Phumzile Khanyile

Last updated

Phumzile Khanyile (born 1991) is a South African photographer, living in Johannesburg. [1] [2] Her series Plastic Crowns is about women's lives and sexual politics. [3] The series has been shown in group exhibitions at the Palace of the Dukes of Cadaval in Evora, Portugal; Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town; and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia; and was a winner of the CAP Prize for Contemporary African Photography,

Contents

Early life and education

Khanyile was born in Tladi, Soweto, South Africa. [4] She studied photography at the Market Photo Workshop from 2013. [5]

Life and work

Plastic Crowns is a series of self-portraits while dressed in her grandmother's clothes, with whom she lives. [6] The series is concerned with the female experience of relations between the sexes, in terms of power. It is "an exploration of shame, and an unpacking of the expectations Khanyile inherited from her grandmother about what it means to be a woman" [7] —"stereotypical ideas of gender, sexual preference and related stigmas and their relevance in contemporary society". [8] It employs a snapshot aesthetic, [9] [10] "as if they're from a private journal", [3] "raw and out-of-focus [. . . ] as much from the family album snapshot as the rough urban glamour of postwar Japanese photography". [11] Plastic Crowns came about through Khanyile spending a lot of time indoors, having been too "scared to leave her house since she was attacked on the streets." [6]

Khanyile and Nkosinathi Khumalo direct the Johannesburg project space Zulu Republik. [11]

Publications

Publications by Khanyile

Publications with contributions by Khanyile

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Awards

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">National Gallery of Victoria</span> Art museum in Melbourne, Australia

The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum.

Candice Breitz is a South African white artist who works primarily in video and photography. She won a 2007 Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize. Her work is often characterized by multi-channel moving image installations, with a focus on the “attention economy” of contemporary media and culture, often represented in the parallelism of the identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures and widespread indifference to global issues. In 2017, she was selected to represent South Africa at the 57th Venice Biennale.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zanele Muholi</span> South African artist and visual activist (born 1972)

Zanele Muholi is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000s, documenting and celebrating the lives of South Africa's Black lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex communities. Muholi is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, explaining that "I'm just human".

Pieter Hugo is a South African photographer who primarily works in portraiture. He lives in Cape Town.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nandipha Mntambo</span> South African artist (born 1982)

Nandipha Mntambo is a South African artist who has become famous for her sculptures, videos and photographs that focus on human female body and identity by using natural, organic materials. Her art style has been self described as eclectic and androgynous. She is best known for her cowhide sculptures that connects the human form to nature.

Santu Mofokeng was a South African news and documentary photographer who worked under the alias Mofokengâ. Mofokeng was a member of the Afrapix collective and won a Prince Claus Award.

Nontsikelelo "Lolo" Veleko is a South African photographer most noted for her depiction of black identity, urbanisation and fashion in post-apartheid South Africa.

Gisèle Wulfsohn was a South African photographer. Wulfsohn was a newspaper, magazine, and freelance photographer specialising on portrait, education, health and gender issues. She was known for documenting various HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns. She died in 2011 from lung cancer.

Mikhael Subotzky is a South African artist based in Johannesburg. His installation, film, video and photographic work have been exhibited widely in museums and galleries, and received awards including the KLM Paul Huf Award, W. Eugene Smith Grant, Oskar Barnack Award and the Discovery Award at Rencontres d'Arles. He has published the books Beaufort West (2008), Retinal Shift (2012) and, with Patrick Waterhouse, Ponte City (2014). Subotzky is a member of Magnum Photos.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Penny Siopis</span> South African artist from Cape Town (born 1953)

Penny Siopis is a South African artist from Cape Town. She was born in Vryburg in the North West province from Greek parents who had moved after inheriting a bakery from Siopis maternal grandfather. Siopis studied Fine Arts at Rhodes University in Makhanda, completing her master's degree in 1976, after which she pursued postgraduate studies at Portsmouth Polytechnic in the United Kingdom. She taught Fine Arts at the Technikon Natal in Durban from 1980 to 1983. In 1984 she took up a lectureship at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. During this time she was also visiting research fellow at the University of Leeds (1992–93) and visiting professor in fine arts at Umeå University in Sweden (2000) as part of an interinstitutional exchange. With an honorary doctorate from Rhodes University, Makhanda – Siopis is currently honorary professor at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jeannette Unite</span> South African artist (born 1964)

Jeannette Unite is a South African artist who has collected oxides, metal salts and residues from mines, heritage and industrial sites to develop paint, pastel and glass recipes for her large scale artworks that reflect on the mining and industrial sites where humanity's contemporary world is manufactured.

Omar Victor Diop is a Senegalese photographer whose conceptually-rich work is exhibited around the world. He lives and works in Dakar and Paris, France.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ruth Seopedi Motau</span> South African photographer

Ruth Seopedi Motau is a South African photographer currently living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa. Motau was the first black female photographer who was employed by a South African newspaper as photo editor. Her photography focuses on social documentary influenced by photojournalism and the marginalisation of black people and communities.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gulshan Khan</span> South African photographer

Gulshan Khan is an independent South African photographer based in Johannesburg. Noted for her photojournalism work focused on social justice identity and human rights development, Khan's work engages in multi-layered themes around the mediatized representations of identities in South Africa which inform her visual practice.

John Fleetwood is a South African photography curator, educator who was from 2002 to 2015 director of Market Photo Workshop and has since 2016 been director of Photo: in Johannesburg.

Lebohang Kganye is a South African visual artist living and working in Johannesburg. Kganye is part of a new generation of contemporary South African artists and photographers born shortly before or after Apartheid ended.

Bongiwe or Bongi Dhlomo-Mautloa, is a Zulu South African printmaker, arts administrator and activist.

The Market Photo Workshop is a school of photography, a gallery, and a project space in Johannesburg, South Africa, founded in 1989 by David Goldblatt. It offers training in visual literacy for neglected and marginalized parts of South African society. Its courses are short foundation and intermediate, as well as longer advanced, and in photojournalism and documentary.

Robert A. Hamblin is a South African-born visual artist, working mainly in photography and paint on paper. The work deals with tensions on the gender and sexuality spectrums of the contemporary human condition. InterseXion, a multidisciplinary exhibition and seven year collaboration with the Sistaaz Hood, a group of South African transgender sex workers, was staged at Iziko South African National Gallery in 2017. His autobiography was published in June 2021.

The Contemporary African Photography Prize, also known as the CAP Prize, is an annual international award given to five photographers for work created on the African continent, or which engages with the African diaspora. It was established in 2012 by Benjamin Füglister, and Until 2016 was named POPCAP.

References

  1. 1 2 "Contemporary African Photography Prize winners announced". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  2. ↑ "Platform Africa". Aperture (227). 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "Sapeurs, self-portraits and silks: African contemporary arts – in pictures". The Guardian. 8 August 2018. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  4. ↑ "When the photographer turns the camera on herself". TimesLIVE . Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  5. 1 2 3 "Phumzile Khanyile: Plastic Crowns". omenkaonline.com. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  6. 1 2 Almino, Elisa Wouk (4 May 2017). "Learning Political Lessons at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  7. 1 2 Stephens, Andrew (4 December 2020). "NGV Triennial gets under the skin with contemporary African visions". The Age. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  8. 1 2 Gosling, Emily (17 December 2020). "Identity and Speculation Are at the Heart of This Brave Australian Triennial". Elephant. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  9. ↑ "Aesthetica Magazine - Celebrating Tradition". Aesthetica Magazine. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  10. ↑ "Our Ten Favorite Pieces at Frieze and Beyond". Vice. 6 October 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  11. 1 2 Farago, Jason (15 April 2020). "Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  12. ↑ "Celebrating the collective consciousness of contemporary African photography". Hero magazine. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  13. ↑ "Photo Workshop Gallery". Artforum . Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  14. ↑ "Plastic Crowns". Market Photo Workshop. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  15. ↑ "Evora Africa: crossing continents". Financial Times. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  16. ↑ "African Passions: Beyond Geography, History and Bodies". Elephant. 31 May 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  17. ↑ "Not the Usual Suspects". Vogue Italia. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  18. ↑ "Living, Breathing Past: 'Not the Usual Suspects' at ISANG". ArtThrob. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  19. ↑ "2015 Gisèle Wulfsohn Mentorship Recipient". Market Photo Workshop. 8 March 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  20. ↑ Blignaut, Charl. "What does the new wave of African photography say about us?". News24. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.