Le Studio – Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
  • Playtime: Video Art and Identity in South Africa, Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Dislocation, Image and Identity in South Africa, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
  • Shelf Life, Spike Island, Bristol, UK

2001

  • Shelf Life, Gasworks Gallery, London, UK
  • FNB Vita Art Prize, NSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa
  • Tour Guides of the Inner City, Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Switch On/Off, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
  • Light Sculptures, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
  • Juncture, The Granary, Cape Town, South Africa; Studio Voltaire, London, UK

2000

  • Pulse: Open Circuit, NSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa

1999

  • Babel Tower – 70 South African Artists, Johannesburg Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Softserve, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Visions of the Future: The World’s Largest Canvas, Civic Gallery to Sydney Olympic Games, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Personal Concerns, Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Truth Veils: The Inner City, Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Channel: South African Video Art, Association for Video Art (AVA), Cape Town, South Africa
  • Unplugged IV, Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa

1998

  • Human Rights Day Exhibition, Hillbrow Fort, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Technikon Witwaterstrand Final Year Exhibition,
  • Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa