Born
Johannesburg, South Africa, 1955
Education
University Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1973 – 1976
Johannesburg Art Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1976 – 1978
École Jacques LeCoq, Paris, France, 1981 – 1982
Resides
Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Hauser & Wirth, 'William Kentridge. A Natural History of the Studio', New York NY
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 'William Kentridge. The Pull of Gravity', West Bretton, UK
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 'William Kentridge. Listen to the Echo', Dresden, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum Folkwang, 'William Kentridge. Listen to the Echo', Essen, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. To Cross One More Sea', Johannesburg, South Africa
2024
Sharjah Art Foundation, 'William Kentridge. A Shadow of a Shadow', Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
A4 Arts Foundation, 'William Kentridge. History on One Leg', Cape Town, South Africa
Luma Foundation, 'William Kentridge. Je n’attends plus', Arles, France
Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation, 'William Kentridge. Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot', Venice, Italy
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 'William Kentridge', Taipei, Taiwan
Galleria Lia Rumma, 'William Kentridge. Waiting To Forget Something', Naples, Italy
Annandale Galleries, 'William Kentridge. Day Will Break More Than Once', Sydney, Australia
Louisiana Museum, 'William Kentridge. The Refusal of Time', Humlebæk, Denmark
Fundació Sorigué, 'William Kentridge', Lleida, Spain
Museo Picasso, 'William Kentridge. More Sweetly Play the Dance', Málaga, Spain
Arsenal Gallery, 'William Kentridge: I am not me, the horse is not mine', Białystok, Polonia
2023
Museum of Fine Arts, 'William Kentridge. In Praise of Shadows', Houston TX (Travelling Exhibition)
BAMPFA Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 'Orchestrating Time. The Films of William Kentridge', Berkeley CA
Palazzo Branciforte, 'William Kentridge. You Whom I Could Not Save', Palermo, Italy
Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge: What Have They Done with All the Air?', Cape Town, South Africa
Marian Goodman, 'William Kentridge. Selected Prints and Posters', Paris, France
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Oh To Believe in Another World', New York NY
2022
Royal Academy of Arts, 'William Kentridge', London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
The Broad, 'William Kentridge. In Praise of Shadows', Los Angeles CA (Travelling Exhibition)
M.K. Čiurlionis Museum of Art, 'William Kentridge. That Which We Do Not Remember', Kaunas, Lithuania
The Warehouse, 'William Kentridge. See for Yourself', Milwaukee WI
Hauser & Wirth, Tarmak22, 'William Kentridge. Singer Solo', Gstaad, Switzerland
Gstaad Palace, 'William Kentridge. Singer Solo', Gstaad, Switzerland
Hauser & Wirth, 'William Kentridge. Weigh All Tears', Central, Hong Kong
Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Oh To Believe in Another World', London, UK
Villa Carmignac, 'William Kentridge. Ulysses’s Dream', Porquerolles Island, France
Wits Art Museum, 'WJK @ WAM & Wits 100', Johannesburg, South Africa
Australian Galleries, 'William Kentridge. Tapestry, drawing, etching, bronze film', Melbourne, Australia
David Krut Projects, 'William Kentridge. Studio Life Gravures', Johannesburg, South Africa
Orange Regional Gallery, 'William Kentridge. I am not the horse is not mine', Orange, Australia
2021
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, 'From he Studio of William Kentridge.CRRI', Turin, Italy
Certosa and Museo di San Martino, 'William Kentridge. Sibyl', Naples, Italy
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Making Prints, Selected Editions: 1998-2021', New York NY
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Finally Memory Yields', Paris, France
Annandale Galleries, 'William Kentridge. Tapestries', Sydney, Australia
University of Wyoming Art Museum, University of Wyoming, 'William Kentridge. Universal Archive', Laramie WY
MUDAM Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, 'William Kentridge. More Sweetly Play the Dance', Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Griffin Art Projects, 'William Kentridge. The Colander', Vancouver, Canada
2020
Deichtorhallen, 'William Kentridge. Why Should I Hesitate. Putting Drawings to Work', Hamburg, Germany
The Warehouse, 'Storyteller. Works by William Kentridge', Milwaukee WI
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 'William Kentridge. 7 Fragments', Bilbao, Spain
University of Wyoming Art Museum, University of Wyoming, 'William Kentridge. Second-hand Reading', Laramie WY
Antico Arsenale di Amalfi, 'More Sweetly Play the Dance', Amalfi, Italy
Chiesa di San Domenico, 'William Kentridge. Breathe', Alba, Italy
Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. City Deep', Johannesburg, South Africa
Galleria Lia Rumma, 'William Kentridge. Waiting for the Sibyl and Other Histories', Milan, Italy
Centre de Cultura de Contemporània de Barcelona, 'William Kentridge. That Which Is Not Drawn', Barcelona, Spain
Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, 'William Kentridge. Un poème qui n’est pas le nôtre' [William Kentridge. A Poem I Used to Know], Lille, France
2019
EYE Filmmuseum, 'William Kentridge. Ten Drawings for Projection', Amsterdam, Netherlands
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Let Us Try for Once', New York NY
Kunstmuseum Basel, 'William Kentridge. A Poem That Is Not Our Own', Basel, Switzerland
Norval Foundation, 'Why Should I Hesitate: Sculpture', Cape Town, South Africa
Zeitz MOCAA Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, 'Why Should I Hesitate: Putting Drawings to Work', Cape Town, South Africa
AGSA Art Gallery of South Australia, 'William Kentridge. That Which We Do Not Remember', Adelaide, Australia
Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College, 'William Kentridge. Universal Archive', Northfield MN
Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, 'William Kentridge', Paris, France
Cushing Gallery, Newport Art Museum, 'William Kentridge. Stereoscope', Newport RI
2018
Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'That Which We Do Not Remember', Sydney, Australia
Media Art Gallery, Emerson College, 'Triumphs and Laments', Boston MA
Milwaukee Art Museum, 'More Sweetly Play the Dance', Milwaukee WI
The Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, 'William Kentridge. Universal Archive', Philadelphia PA (Travelling Exhibition)
Walsh Gallery, Fairfield University Museum, 'William Kentridge. Universal Archive', Fairfield CT (Travelling Exhibition)
Wexner Centre for the Arts, 'William Kentridge. The Refusal of Time', Columbus OH
Whitworth Art Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Thick Time', Manchester, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, 'O Sentimental Machine', Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2017
Corte Est, OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni / Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, 'Procession of Reparationists' [Processione di riparazionisti], Rivoli, Italy (Permanent Installation)
Galerie Marian Goodman, 'O Sentimental Machine', Paris, France
Goodman Gallery, 'That Which We Do Not Remember', Johannesburg, South Africa
Hilliard Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 'William Kentridge. Journey to the Moon', Lafayette LA
Museum der Moderne, 'William Kentridge. Thick Time', Salzburg, Austria (Travelling Exhibition)
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 'William Kentridge. Thick Time', Humlebaek, Denmark (Travelling Exhibition)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 'William Kentridge. Basta y Sobra' [William Kentridge. Enough and more than enough], Madrid, Spain
Sint Janshospitaal / Musea Bruges, 'William Kentridge. Smoke, Ashes, Fable', Bruges, Belgium
Trout Gallery, University of Dickinson, 'William Kentridge. Universal Archive and Journey to the Moon', Carlisle PA
2016
MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma, 'William Kentridge. Triumphs and Laments', Rome, Italy
Galleria Lia Rumma, 'William Kentridge. Triumphs, Laments and Other Processions', Milan, Italy
Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Notes Towards a Model Opera', Johannesburg, South Africa
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. More Sweetly Play the Dance', New York NY
LUMA Foundation, 'William Kentridge. More Sweetly Play the Dance', Arles, France
Whitechapel Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Thick Time', London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Martin-Gropius-Bau, 'No It Is! William Kentridge', Berlin, Germany
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 'Peripheral Thinking', Seoul, South Korea
SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 'William Kentridge. The Refusal of Time', San Francisco CA
ZKM Center for Art and Media, 'William Kentridge. More Sweetly Play the Dance', Karlsruhe, Germany
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Universal Archive', Fredericton, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, 'William Kentridge. Universal Archive', Hamilton NY (Travelling Exhibition)
2015
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Kupferstichkabinett, 'Double Vision. Albrecht Dürer / William Kentridge', Berlin, Germany
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Drawings for "Lulu"', New York NY
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. More Sweetly Play the Dance', London, UK
Iziko South African National Gallery, 'William Kentridge. The Refusal of Time', Cape Town, South Africa
Johannesburg Art Gallery, 'William Kentridge. The Refusal of Time', Johannesburg, South Africa
Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, 'Notes Towards a Model Opera', Beijing, China
Haus Konstruktiv, 'William Kentridge. The Nose', Zurich, Switzerland
EYE Filmmuseum, 'William Kentridge. If We Ever Get to Heaven', Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museo Amparo, 'Fortuna', Puebla, Mexico
MUAC Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, 'William Kentridge. Fortuna', Mexico City, Mexico
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 'William Kentridge. Peripheral Thinking', Seoul, South Korea
2014
EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, 'William Kentridge. The Refusal of Time & Other Faces', Espoo, Finland
Former Rissei Elementary School / PARASOPHIA Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture / Kyoto Art Centre, 'William Kentridge. The Refusal of Time', Kyoto, Japan
Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Drawings: East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book', Johannesburg, South Africa
ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, 'William Kentridge. The Refusal of Time', Boston MA
Museo Arte de Moderno de Medellín, 'William Kentridge. Fortuna', Medellin, Colombia (Travelling Exhibition)
Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, 'William Kentridge. Fortuna', Bogota, Colombia (Travelling Exhibition)
Perth International Arts Festival / Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 'William Kentridge. The Refusal of Time', Perth, Australia
Wits Art Museum, 'William Kentridge. Tapestries', Johannesburg, South Africa
City Gallery Wellington, 'William Kentridge. The Refusal of Time', Wellington, New Zealand
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge', New York NY
2013
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Second-hand Reading', New York NY
The MET The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'William Kentridge. The Refusal of Time', New York NY
The Met Fifth Avenue, The MET The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'In Praise of Shadows. William Kentridge in the Collection', New York NY
Volte Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Poems I Used to Know', Mumbai, India
Goodman Gallery, 'No, It Is', Cape Town, South Africa
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 'William Kentridge. Fortuna', Sao Paulo, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition)
Fundação Iberê Camargo, 'William Kentridge. Fortuna', Porto Alegre, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition)
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, 'A Universal Archive. William Kentridge as Printmaker', Aberystwyth, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Peninsula Arts, 'A Universal Archive. William Kentridge as Printmaker', Plymouth, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
University Gallery, University of Northumbria, 'A Universal Archive. William Kentridge as Printmaker', Newcastle, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
QUAD, 'A Universal Archive. William Kentridge as Printmaker', Derby, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Midland Arts Center, 'A Universal Archive. William Kentridge as Printmaker', Birmingham, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
2012
Annandale Galleries, 'William Kentridge. Universal Archive (parts 7 – 23)', Sydney, Australia
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 'William Kentridge. Five Themes', Melbourne, Australia
CAC Málaga Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, 'William Kentridge. ¿No se unirá usted al baile?', Malaga, Spain
Chapelle du Miracle / Festival d’Avignon, 'Da Capo', Avignon, France
Instituto Moreira Salles, 'William Kentridge. Fortuna', Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition)
International Centre of Photography, 'Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life', New York NY
MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, 'William Kentridge. Vertical Thinking', Rome, Italy
MCA Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 'MCA DNA. William Kentridge', Chicago IL
Tate Modern, 'William Kentridge. I am not me, the horse is not mine', London, UK
The Blue Coat, 'A Universal Archive. William Kentridge as Printmaker', Liverpool, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
2011
Atelier Cézanne, 'Chostakovitch', Aix-en-Provence, France
Cité du Livre, 'I am not me, the horse is not mine', Aix-en-Provence, France
GCCC Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, 'William Kentridge. Five Themes', Moscow, Russia
Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Other Faces', Johannesburg, South Africa
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Other Faces', New York NY
Le Laboratoire, 'La Negation du Temps – Prologue', Paris, France
Galleria Lia Rumma, 'William Kentridge', Milan, Italy
Seagull Editions, 'William Kentridge', Calcutta, India
MFAB Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, 'William Kentridge in the Museum of Fine Arts', Budapest, Hungary
Saint Louis Art Museum, 'Visual Musing. Prints by William Kentridge', Saint Louis MO
Stedelijk Museum, 'William Kentridge: Five Themes', Amsterdam, Netherlands (Travelling Exhibition)
Vancouver Art Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Five Themes', Vancouver, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
Israel Museum, 'William Kentridge. Five Themes', Jerusalem, Israel (Travelling Exhibition)
2010
Albertina, 'William Kentridge. Five Themes', Vienna, Austria (Travelling Exhibition)
Jeu de Paume, 'William Kentridge. Five Themes', Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition)
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, 'William Kentridge. Five Themes', New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Norton Museum of Art, 'William Kentridge. Five Themes', West Palm Beach FL (Travelling Exhibition)
Galerie Marian Goodman, 'William Kentridge. Breathe, Dissolve, Return', Paris, France
Musée du Louvre, 'William Kentridge. Carnets d’Egypte', Paris, France
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, 'William Kentridge. Ambivalent Affinities', Champaign IL
National Museum of Modern Art, 'William Kentridge. What We See & What We Know', Tokyo, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 'William Kentridge. What We See & What We Know', Hiroshima, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera, 'Ad Hoc. Works for The Nose', New York NY
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado College, 'William Kentridge. The World is Process', Colorado Springs CO
Jewish Museum, 'South Africa Projections. Films by William Kentridge', New York NY
2009
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, 'William Kentridge', Seattle WA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 'William Kentridge. Five Themes', Fort Worth TX (Travelling Exhibition)
SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 'William Kentridge. Five Themes', San Francisco CA (Travelling Exhibition)
National Museum of Modern Art, 'William Kentridge. What We See & What We Know', Kyoto, Japan
Museo di Capodimonte, 'William Kentridge. Streets of the city (and other tapestries)', Naples, Italy
2008
Goodman Gallery, '(REPEAT) From the Beginning / Da Capo', Cape Town, South Africa
Palazzetto Tito / Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, '(REPEAT) From the Beginning / Da Capo', Venice, Italy
Annandale Galleries, 'William Kentridge', Sydney, Australia
Galerie Marian Goodman, 'William Kentridge', Paris, France
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Seeing Double', New York NY
2007
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 'William Kentridge. Tapestries', Philadelphia PA
Goodman Gallery, 'What Will Come', Johannesburg, South Africa
Regency Town House / University Gallery, University of Brighton, 'William Kentridge. Fragile Identities', Brighton, UK
SCMA Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, 'William Kentridge’s Prints', Northampton MA
Edinburgh Printmakers, 'William Kentridge Prints' [organized on the occasion of the Edinburgh Festival], Edinburgh, UK
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, 'William Kentridge. 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès / Journey to the Moon / Day for Night', Berlin, Germany
Malmö Konsthall, 'William Kentridge. Fagment för Georges Méliès. Black Box/Chambre Noir' [William Kentridge. Fragments for Georges Méliès. Black Box/Chambre Noire], Malmö, Sweden
Moderna Museet, 'William Kentridge', Stockholm, Sweden
Kunsthalle Bremen, 'William Kentridge. What Will Come (has already come)', Bremen, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Städel Museum, ' William Kentridge. What Will Come (has already come)', Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
2006
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. The Magic Flute: Drawings and Projections', New York NY
MAC Miami Art Central, 'William Kentridge', Miami FL
Galerie Marian Goodman, 'William Kentridge', Paris, France
Isola Madre (Isole Borromeo) / Art for the World, 'William Kentridge. Preparing the Flute', Stresa, Italy
NGV National Gallery of Victoria, 'William Kentridge. 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès', Melbourne, Australia
SFAI San Francisco Art Institute, 'William Kentridge', San Francisco CA
Museum der Moderne, 'William Kentridge. Black Box/Chambre Noire', Salzburg, Austria
Museum Höxter-Corvey, 'William Kentridge. Black Box/Chambre Noire', Höxter, Germany
Johannesburg Art Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Black Box/Chambre Noire', Johannesburg, South Africa
RHA Royal Hibernian Academy, 'William Kentridge', Dublin, Ireland
2005
Limerick City Gallery of Art, 'William Kentridge', Limerick, Ireland (Travelling Exhibition)
Model Arts and Niland Gallery, 'William Kentridge', Sligo, Ireland (Travelling Exhibition)
Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, 'William Kentridge. Black Box/Chambre Noire', Berlin, Germany
Galleria Lia Rumma, 'William Kentridge', Naples, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Art, 'William Kentridge. 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès', Los Angeles CA
Art Gallery of Western Australia, 'Shadow Quartet', Perth, Australia
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, 'William Kentridge. 9 Drawings for Projection', New York NY
College of Wooster, 'William Kentridge Prints', Wooster OH (Travelling Exhibition)
MAC Montréal Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 'William Kentridge', Montreal, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
Johannesburg Art Gallery, 'William Kentridge', Johannesburg, South Africa (Travelling Exhibition)
2004
Museum of Contemporary Art, 'William Kentridge', Sydney, Australia (Travelling Exhibition)
K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 'William Kentridge', Dusseldorf, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Castello di Rivoli – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, 'William Kentridge', Rivoli, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, 'William Kentridge Prints', Grinnell IA (Travelling Exhibition)
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge', New York NY
Galerie Marian Goodman, 'William Kentridge', Paris, France
Musée-Château d’Annecy, 'William Kentridge', Annecy, France (Travelling Exhibition)
Art 3 / CRAC & Musée de Valence, 'William Kentridge', Valence, France (Travelling Exhibition)
Annandale Galleries, 'William Kentridge', Sydney, Australia
The MET The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'William Kentridge', New York NY
Museum Kunst Palast, 'Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent', Dusseldorf, Germany
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 'William Kentridge. Tide Table', Waltham MA
2003
Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, 'William Kentridge', Goslar, Germany
Baltic Arts Centre Visby, 'William Kentridge. Journey to the Moon / 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès', Visby, Sweden
Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge', Johannesburg, South Africa
Iziko South African National Gallery, 'William Kentridge', Cape Town, South Africa (Travelling Exhibition)
2002
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Zeno Writing', New York NY
Annandale Galleries, 'William Kentridge', Sydney, Australia
Lia Rumma Gallery, 'William Kentridge', Milan, Italy
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 'William Kentridge', Los Angeles CA (Travelling Exhibition)
Contemporary Arts Museum, 'William Kentridge', Houston TX (Travelling Exhibition)
2001
MCA Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 'William Kentridge', Chicago IL (Travelling Exhibition)
New Museum of Contemporary Art, 'William Kentridge', New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 'William Kentridge', Washington DC (Travelling Exhibition)
Galerie Marian Goodman, 'William Kentridge', Paris, France
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, 'Weighing… and Wanting', Brunswick ME (Travelling Exhibition)
Kunsten Festival des Arts, 'Zeno at 4am', Brussels, Belgium
2000
Goodman Gallery, 'Procession: Sculpture by William Kentridge', Johannesburg, South Africa
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. New Work', New York NY
Stephen Friedman Gallery, 'William Kentridge', London, UK
Annandale Galleries, 'William Kentridge: Procession', Sydney, Australia
UMMA University of Michigan Museum of Art, University of Michigan, 'Weighing… and Wanting', Ann Arbor MI (Travelling Exhibition)
AGO Art Gallery of Ontario, 'Weighing… and Wanting', Toronto, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
Salina Art Center, 'Weighing… and Wanting', Salina KS (Travelling Exhibition)
Forum for Contemporary Art, 'Weighing… and Wanting', St. Louis MI (Travelling Exhibition)
MIT List Visual Arts Center, 'Weighing… and Wanting', Cambridge MA (Travelling Exhibition)
Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart, [Retrospective of William Kentridge’s animated films], Stuttgart, Germany
New Zealand Film Festival, [Retrospective of William Kentridge’s animated films], Wellington, New Zealand
1999
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, 'Projects 68. William Kentridge', New York NY
Galerie Marian Goodman, 'Sleeping on Glass', Paris, France
Centre de la Vieille Charité, 'William Kentridge', Marseilles, France (Travelling Exhibition)
Serpentine Gallery, 'William Kentridge', London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 'William Kentridge', Barcelona, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
1998
Neue Galerie Graz – Universalmuseum Joanneum, 'William Kentridge', Graz, Austria (Travelling Exhibition)
Kunstverein München, 'William Kentridge', Munich, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Palais des Beaux-Arts, 'William Kentridge', Brussels, Belgium (Travelling Exhibition)
/ A22 Gallery, 'William Kentridge', London, UK
North Dakota Museum of Art, 'Weighing… and Wanting', Grand Forks ND (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Weighing… and Wanting', San Diego CA (Travelling Exhibition)
The Drawing Center, 'William Kentridge. Ten Drawings for Projection', New York NY
1997
Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Applied Drawings', Johannesburg, South Africa
1994
Goodman Gallery, 'Felix in Exile', Johannesburg, South Africa
1993
Ruth Bloom Gallery, 'William Kentridge', Los Angeles CA
1992
Vanessa Devereux Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Drawings for Projection', London, UK
Goodman Gallery, 'William Kentridge. Drawings for Projection', Johannesburg, South Africa
1990
Gallery International Cape Town, 'William Kentridge. Drawings', Cape Town, South Africa
Hugo Cassirer Fine Art / Gallery on The Market, 'William Kentridge. Drawings and Graphics', Johannesburg, South Africa
1989
Vanessa Devereux Gallery, 'Responsible Hedonism', London, UK
1988
Hugo Cassirer Fine Art, 'William Kentridge', Johannesburg, South Africa
1987
Vanessa Devereux Gallery, 'In the Heart of the Beast', London, UK
Durban Art Gallery, 'Standard Bank Young Artist Award', Durban, South Africa (Travelling Exhibition)
Unisa Art Gallery, University of South Africa, 'Standard Bank Young Artist Award', Pretoria, South Africa (Travelling Exhibition)
University Art Galleries, University of the Witwatersrand, 'Standard Bank Young Artist Award', Johannesburg, South Africa (Travelling Exhibition)
Tatham Art Gallery, 'Standard Bank Young Artist Award', Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (Travelling Exhibition)
Grahamstown Festival, 'Standard Bank Young Artist Award', Grahamstown, South Africa (Travelling Exhibition)
1986
Hugo Cassirer Fine Art, 'William Kentridge', Johannesburg, South Africa
1985
Hugo Cassirer Fine Art, 'William Kentridge', Johannesburg, South Africa
1981
The Market Gallery, 'Domestic Scenes', Johannesburg, South Africa
1979
The Market Gallery, 'William Kentridge', Johannesburg, South Africa
Group Exhibitions
2025
Kunstmuseum Bonn, 'From Dawn Till Dusk: The Shadow in Contemporary Art', Bonn, Germany
2024
Internal Light Art Biennale BWV Wohnquartier, Hildesheim, Germany
Remai Modern, 'Life in Print: William Kentridge and Pablo Picasso', Saskatoon, Canada
Baur au Lac, 'Art in the Park XXII', Zurich, Switzerland
UMOCA Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 'In Memory', Salt Lake City UT
Bourse de Commerce Pinault, 'Arte Povera', Paris, France
Fondation of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, 'Tuning In. Acoustique de l’émotion', Geneva, Switzerland
Völklinger Hütte, 'The True Size of Africa', Völklingen, Germany
Singer Laren Museum, 'My World', Laren, Netherlands
2023
Palazzo Strozzi, 'Reaching for the Stars', Florence, Italy
BAMPFA Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 'Out of Africa. Selections from the Kramlich Collection', Berkeley CA
Goodman Gallery, 'Landing. A Group Exhibition', New York NY
Goodman Gallery, 'Mapping Another Route - South African Artists in a Modern Era', London, UK
Frac Franche-Comté, 'La Beauté du Diable', Besançon, France
Fondazione Prada, 'Paraventi', Milan, Italy
2022
Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, 'Espressioni. L’Epilogo', Rivoli, Italy
Kunsthalle Praha, 'Kinetismus: 100 Years of Art & Electricity', Prague, Czech Republic
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 'Resist, again', Lausanne, Switzerland
MAMBO Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, 'Exposición un Placer Incierto. Artes del Tiempo en la Colección Pierre Huber', Bogotá, Colombia
Rudolfinum Gallery, 'Forms of Fragility', Prague, Czech Republic
Kunsthaus Göttingen, 'From South Africa: Santu Mofokeng, William Kentridge, Banele Khoza', Göttingen, Germany
Louisiana Museum, 'New Acquisitions', Humlebæk, Denmark
Zionskirche, 'Points of Resistance IV: Skills for Peace', Berlin, Germany
PalaisPopulaire, 'Opera Opera', Berlin, Germany
Palazzo D’Avolos, 'SprigionArti', Procida, Italy
2021
UCCA Edge, 'City on the Edge: Art and Shanghai at the Turn of the Millennium', Shanghai, China
Ad-Diriyah Biennial, 'Feeling the Stones: The First Ad-Diriyah Biennial', Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2020
Sculpture Milwaukee, 'Sculpture Milwaukee 2020', Milwaukee WI
The Drawing Centre, '100 Drawings from Now', New York NY
The Warehouse, 'Psychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma', Dallas TX
Kunsthalle Bremen, 'Remix 2020. Die Sammlung neu sehen', Bremen, Germany
Ningaloo Centre / Art on the Move & AGWA Art Gallery of Western Australia, 'Freighting Ideas. There Were Moments of Transformation', Exmouth, Australia (Travelling Exhibition)
Goldfield Arts Centre / Art on the Move & AGWA Art Gallery of Western Australia, 'Freighting Ideas. There Were Moments of Transformation', Kalgoorlie-Boulder City, Australia (Travelling Exhibition)
Katanning Library and Gallery / Art on the Move & AGWA Art Gallery of Western Australia, 'Freighting Ideas. There Were Moments of Transformation', Katanning, Australia (Travelling Exhibition)
Collie Art Gallery / Art on the Move & AGWA Art Gallery of Western Australia, 'Freighting Ideas. There Were Moments of Transformation', Collie, Australia (Travelling Exhibition)
Geraldton Regional Art Gallery / Art on the Move & AGWA Art Gallery of Western Australia, 'Freighting Ideas. There Were Moments of Transformation', Geraldton, Australia (Travelling Exhibition)
Albany Town Hall / Art on the Move & AGWA Art Gallery of Western Australia, 'Freighting Ideas. There Were Moments of Transformation', Albany City, Australia (Travelling Exhibition)
Bunbury Regional Art Gallery / Art on the Move & AGWA Art Gallery of Western Australia, 'Freighting Ideas. There Were Moments of Transformation', Bunbury, Australia (Travelling Exhibition)
2019
CDAN Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, 'OPEN AIR. Mines, Quarries and Earthly Exploitations', Huesca, Spain
Fondation de l'Ecole Internationale de Genève, 'Graphein', Geneva, Switzerland
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, 'On Flower Power', Rome, Italy
Centre Pompidou Metz, 'Opéra Monde. La quête d’un art total', Metz, France
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'That Which is Not Drawn', London, UK
Bandjoun Station Art Center, 'Retours à l’Afrique', Bandjoun, Cameroon
2018
annexM, Megaron Athens Concert Hall, 'After Babel', Athens, Greece
SESC Centro de Pesquisa e Formação, 'Tarefas Infinitas' [Infinity Task], Sao Paulo, Brazil
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 'Timekeeping', New Brunswick NJ
Lehmbruck Museum, 'Kunst & Kohle. Reichtum: Schwarz ist Gold', Duisburg, Germany
Boca Raton Museum of Art, 'Nomadic Murals: Contemporary Tapestries and Carpets', Boca Raton FL
Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, 'Mirror Mirror', Newark NJ
2017
Saudi Art Council, '21, 39 Jeddah Arts', Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
AGSA Art Gallery of South Australia, 'Versus Rodin: bodies across space and time', Adelaide, Australia
Zeitz MOCAA Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, 'All Things Being Equal…', Cape Town, South Africa
La Villette, 'Afriques Capitales', Paris, France
Kunsthalle Bremen, 'Auto Vision: Media Art from Nam June Paik to Pipilotti Rist', Bremen, Germany
Mu.ZEE Kunstmuseum aan Zee, 'Frans Masereel and contemporary art: images of resistance', Ostende, Belgium
Fondation Louis Vuitton, 'Art/Afrique, Le nouvel atelier', Paris, France
2016
Hilger Brot Kunsthalle, 'The Hilger Collection. Part 1: Works on Paper and Wood', Vienna, Austria
International Print Center of New York, 'Suspended Animation: Moving Images in Print', New York NY
MUCEM Musée des civilisations de l´Europe et de la Méditerranée, 'Café in', Marseille, France
Fruitmarket Gallery, 'William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland: Conversations in Letters and Lines', Edinburgh, UK
2015
Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, 'Flying over the Abyss', Rethymno, Greece
Weserburg Museum, 'Künstlerräume 02', Bremen, Germany
Istanbul Biennale, '14th Istanbul Biennale. Saltwater: A Theory of Thought Forms', Istanbul, Turkey
La Biennale di Venezia, '56th International Art Exhibition. All the World’s Futures', Venice, Italy
Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center, 'Fireflies in the Night', Athens, Greece
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 'William Kentridge, Albrecht Dürer, Double Vision', Berlin, Germany
Charles Allis Art Museum, 'Threshold', Milwaukee WI
2014
SMÄK Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, 'Nofretete – tête-à-tête. Wie Kunst gemacht wird', Munich, Germany
Nam June Paik Art Center, 'Incredibly Close: Good Morning Mr. Orwell 2014', Yongin, South Korea
Lavra Art Gallery, 'INSOUL. Parallel to the International Festival of Contemporary Animation and Media-Art LINOLEUM 2014', Kiev, Ukraine
Gwangju Museum of Art, 'Sweet Dew' [special project for the 20th Anniversary of the Gwangju Biennale], Gwangju, South Korea
CAC Contemporary Arts Center, 'Memory Palace', Cincinnati OH
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, 'Fractured Narratives: A Strategy to Engage', Winter Park FL
The Menil Collection, 'The Art of Truth: Gandhi and the Aesthetics of Non-Violence', Houston TX
Museum on the Seam, 'And the Trees Went Forth to Seek a King', Jerusalem, Israel
MaRT Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Roeverto, 'La guerra che verrà non è la prima 1914-2014', Roverto, Italy
2013
Dojima River Biennale, 'Little River', Osaka, Japan
Kunsthalle Krems, 'DEEP FEELINGS. From Antiquity to Now', Krems, Austria
IMA Institut du Monde Arabe, 'Le Théorème de Néfertiti', Paris, France
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, 'Paisaje. Revision de un genero' [Landscape. A revision of a genre], Mexico City, Mexico
MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Le Pont', Marseille, France
MARCA Museo delle Arti Catanzaro, 'Bookhouse. La forma del libro', Catanzaro, Italy
Van Abbemuseum, 'Black or White', Eindhoven, Netherlands
MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 'Arte, Dos Puntos. Barcelona Vive El Arte Contemporaneo', Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Biblical Art, 'As Subject and Object: Contemporary Book Artists Explore Sacred Hebrew Texts', New York NY
Filmfestival Opolskie Lamy, 'Opole Lamas Film Festival 2013', Opole, Poland
2012
documenta, 'documenta 13', Kassel, Germany
Tate Liverpool / Liverpool Biennale, 'Thresholds', Liverpool, UK
ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, 'ARTandPRESS', Karlsruhe, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Martin-Gropius-Bau, 'ARTandPRESS', Berlin, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
International Center of Photography, 'Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life', New York NY
New Museum, 'Video Musics III: Floating Oceans' [performance by Alexis Gideon with films by William Kentridge], New York NY
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, 'Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image', Cork, Ireland
Tate Liverpool, 'Tracing the Century: Drawing as a Catalyst for Change', Liverpool, UK
Stenersenmuseet, 'The Storytellers: Narratives in International Contemporary Art', Oslo, Norway
Castello di Rivoli – Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, 'Oltre il muro', Rivoli, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo, 'Prism: Drawing from 1990 to 2012', Oslo, Norway
Galerie Marian Goodman, 'Tacita Dean, William Kentridge, Gabriel Orozco, Giuseppe Penone, Niele Toroni, Lawrence Weiner', Paris, France
MARTa Herford, 'Atelier + Küche', Herford, Germany
Beirut Art Center, 'Revolution vs Revolution', Beirut, Lebanon
Tufts University Art Gallery, 'Perspective: A Selection of Projects in Print and Handmade Paper from The Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions', Medford, MA
QUT Art Museum, 'Selected works', Brisbane, Australia
2011
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 'El intervalo luminoso: The D. Daskalopoulos Collection', Bilbao, Spain
CSW Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej [Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle], 'Regress/Progess', Warsaw, Poland
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, 'Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now', New York NY
Campagne Première, 'William Kentridge & Ingeborg Lüscher', Berlin, Germany
Denver Art Museum, 'Blink! Light, Sound & the Moving Image', Denver CO
Birmingham Museum of Art, 'Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950', Birmingham AL
The Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo, 'Absolute Installation', Oslo, Norway
Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie [Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw], Black and White, Warsaw, Poland
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 'CON AMORE. Leif Djurhuus Collection', Aarhus, Denmark
Kunstverein Aalen, 'GRENZENLOS, Bilder - Skulpturen – Installationen', Aalen, Germany
Kunsthalle Wien, 'Weltraum. Die Kunst und ein Traum', Vienna, Austria
Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, 'CUT SCHERENSCHNITTE. 20 aktuelle Positionen', Klagenfurt, Austria
2010
Jan Colle Galerij, 'Dystopia', Ghent, Belgium (Travelling Exhibition)
Oliewenhuis Art Museum, 'Dystopia', Mangaung, South Africa (Travelling Exhibition)
Palazzo Riso – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, 'Essential Experiences', Sicilia, Italy
Beurs van Berlage, 'Niet Normaal', Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Be Alive!', Tokyo, Japan
Vancouver Art Gallery, 'CUE: Artists’ Videos', Vancouver, Canada
Museum Folkwang Essen, 'Wünsche und Erwerbungen. Zeitgenössische Zeichnung', Essen, Germany
MUDAM Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, 'Le Meilleur des Mondes', Luxembourg, Luxembourg
MCA Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 'Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out', Chicago IL
IVAM Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, 'Mallas Calles (Bad Streets)', Valencia, Spain
K20/K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 'Silent Revolution. A New Presentation of the Permanent Collection', Dusseldorf, Germany
La Filature, 'Le décor à l’envers', Mulhouse, France
SITE Santa Fe, 'SITE Santa Fe Biennale 2010. The Dissolve', Santa Fe NM
2009
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 'Blickmaschinen / Visual Tactics: Optical Instruments in History and Contemporary Art', Siegen, Germany
Benaki Museum, 'In Praise of Shadows', Athens, Greece (Travelling Exhibition)
Istanbul Modern, 'In Praise of Shadows', Istanbul, Turkey (Travelling Exhibition)
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, 'Animated Painting', Grinnell IA
Moderna Museet, 'Play – Film and Video', Stockholm, Sweden
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury College, 'Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past', Middlebury VT
Durban Art Gallery, 'Not Alone: An international project of Make Art / Stop Aids', Durban, South Africa
Orange County Museum of Art, 'The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection. Part I', Newport Beach CA
IPCNY International Print Center New York, 'New Prints 2009/Spring. Selected by Polly Apfelbaum', New York NY
Unisa Art Gallery, 'Dystopia', Pretoria, South Africa (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum Africa, 'Dystopia', Johannesburg, South Africa (Travelling Exhibition)
Parasol unit, 'Parades and Processions: Here comes everybody', London, UK
The British Museum, 'Medals of Dishonour', London, UK
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'As Long As It Lasts', New York NY
Dunlop Art Gallery, 'Diabolique', Regina, Canada
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art / Moscow Biennale, '3rd Moscow Biennale. Against Exclusion', Moscow, Russia
IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, 'Order. Desire. Light. An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings', Dublin, Ireland
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, 'Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection', New York NY
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 'The Puppet Show', Houston TX (Travelling Exhibition)
The Frye Art Museum, 'The Puppet Show', Seattle WA (Travelling Exhibition)
2008
ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 'The Puppet Show', Philadelphia PA (Travelling Exhibition)
Santa Monica Museum of Art, 'The Puppet Show', Santa Monica CA (Travelling Exhibition)
The Contemporary Museum, 'The Puppet Show', Honolulu, Hawaii (Travelling Exhibition)
Städel Museum, 'Konstellationen III. Neue Ankäufe und Schenkungen im Kontext der Sammlung', Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Museion, 'Peripheral Look and Collective Body', Bolzano, Italy
Sydney Biennale, '16th Sydney Biennale. Revolutions: Forms that Turn', Sydney, Australia
Seoul International Media Art Biennale, '5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale. Turn and Widen', Seoul, South Korea
2007
Fundación ICO, 'Dibujos Animados (Cartoons)', Madrid, Spain
Centro Guerrero, 'GeoPoetics' [screening 'Stereoscope'], Grenada, Spain
USF Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, 'StereoVision', Tampa FL
Fundação Bienal do Mercosul, 'Zona Franca – Free Zone', Porto Alegre, Brazil
2006
Mori Art Museum, 'Africa Remix. Contemporary Art of a Continent', Tokyo, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
Moderna Museet, 'Africa Remix. Contemporary Art of a Continent', Stockholm, Sweden (Travelling Exhibition)
2005
Hayward Gallery, 'Africa Remix. Contemporary Art of a Continent', London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Centre Pompidou, 'Africa Remix. Contemporary Art of a Continent', Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition)
La Biennale di Venezia, '51st International Art Exhibition. The Experience of Art', Venice, Italy
Castello di Rivoli – Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, 'Volti nella folla. Immagini dell vita moderna da Manet a oggi' [Faces in the Crowd. Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today], Rivoli, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
Mori Art Museum, 'The World is a Stage: Stories Behind Pictures', Tokyo, Japan
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 'Daumenkino: The Flip Book Show', Dusseldorf, Germany
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, 'Take Two. Worlds and Views', New York NY
Hamburger Kunsthalle, 'Rückkehr ins All', Hamburg, Germany
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 'Memorials of Identity. New Media from the Rubell Family Collection', Washington DC (Travelling Exhibition)
Johannesburg Art Gallery, 'New Identities: Contemporary South African Art', Johannesburg, South Africa (Travelling Exhibition)
Pretoria Art Museum, 'New Identities: Contemporary South African Art', Pretoria, South Africa (Travelling Exhibition)
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 'Dreaming Now', Waltham MA
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 'Prepossession', Paddington, Australia
2004
The Rubell Family Collection, 'Memorials of Identity. New Media from the Rubell Family Collection', Miami FL (Travelling Exhibition)
FGCU Art Galleries, FGCU Florida Gulf Coast University, 'Memorials of Identity. New Media from the Rubell Family Collection', Fort Myers FL (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum Kunst Palast, 'Africa Remix. Contemporary Art of a Continent', Dusseldorf, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Deste Foundation, 'Monument to Now', Athens, Greece
Auckland Triennial, '2nd Aukland Triennial. Public/Private. Tumatanui/Tumataiti', Aukland, New Zealand
Vancouver Art Gallery, 'The Divine Comedy', Vancouver, Canada
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'Reflecting the Mirror', New York NY
Whitechapel Art Gallery, 'Faces in the Crowd. Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today', London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum Bochum, 'New Identities: Contemporary South African Art', Bochum, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Merano Arte, '+ Positive. 2a Biennale di Merano Arte', Merano, Italy
Toyota Museum of Art, 'In Bed', Tokyo, Japan
Le Grand Café – Centre d'Art Contemporain, 'Trouble', Saint-Nazaire, France
Kunsthaus Zürich, 'Parkett. 20 Years of Artists' Collaborations', Zurich, Switzerland
DA2 Domus Artium 2002, 'Laocoonte devorado. Arte y violencia política', Salamanca, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
Centro José Guerrero de la Diputación de Granada, 'Laocoonte devorado. Arte y violencia política', Granada, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, 'Laocoonte devorado. Arte y violencia política', Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, 'Tremor. Contemporary South African Art', Charleroi, Belgium
International Center of Photography, 'White. Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art', New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
ISELP Institut Supérieur pour l'Étude du Langage Plastique, 'Le dessus des cartes. Art et cartographie', Brussels, Belgium
Fortis Circus Theatre, 'The ID of South African Artists', Scheveningen, Netherlands
2003
Megaron Moussikis Athens / EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, 'Synopsis 3. Testimonies Between Fiction & Reality', Athens, Greece
Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC University of Maryland Baltimore County, 'White. Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art', Catonsville MD (Travelling Exhibition)
Benaki Museum of Art, 'Outlook. International Art Exhibition', Athens, Greece
Guggenheim Museum, 'Moving Pictures', Bilbao, Spain
Cleveland Museum of Art, 'Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection', Cleveland OH
National Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Synopsis III: Testimonies Between Fiction and Reality', Athens, Greece
Cheekwood Museum of Art, 'Animation Impulse: Video Art and the Generated Image', Nashville TN
Atelier Augarten, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst der Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere, 'Trauer', Vienna, Austria
Sharjah Biennale, 'Sharjah Biennale 6. Universes in Universe: Caravan', Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, 'Banquet: Metabolism and Communication', Karlsrhue, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Centro Cultural Conde Duque, 'Banquet: Metabolism and Communication', Madrid, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
Palau de la Virreina, 'Banquet: Metabolism and Communication', Barcelona, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
South African National Gallery, 'Coexistence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa', Cape Town, South Africa
Palais des Beaux-Arts, 'Transferts', Brussels, Belgium
Vancouver Art Gallery, 'Drawing the World', Vancouver, Canada
Kunstmuseum Thun, 'Images of Society', Thun, Switzerland
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 'Reflection. Seven Years in Print', New York NY
Kettle's Yard, 'Apparition. The Action of Appearing', Cambridge, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
National Museum of Australia, 'Witnessing to Silence. Art and Human Rights', Canberra, Australia (Travelling Exhibition)
Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 'Witnessing to Silence. Art and Human Rights', Canberra, Australia (Travelling Exhibition)
School of Art Gallery, ANU Australian National University / National Institute of the Arts, 'Witnessing to Silence. Art and Human Rights', Canberra, Australia (Travelling Exhibition)
Drill Hall Gallery, ANU Australian National University, 'Witnessing to Silence. Art and Human Rights', Canberra, Australia (Travelling Exhibition)
Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art, 'Prints and Multiples', Johannesburg, South Africa
ZKM Zentrum für Kumst und Medien Karlsruhe, 'Future Cinema. The Cinematic Imaginary After Film', Karlsruhe, Germany
MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, 'Le collezioni. Acquisizioni di arte contemporanea', Rome, Italy
Biennale de l'image en movement, '10 Biennale de l'image en movement. 10th Biennial of Moving Images', Geneva, Switzerland
2002
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 'Lateral Thinking. Art of the 1990s', San Diego CA (Travelling Exhibition)
Arnolfini Gallery, 'Apparition. The Action of Appearing', Bristol, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
Haus der Kunst, 'Stories. Erzählstrukturen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst', Munich, Germany
MoMA PS1, 'The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994', New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 'Animations', Berlin, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
documenta / Museum Fridericianum, 'documenta 11', Kassel, Germany
Art Gallery of Western Australia, 'The Divine Comedy: Francisco Goya, Buster Keaton, William Kentridge', Perth, Australia
Art Tower Mito, 'Screen Memories: Imitation of Life', Tokyo, Japan
Centro de Arte Salamanca, 'Comer o no Comer' [To Eat or Not to Eat], Salamanca, Spain
Berkeley Square Gallery, 'The Print Collection. Modern & Contemporary Prints', London, UK
The Israel Museum, 'Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art?', Jerusalem, Israel
Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, 'Tech/no/zone. Contemporary Media Art', Taipei, Taiwan
2001
MCA Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 'The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994', Chicago IL (Travelling Exhibition)
House of World Cultures, 'The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994', Berlin, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum Villa Stuck, 'The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994', Munich, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
MoMA PS1, 'Animations', New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
2000
Biennale Havanna, '7th Havana Biennale', Havana, Cuba
Coninx Museum, 'Beyond Borders', Zurich, Switzerland
Historisches Museum / Schirn Kunsthalle, 'Das Gedächtnis der Kunst: Geschichte und Erinnerung in der Kunst der Gegenwart', Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 'Rotterdam is Many Cities', Rotterdam, Netherlands
Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 'Illuminations: Contemporary Film and Video Art', Chapel Hill NC
Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, 'Insistent Memory: The Architecture of Time in Video', Gainesville FL
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 'The Self Is Something Else. Art at the End of the 20th Century', Dusseldorf, Germany
New Shanghai Art Museum / Shanghai Biennale, '3rd Shanghai Biennale', Shanghai, China
Contemporary Arts Museum, 'Outbound: Passages from the 90’s', Houston TX
BüroFriedrich, 'Duration. 5 x Donnerstagabend', Berlin, Germany
Papal Palace, 'La Beauté. Beauty in Fabula', Avignon, France
Bildmuseet, 'Umedalen Skulptur', Umea, Sweden
Museum Fridericianum, 'Das Lied von der Erde', Kassel, Germany
Associação Cultural Videobrasil, 'Festival de Arte Contemporânea Sesc_Videobrasil', Sao Paulo, Brazil
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 'A Double View: Three Exhibitions', Tel Aviv, Israel
Gwangju Biennale, '3rd Gwangju Biennale', Gwangju, South Korea
Atkinson Gallery, 'Cross Currents. Contemporary Art Practice in South Africa', Street, UK
1999
Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Unfinished History', Chicago IL (Travelling Exhibition)
Walker Art Center, 'Unfinished History', Minneapolis MN (Travelling Exhibition)
Carnegie Museum of Art, 'Carnegie International', Pittsburgh PA
Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, 'A Sangre y Fuego (No Quarter Given)', Castellón de la Plana, Spain
Museum Ludwig, 'Kunstwelten im Dialog', Cologne, Germany
La Biennale di Venezia, '48th International Art Exhibition. dAPERTutto, Venice, Italy
Van Reekum Museum of Modern Art, '"Rewind" Fast Forward.ZA', Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Istanbul Biennale, '6th Istanbul Biennale', Istanbul, Turkey
Villa Medici – Académie de France à Rome, 'La Mémoire' [La Ville, le Jardin, La Mémoire], Rome, Italy
Aspen Art Museum, 'Powder', Aspen CO
1998
Marian Goodman Gallery, 'Breaking Ground', New York NY
SoHo Guggenheim, 'Hugo Boss Prize', New York, New York
Bienal de São Paulo, '24th Bienal de São Paulo', Sao Paulo, Brazil
Walker Art Center, 'Unfinished History', Minneapolis MN
Umetnostna galerija Maribor, 'Kartografowie. Projekcje geo-gnostyczne. Cartographers. Geo-gnostic Projection for the 21st Century', Maribor, Slovenia (Travelling Exhibition)
Mücsarnok, 'Kartografowie. Projekcje geo-gnostyczne. Cartographers. Geo-gnostic Projection for the 21st Century', Budapest, Hungary (Travelling Exhibition)
Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej, 'Kartografowie. Projekcje geo-gnostyczne. Cartographers. Geo-gnostic Projection for the 21st Century', Warsaw, Poland (Travelling Exhibition)
Contemporary Arts Museum, 'Projected Allegories: A Video Series', Houston TX
1997
Muzej suvremene umjetnosti [Museum of Contemporary Art], 'Kartografowie. Projekcje geo-gnostyczne. Cartographers. Geo-gnostic Projection for the 21st Century', Zagreb, Croatia (Travelling Exhibition)
documenta / Museum Fridericianum, 'documenta X', Kassel, Germany
Johannesburg Biennale, '2nd Johannesburg Biennale. Trade Routes: History and Geography', Johannesburg, South Africa
Stenersenmuseet / Riksutstillinger, 'Contemporary Art from South Africa', Oslo, Norway
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 'Città/Natura: Mostra Internazionale di Arte Contemporanea', Rome, Italy
Centro Wilfredo Lam / Biennale Havanna, '6th Havana Biennial. El individuo y su memoria', Havana, Cuba
Observatory Museum / Standard Bank National Festival for the Arts, 'Ubu: ± 101', Grahamstown, South Africa (Travelling Exhibition)
Gertrude Posel Gallery, Senate House, 'Ubu: ± 101', Johannesburg, South Africa (Travelling Exhibition)
University Art Galleries, University Witwatersrand, 'Ubu: ± 101', Johannesburg, South Africa (Travelling Exhibition)
SITE Santa Fe, 'Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions', Santa Fe NM
Talbot-Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, 'New Art from South Africa', Edinburgh, UK
Johannesburg Biennale / AICA Africus Institute for Contemporary Art, '2nd Johannesburg Biennale. Trade Routes: History and Geography', Johannesburg, South Africa
Aktionsforum Praterinsel, 'Lifetimes: Art from Southern Africa', Munich, Germany
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 'Delta', Paris, France
1996
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 'Colours: Contemporary Art from South Africa', Berlin, Germany
City Gallery East, 'Common and Uncommon Ground. South African Art to Atlanta', Atlanta GE
The Castle, 'Faultlines: Inquiries into Truth & Reconciliation', Cape Town, South Africa
Biennale of Sydney, '10th Biennale of Sydney. Jurassic Technologies Revenant', Sydney, Australia
Reininhaus, 'Inklusion-Exklusion. Versuch einer neuen Kartografie der Kunst im Zetailter von Postkolonialism und Globaler Migration', Graz, Austria
Culturgest, 'Don’t Mess with Mr. In-between: 15 South African Artists', Lisbon, Portugal
Bonnefanten Museum, 'Campo 6. The Spiral Village', Maastricht, Netherlands (Travelling Exhibition)
Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, 'Campo 6. The Spiral Village', Turin, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
Le Botanique, 'Festival des Dessins Animés' [retrospective of artist’s animated films], Brussels, Belgium
1995
Johannesburg Biennale, '1st Johannesburg Biennale. Africus', Johannesburg, South Africa
Istanbul Biennale, '4th Istanbul Biennale. Eidophusikon', Istanbul, Turkey
Albany Museum, 'Panoramas of Passage: Changing Landscapes of South Africa', Grahamstown, South Africa (Travelling Exhibition)
Meridian International Center, 'Panoramas of Passage: Changing Landscapes of South Africa', Washington DC (Travelling Exhibition)
The Delfina Studio Trust, 'On the Road. Works by 10 South African Artists', London, UK
Festival d'Animation Annecy, 'Annecy International Animation Film Festival 1995' [retrospective of artist’s animated films], Annecy, France
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, 'Mayibuye i Afrika. An Exhibition of Contemporary South African Art', London, UK
1993
Art First, 'Trackings: History as Memory, Document & Object. New Works by four South African Artists', London, UK
Victoria Primary School, 'Goodman in Grahamstown', Grahamstown, South Africa
1992
Goodman Gallery, 'Easing of the Passing (of the Hours): William Kentridge, Robert Hodgins, Deborah Bell', Johannesburg, South Africa
Stedelijk Museum, 'Incroci del Sud. Southern Cross. Affinities-Contemporary South African Art', Amsterdam, Netherlands (Travelling Exhibition)
Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Fondazione Levi / La Biennale di Venezia, 'Incroci del Sud. Southern Cross. Affinities-Contemporary South African Art', Venice, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
Edinburgh International Film Festival, ‘Edinburgh International Film Festival 1992’ [retrospective of artist’s films], Edinburgh, UK
Festival d'Animation Annecy, 'Annecy International Animation Film Festival 1992', Annecy, France
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, 'Best of Annecy', New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Centre Pompidou, 'Best of Annecy', Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition)
Waterfront, 'The Art Fair' [premiere screening of 'Easing of the Passing (of the Hours)'], Cape Town, South Africa
1991
The Arts Association of Bellville, 'Gala', Cape Town, South Africa
Weekly Mail Short Film Festival, 'Weekly Mail Short Film Festival 1991', Johannesburg, South Africa
1990
Museum of Modern Art, 'Art from South Africa', Oxford, UK
Institute for Contemporary Art, 'Zabalaza Festival', London, UK
Weekly Mail Short Film Festival, 'Weekly Mail Short Film Festival 1990', Johannesburg, South Africa
1988
The Everard Read Gallery, 'South African Landscapes', Johannesburg, South Africa
1986
University Art Galleries, University Witwatersrand, 'Three Hogarth Satires', Johannesburg, South Africa
1982
American Film Festival, 'American Film Festival 1982', New York NY
1981
South African Association of Art, 'National Graphic Show', Cape Town, South Africa
Lectures
2024
The Department of History of Art and the Center for Visual Studies, University of Oxford, William Kentridge. Slade Professor of Fine Art 2023/2024, 'William Kentridge. A Natural History of the Studio', Oxford, UK
2022
The Rothschild Foundation Lecture, Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Royal Academy of Arts, 'Words, Ah Yes, Words. Text and Image', London, UK
Milwaukee Art Museum, 'Finding the Less Good Idea', Milwaukee WI
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Barbro Osher Theatre, 'To W hat End?', Berkeley CA
2020
University of Pennsylvania, 'The Moment Has Gone' [Susan T. Marx Distinguished Lecture, October 2020, online lecture], Philadelphia PA
2018
Brooklyn Public Library, 'Let Us Try for Once: 15 ½ Thoughts in the Library' [lecture as part of the 'Message from the Library' series, 9 December 2018], New York NY
2017
Campoamor Theatre, 'Enough and More Than Enough' [lecture / performance with Maricel Alvarez, on occasion of receiving the Princesa d’Asturias Award for the Arts, October 2017], Oviedo, Spain
Sigmund Freud Museum, 'A Defence of the Less Good Idea' [Sigmund Freud Lecture, May 2017], Vienna, Austria
2016
Foreign Affairs – International Performing Arts Festival, 'Six Drawing Lessons' [a series of six lectures], Berlin, Germany
Martin Gropius Bau / Berliner Festspiele, 'A Guided Tour of the Exhibition: for Soprano with Handbag' [lecture / performance with projections, 20 May 2016], Berlin, Germany
2015
Yale University, 'Peripheral Thinking' [8 November 2015], New Haven CT
Princeton University, 'O Sentimental Machine' [lecture as the 2015-16 Belknap Visitor in the Humanities, 14 October 2015], New York NY
Asia Art Archive, 'Peripheral Thinking' [30 June 2015], Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 'Peripheral Thinking' [27 June 2015], Beijing, China
Europalia Festival, 'Peripheral Thinking' [12 May 2015], Brussels, Belgium
MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, 'Peripheral Thinking' [14 March 2015], Mexico City, Mexico
Design Indaba, 'Peripheral Thinking' [27 February 2015], Cape Town, South Africa
2014
SchauSpielHaus, 'Six Drawing Lessons' [a series of six lectures], Hamburg, Germany
Humboldt University, 'A Dream of Love Reciprocated: History & the Image' [lecture as part of the Mosse Lecture series, February 2014], Berlin, Germany
2013
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago, 'Listening to the Image' [October 2013], Chicago IL
University of Rochester, 'Everyone Their Own Projector' [lecture as Distinguished Visitor in the Humanities, September 2013], New York NY
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, 'Thinking on one’s feet: A walking tour of the studio' [lecture as part of the Humanitas 2013 Visiting Professorship in Contemporary Art, 6 May 2013], Oxford, UK
University of the Witwatersrand, 'Six Drawing Lessons' [a series of six lectures], Johannesburg, South Africa
2012
Harvard University, 'Six Drawing Lessons' [a series of six lectures for the Norton Professorship of Poetry], Cambridge MA
2011
iDANS Istanbul International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival, 'I am not me, the horse is not mine' [lecture / performance with projections, October 2011], Istanbul, Turkey
The Garage, 'I am not me, the horse is not mine' [lecture / performance with projections, 1 October 2011], Moscow, Russia
Galleria Lia Rumma, 'I am not me, the horse is not mine' [lecture / performance with projections, 19 March 2011], Milan, Italy
2010
Kyoto International Conference Center, 'Meeting the World Halfway: A Johannesburg Biography' [Kyoto Prize Commemorative Lecture: Arts & Philosophy, on occasion of receiving the Kyoto Prize: Arts & Philosophy, 11 November 2010], Kyoto, Japan
Theater der Welt, 'I am not me, the horse is not mine' [lecture / performance with projections, July 2010], Mulheim, Germana
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 'I am not me, the horse is not mine' [lecture / performance with projections, 16 April 2010], Hiroshima, Japan
GIPCA Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts, University of Cape Town 'Great Texts, Big Questions' [8 April 2010], Cape Town, South Africa
Festival Bo:m, 'I am not me, the horse is not mine' [lecture / performance with projections, April 2010], Seoul, South Korea
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, 'I am not me, the horse is not mine' [lecture / performance with projections, 4 March 2010], New York NY
2009
Kyoto Kaikan concert hall / The National Museum of Modern Art, 'I am not me, the horse is not mine' [lecture / performance with projections, 4 September 2009], Kyoto, Japan
2008
Iziko South African National Gallery, 'I am not me, the horse is not mine' [lecture / performance with projections, December 2008], Cape Town, South Africa
Cockatoo Island / Sydney Biennale, 'I am not me, the horse is not mine' [lecture / performance with projections, 18 June 2008], Sydney, Australia
2005
Guggenheim Museum, 'Black Box: Between the Lens and the Eyepiece' [May 2005], New York NY
2003
WiSER Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, 'Three Lectures on Process' [series of three lectures, August 2003], Johannesburg, South Africa
2001
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, 'In Praise of Shadows' [October 2001], Chicago IL
1986
Standard Bank National Festival, 'Art in a State of Siege' [June/July 1986], Grahamstown, South Africa
Theatrical and Opera Performances
2025
Taipei Performing Arts Center, 'Waiting for the Sibyl', Taipei, Taiwan
Canadian Opera Company, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 'Wozzeck', Toronto, Canada
GS Arts Center, 'Sibyl', Seoul, South Korea
GS Arts Center, 'Oh To Believe in Another World', Seoul, South Korea
Zellerbach Hall, CalPerformances, University of California, 'The Great Yes, The Great No', Berkeley CA
The Baxter Theatre, 'Faustus in Africa!', Cape Town, South Africa
The Wallis Center, Bram Goldsmith Theater, 'The Great Yes, The Great No', Los Angeles CA
2024
Luma Foundation, Grande Halle Ouest, 'The Great Yes, The Great No', Arles, France
Adrienne Arsht Center, Knight Concert Hall, 'The Great Yes, The Great No', Miami FL
Gran Teatre del Liceu, 'Oh To Believe in Another World', Barcelona, Spain
Impulstanz Festival, Odeon Theater, 'Ursonate', Vienna, Austria
Impulstanz Festival, Burgtheater, 'The Great Yes, The Great No', Vienna, Austria
2023
Théâtre du Châtelet, 'Sibyl', Paris, France
Teatros del Canal, 'Sibyl', Madrid, Spain
Wiener Festwochen, 'Sibyl', Vienna, Austria
Wiener Konzerthaus, 'Oh To Believe in Another World', Vienna, Austria
Hong Kong Sinfonietta, HK City Hall Concert Hall, 'Oh To Believe in Another World', Hong Kong, China
Sydney Opera House, Joan Sutherland Theatre, 'Sibyl', Sydney, Australia
Joburg Theatre, 'The Head & the Load', Johannesburg, South Africa
Cal Performances, University of California, 'Sibyl', Berkeley CA
Cal Performances, University of California, 'Ursonate', Berkeley CA
2022
Luzerner Sinfonie Orchester, 'Shostakovich Symphony No. 10', Lucerne, Switzerland
Luzerner Sinfonie Orchester, 'Oh To Believe in Another World', Lucerne, Switzerland
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Opera Barcelona, 'Wozzeck', Barcelona, Spain
Barbican Theatre, 'William Kentridge. To What End', London, UK
Opéra Bastille, Opéra National de Paris, 'Wozzeck', Paris, France
Ziff Ballet Opera House, presented by the Adrienne Arsht Center, 'The Head & the Load', Miami FL
Roy and Edna Disney Calarts Theater, 'Houseboy', Los Angeles CA
Royal Academy of Arts, Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, 'Ursonate', London, UK
Teatro Grande del Parco Archeologico di Pompei, 'Oh To Believe in Another World', Pompeii, Italy
2021
Royal Dramatic Theatre, 'Waiting for the Sibyl', Stockholm, Sweden
Philharmonie Luxembourg, 'Il Ritorno d’Ulisse', Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, 'Paper Music', Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Summer Nostos Festival, 'Waiting for the Sibyl', Athens, Greece
The Centre for the Less Good Idea, 'Season 8', Johannesburg, South Africa
The Centre for the Less Good Idea, 'Season 7', Johannesburg, South Africa
Jo’burg Theatre, 'Private: The Head & the Load', Johannesburg, South Africa
Philharmonie Luxembourg, 'Expired: Ursonate', Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2019
Kyoto Art Theater Shunjuza, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Kyoto, Japan
Sydney Opera House, 'Wozzeck' [composed by Alban Berg], Sydney, Australia
Salzburger Festspiele, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Salzburg, Austria
Holland Festival, 'The Head & Load', Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Basel, 'Ursonate' [sound poem by Kurt Schwitters], Basel, Switzerland
Zürcher Theater Spektakel, 'Ursonate' [sound poem by Kurt Schwitters], Zurich, Switzerland
Holland Festival, 'Ursonate' [sound poem by Kurt Schwitters], Amsterdam, Netherlands
St Thomas the Apostle Church / Performa, 'Ursonate' [sound poem by Kurt Schwitters], New York NY
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, 'Waiting for the Sibyl', Rome, Italy
Opera de Lyon, 'Il Ritorno d’Ulisse' [with the Handspring Puppet Company; composed by Claudio Monteverdi], Lyon, France
Opéra Royal, 'Il Ritorno d’Ulisse' [with the Handspring Puppet Company; composed by Claudio Monteverdi], Versailles, France
Maison De La Danse, 'Il Ritorno d’Ulisse' [with the Handspring Puppet Company; composed by Claudio Monteverdi], Lyon, France
Opéra De Vichy, 'Il Ritorno d’Ulisse' [with the Handspring Puppet Company; composed by Claudio Monteverdi], Vichy, France
Teatro Massimo, 'Il Ritorno d’Ulisse' [with the Handspring Puppet Company; composed by Claudio Monteverdi], Palermo, Italy
Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, 'Calder/Kentridge', Rome, Italy
2018
The New National Theater, 'Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)' [composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart], Tokyo, Japan
Park Avenue Armory, 'The Head & Load', New York NY
Ruhrtriennal, 'The Head & Load', Duisburg, Germany
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, 'The Head & Load', London, UK
2017
Teatro Dell’Opera, 'Lulu' [composed by Alban Berg], Rome, Italy
2016
Daejeon Arts Center, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Seoul, South Korea
Lotte Concert Hall, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Seoul, South Korea
Palau De La Musica Barcelona, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Barcelona, Spain
Opéra De Lille, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Lille, France
Philharmonie De Paris, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Paris, France
San Francisco Opera, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], San Francisco CA
Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Lisbon, Portugal
Sydney Festival, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Sydney, Australia
English National Opera, 'Lulu' [composed by Alban Berg], London, UK
Gerald W. Lynch Theater, John Jay College / Lincoln Center, 'Il Ritorno d’Ulisse' [with the Handspring Puppet Company; composed by Claudio Monteverdi], New York NY
Asia Culture Center, 'Il Ritorno d’Ulisse' [with the Handspring Puppet Company; composed by Claudio Monteverdi], Gwangju, South Korea
2015
Les Théâtres De La Ville De Luxembourg, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Lotte Concert Hall, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Seoul, South Korea
Singapore International Festival of Arts, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Singapore, Singapore
Metropolitan Opera, 'Lulu' [composed by Alban Berg], New York NY
Dutch National Opera, 'Lulu' [composed by Alban Berg], Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cape Town City Hall / Design Indaba, 'Refuse the Hour', Cape Town, South Africa
Brooklyn Academy of Music, 'Refuse the Hour', New York NY
Canadian Stage, 'Ubu and the Truth Commission' [with Jane Taylor and the Handspring Puppet Company], Toronto, Canada
2014
Net Festival Moscow, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Moscow, Russia
Lincoln Center White Light Festival, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], New York NY
Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Göttingen, Germany
Holland Festival, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Amsterdam, Netherlands
Festival D’aix-En-Provence, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Aix-En-Provence, France
Wiener Festwochen, 'Winterreise' [composed by Franz Schubert], Vienna, Austria
Deutsches SchauSpielHaus Hamburg, 'Drawing Lessons' / 'Refuse the Hour', Hamburg, Germany
Carnegie Hall, 'Paper Music. A Ciné Concert by Philip Miller and William Kentridge', New York NY
Lincoln Center, 'Paper Music. A Ciné Concert by Philip Miller and William Kentridge', New York NY
Bargello Museum, 'Paper Music. A Ciné Concert by Philip Miller and William Kentridge', Florence, Italy
Edinburgh International Festival, 'Ubu and the Truth Commission' [with Jane Taylor and the Handspring Puppet Company], Edinburgh, UK
E-Werk / Kunstfest Weimar, 'Ubu and the Truth Commission' [with Jane Taylor and the Handspring Puppet Company], Weimar, Germany
2013
Festival Quartier d'Été, 'Refuse the Hour', Paris, France
ImpulsTanz Festival, 'Refuse the Hour', Vienna, Austria
2012
Teatro Argentina / Romaeuropa Festival, 'Refuse the Hour', Rome, Italy
Hopkins Centre for the Performing Arts, Dartmouth College, 'Woyzeck on the Highveld' [with the Handspring Puppet Company], Hanover NH
Edlis Neeson Theater / MCA Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 'Woyzeck on the Highveld' [with the Handspring Puppet Company], Chicago IL
2011
Teatro alla Scala, 'Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)' [composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart], Milan, Italy
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth University, 'Woyzeck on the Highveld' [with the Handspring Puppet Company], Aberystwyth, UK
Wales Millennium Centre, 'Woyzeck on the Highveld' [with the Handspring Puppet Company], Cardiff, UK
Barbican Centre, 'Woyzeck on the Highveld' [with the Handspring Puppet Company], London, UK
Market Theatre, 'Refuse the Hour', Johannesburg, South Africa
Bargello Museum / FLAME Florence Music Art Ensemble, 'Paper Music', Florence, Italy
2010
Metropolitan Opera, 'The Nose' [composed by Dmitri Shostakovich], New York NY
2009
TNS Théâtre national de Strasbourg, 'Woyzeck on the Highveld' [with the Handspring Puppet Company], Strasbourg, France
Centre Pompidou / Festival d’Automne de Paris, 'Woyzeck on the Highveld' [with the Handspring Puppet Company], Paris, France
Teatro Eliseo / Romaeuropa Festival, 'Woyzeck on the Highveld' [with the Handspring Puppet Company], Rome, Italy
Kaaitheater, 'Telegrams from the Nose', Brussels, Belgium
2007
Brooklyn Academy of Music, 'The Magic Flute' [composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart], New York NY
2005
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, 'The Magic Flute' [composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart], Brussels, Belgium
2002
Teatro Valle / Romaeuropa Festival, 'Confessions of Zeno' [with Handspring Puppet Company & Kevin Volans, based on 'The Conscience of Zeno' by Italo Svevo], Rome, Italy
Centre Pompidou / Festival d’Automne de Paris, 'Confessions of Zeno' [with Handspring Puppet Company & Kevin Volans, based on 'The Conscience of Zeno' by Italo Svevo], Paris, France
Kaaitheater / Kunsten Festival des Arts, 'Confessions of Zeno' [with Handspring Puppet Company & Kevin Volans, based on 'The Conscience of Zeno' by Italo Svevo], Brussels, Belgium
1998
Luna Theater / Kunsten Festival des Arts, 'Il Ritorno d’Ulisse' [with the Handspring Puppet Company; composed by Claudio Monteverdi], Brussels, Belgium
1997
Market Theatre, 'Ubu and the Truth Commission' [with Jane Taylor and the Handspring Puppet Company], Johannesburg, South Africa
1995
Market Theatre, 'Faustus in Africa!' [with the Handspring Puppet Company], Johannesburg, South Africa
Grahamstown Festival, 'Faustus in Africa!' [with the Handspring Puppet Company], Grahamstown, South Africa
Reithalle / Kunstfest Weimar, 'Faustus in Africa!' [with the Handspring Puppet Company], Weimar, Germany
1992
The Market Theatre, 'Woyzeck on the Highveld' [with the Handspring Puppet Company], Johannesburg, South Africa
National Arts Festival, Graeme College, 'Woyzeck on the Highveld' [with the Handspring Puppet Company], Grahamstown, South Africa
Awards & Grants
2025
Académie des Beaux-Arts, Foreign Associate Member, Paris, France
2024
Brown University, Honorary Doctorate, Providence RI
2023
Olivier Award, Outstanding Achievement in Opera Award, London, UK
Animafest Film Festival, Lifetime Achievement Award, Zagreb, Croatia
2022
Columbia University, Honorary Doctorate, New York NY
Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo, Laurea Honoris Causa, Palermo, Italy
Honour of the Order of the Star of Italy, Rome, Italy
Queen Sonja Lifetime Achievement Award (Printmaking), Oslo, Norway
2021
Foreign Associate Member to the French Académie des Beaux Arts, Paris
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, University of the Western Cape, Ghent University, Doctor Honoris Causa
Ruth Baumgarte Art Prize, Hanover, Germany
2019
Praemium Imperiale in Painting, Japan Art Association, Tokyo, Japan
Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (for Exceptional Accomplishments in the Field of Theatrical Motion Pictures), Los Angeles CA
2018
Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy
2017
Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, Princess of Asturias Foundation, Oviedo, Spain
2015
Honorary Academician,Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2014
Penagos Prize, Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain
2013
Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Contemporary Art, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Distinguished Visiting Humanist, University of Rochester, New York NY
2010
Honorary Doctorate, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Kyoto Prize, Inamori Foundation, Kyoto, Japan
2008
Honorary Doctorate, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
2004
Honorary Doctorate, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
2003
Kaiserring Prize, Mönchehaus-Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany
Sharjah Biennale 6 Prize, Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2000
Residency as Master Artist, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Civitella, Italy
Carnegie Prize, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA
1998
Hugo Boss Prize [nomination], SoHo Guggenheim, New York NY
1991
Weekly Mail Short Film Competition Award [for 'Mine'], Weekly Mail Short Film Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa
1990
Weekly Mail Short Film Competition Award [for 'Monument'], Weekly Mail Short Film Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa
1987
Standard Bank Young Artist Award, Standard Bank / National Arts Festival Artistic Committee, Grahamstown, South Africa
1985
Blue Ribbon Award [for 'Salestalk'], American Film Festival, New York NY
1984
Olive Schreiner Prize for Drama [for 'Randlords and Rotgut', with Junction Avenue Theatre Company], English Academy of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
1982
Red Ribbon Award for Short Fiction [for 'Howl at the Moon'], American Film Festival, New York NY
Monographs
2025
Marta, Karen (ed.), 'William Kentridge: Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot', Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2025, ill.
Kentridge, William, 'William Kentridge. Je n'attends plus', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König; Arles: LUMA Arles, 2025, ill. (exh. cat.)
2024
McDonald, John, Krell, Alan (ed.), 'William Kentridge. Day Will Break More Than Once', Sydney: Annandale Galleries, 2024, ill. (exh. cat.)
Clingman, Stephen, Locke, Adrian, Thompson, Rose, 'William Kentridge', Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2024, ill. (exh. cat.)
2023
Kentridge, William, Bischof Ullmann, Numa, Frolova-Walker, Marina, 'Oh To Believe in Another World, Lucerne: Edizioni Periferia, 2023, ill. (exh. cat.)
Ingarao, Giulia, Leone, Antonio, Buccheri, Alessandra, 'You Whom I Could Not Save', Palermo: Edizioni Kalós, 2023, ill. (exh. cat.)
2022
McCoy, Ann, Mda, Zakes, Murch, Walter, 'William Kentridge. In Praise of Shadows', New York, Los Angeles: Delmonico Books, The Broad, 2022 ill. (exh. cat.)
Siebrits, Warren, 'William Kentridge: Prints and Posters 1974-1990', Göttingen: Steidl, 2022, ill.
Bernotaite, Sandra, Kentridge, Alice, Kentridge, William, Vitkiene, Virginija (et al.), 'That Which We Do Not Remember', VSI Kaunas: Lithuania, 2022
Stephen, Clingman, Locke, Adrian, Thompson, Rose, 'William Kentridge', London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2022, ill. (exh. cat.)
Gualdoni, Flaminio (ed.), 'Arte Contemporanea. I Protagonisti: Kentridge', Milan: Corriere Della Sera, 2022, ill.
2021
Siebrits, Warren (ed.), 'William Kentridge. Domestic Scenes', Göttingen: Steidl, 2021, ill.
2020
Nel, Karel, Martin, Owen, Brundyn, Elana (ed.), 'William Kentridge. Why Should I Hesitate: Sculpture', Cologne/DE: Walther König, 2020, ill. (exh. cat.)
Magoma, Gregory, Olusoga, David, Miller, Philip (et al.), 'William Kentridge. The Head & the Load', Paris: Éditions Xavier Barral, 2020, ill.
Macé, Gerard, 'How to Become William Kentridge' [English ed.], Paris: Éditions la Pionnière, 2020
2019
O’Toole, Sean, Nwagbogu, Azu, Kentridge, William (et al.), 'Why Should I Hesitate. Putting Drawings to Work', Cape Town: Zeitz MOCAA Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, London: Koenig Books, 2019, ill. (exh. cat.)
Delot, Sébastien, Helfenstein, Josef (eds.), 'William Kentridge. Un poème qui n'est pas le nôtre', Paris: Flammarion/Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, 2019, ill. (exh. cat.)
Helfenstein, Josef, Delot, Sébastien (eds.), 'William Kentridge. A Poem That Is Not Our Own', Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel, Cologne: Walther König, 2019, ill. (exh. cat.)
2018
Brinkmann, Vinzenz, Schrader, Kristin (eds.), 'Handbook to "O Sentimental Machine". An Exhibition featuring William Kentridge', Berlin: Kerber Verlag, 2018, ill. (exh. cat.)
Taylor, Jane, Kentridge, William, 'William Kentridge: That Which We Do Not Remember', Melbourne: Naomi Milgrom Foundation, 2018, ill. (exh. cat.)
Maltz-Leca, Leora, 'William Kentridge. Process as Metaphor & Other Doubtful Enterprises', Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018, ill.
Annandale Galleries (ed.), 'William Kentridge. Right Into Her Arms', Sydney: Annandale Galleries, 2018, ill. (exh. cat.)
2017
Garb, Tamar, Fer, Briony, Koerner, Joseph Leo, 'William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland. Conversations in Letters and Lines', Edinburgh: The Fruitmarket Gallery, 2017, ill. (exh. cat.)
Basualdo, Carlos (ed.), 'William Kentridge: Triumphs and Laments', Berlin: Walther König, 2017, ill.
Blazwick, Iwona, Breitwieser, Sabine (eds.), 'Thick Time. Installationen und Inszenierungen', Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2017, ill. (exh. cat.)
Borja-Villel, Manuel, Liaño, Soledad (eds.), 'William Kentridge. Basta y Sobra', Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2017, ill. (exh. cat.)
Crescentini, Claudio, Pirani, Federica (eds.), 'William Kentridge at the MACRO', Cesena: Manfredi edizioni, 2017, ill. (exh. cat.)
Hirson, Denis, Kentridge, William, 'Footnotes for the Panther. Conversations Between William Kentridge and Denis Hirson', Johannesburg: Fourthwall Books, 2017, ill.
Ussing Seeberg, Mathias, Morris, Rosalind C., Jörgensen, Laerke Rydal, 'William Kentridge. Thick Time' [Louisiana Revy 57.2], Odder: Narayana Press, Humlebaek: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2017, ill. (exh. cat.)
Koerner, Margaret (ed.), 'William Kentridge: Smoke, Ashes, Fable', Brussels: Mercatorfonds, 2017, ill.
Krauss, Rosalind E. (ed.), 'William Kentridge' [October Files 21], Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2017, ill.
Taylor, Jane, 'William Kentridge. Being Led by the Nose', Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017, ill.
2016
Blazwick, Iwona, Breitwieser, Sabine (ed.), 'William Kentridge: Thick Time', London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2016, ill. (exh. cat.)
2015
Bloemheuvel, Marente, Guldemond, Jaap (eds.), 'William Kentridge: More Sweetly Play the Dance', Amsterdam: EYE Filmmuseum / nai010 Publishers, 2015, ill.
Garza, Amanda de la, García Canclini, Néstor, Tone, Lilian, 'William Kentridge. Fortuna', Mexico City: MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, 2015, ill. (exh. cat.)
Kentridge, Matthew, 'The Soho Chronicles: 10 Films by William Kentridge', London: Seagull Publishing, 2015, ill.
Schaschl, Sabine (ed.), 'William Kentridge: The Nose', Cologne: Walther König, Zurich: Museum Haus Konstruktiv, 2015, ill. (exh. cat.)
Solomon, Andrew, Murck, Alfreda, Tinari, Philip (eds.), 'William Kentridge. Notes Towards a Model Opera', London: Walther Koenig Books, Beijing: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 2015, ill.
2014
Tone, Lilian (ed.), 'William Kentridge: Fortuna', Bogota: Planeta, 2014, ill.
Burgio, Valeria, 'William Kentridge', Milan: Postmedia Books, 2014, ill.
Gregory, Bill, 'William Kentridge. SO', Sydney: Annandale Galleries, 2014, ill. (exh. cat.)
2013
Malbert, Rosalind, Krauss, Roger, McCrickard, Kate, 'A Universal Archive. William Kentridge as Printmaker', London: Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2013, ill. (exh. cat.)
Kentridge, William, Morris, Rosalind C., 'That Which Is Not Drawn: Conversations', Kolkata: Seagull Books, 2013
Galison, Peter L., Meyburgh, Catherine, Miller, Philip (et al.), 'The Refusal of Time', Paris: Xavier Barral Publishing, 2013, ill.
Tone, Lilian (ed.), 'William Kentridge: Fortuna', London: Thames & Hudson, 2013, ill.
2012
Tone, Lilian (ed.), 'William Kentridge. Fortuna', Sao Paulo: Instituto Moreira Salles / Fundaçāo Iberê Camargo / Pinacoteca do Estado São Paolo, 2012, ill. (exh. cat.)
Francés, Fernando, Corral, María de, '¿No se unirá usted al baile?', Malaga: Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga, 2012, ill. (exh. cat.)
McCrickard, Kate, 'William Kentridge: WK, Series: Tate Modern Artists', London: Tate Publishing, 2012, ill.
Annadale Galleries (ed.), 'William Kentridge. Universal Archive (Parts 7-23). Films sculptures drawings tapestries etchings', Sydney: Annandale Galleries, 2012, ill. (exh. cat.)
2011
Coumans, Sandra T.J., 'Geschichte und Identität. "Black Box/Chambre Noire" von William Kentridge', Berlin: Regiospectra, 2011, ill.
Galleria Lia Rumma (ed.), 'William Kentridge', Milan: Galleria Lia Rumma, 2011, ill. (exh. cat.)
Dufour, Gary, 'William Kentridge: Shadow Quartet', Perth: AGWA Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2011, ill. (exh. cat.)
Bernadac, Marie-Laure (ed.), 'William Kentridge: Carnets D’Egypte', Paris: Éditions Dilecta / Éditions du Musée du Louvre, 2011, ill.
Barstow, Oliver, Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn, Marx, Gerhard, 'Fire Walker. William Kentridge and Gerhard Marx', Johannesburg: Fourthwall Books, 2011, ill.
2010
Hecker, Judith B., Kentridge, William, 'William Kentridge: Trace. Prints from the Museum of Modern Art', Verona: Trifolio SRL, 2010, ill.
Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn (ed.), 'William Kentridge: Nose. Thirty Etchings', Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, 2010, ill.
2009
Ikezawa, Mari, Kohmoto, Shinji, Nagata, Ellie (et al.), 'William Kentridge: What We See and What We Know, Thinking about history while walking, and thus the drawings began to move', Kyoto: The National Museum of Modern Art, 2009, ill. (exh. cat.)
Rosenthal, Mark (ed.), 'William Kentridge: Five Themes', San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / Norton Museum of Art, New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2009, ill. (exh. cat.)
Balzani, Valentina (ed.), 'William Kentridge. Streets of the City (and Other Tapestries). Strade della città (e altri arazzi)', Verona: Mondadori Electa, 2009, ill. (exh. cat.)
2008
Vattese, Angela, Pasini, Francesca, Taylor, Jane (et al.), 'William Kentridge. (Repeat) From the beginning. Da Capo', Vicenza: Charta, 2008, ill.
Kentridge, William, Miller, Philip, Pam-Grant, Sue, 'I am not me, the horse is not mine', Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, 2008, ill. (exh. cat.)
McDonald, John, 'William Kentridge: Telegrams from the Nose', Sydney: Annandale Galleries, 2008, ill. (exh. cat.)
2007
Basualdo, Carlos (ed.), 'William Kentridge. Tapestries', Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2007, ill. (exh. cat.)
Hickey, Tom (ed.), 'William Kentridge: Fragile Identities', Brighton: University of Brighton, 2007, ill.
Breidbach, Angela, Conrad, Dennis, 'William Kentridge: What will come (has already come)', Frankfurt am Main: Städel Museum / Stroemfeld Verlag, Bremen: Kunsthalle Bremen, 2007, ill. (exh. cat.)
Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn (ed.), 'William Kentridge: Flute', Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, 2007, ill.
2006
Alemani, Cecilia, 'William Kentridge' [Supercontemporanea], Verona: Mondadori Electa, 2006, ill.
Wright, Lesley, Wilson, Kay, Stewart, Susan (et al.), 'William Kentridge Prints', Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, 2006, ill.
Posthofen, Christian (ed.), 'William Kentridge. Thinking Aloud. Conversations with Angela Breidbach', Cologne: Walther König Publishing, 2006, ill.
2005
Krens, Thomas, Villasenor, Maria-Christina, Kentridge, William, 'William Kentridge: Black box / Chambre Noire', Berlin: Deutsche Guggenheim, 2005, ill. (exh. cat.)
McKee, Francis, Woods, Suzanne, 'William Kentridge. Tide Table', Sligo: Model Arts & Niland Gallery, ill. (exh. cat.)
Rosengarten, Ruth, 'Sete Fragmentos para Georges Méliès e outros trabalhos de William Kentridge. Seven Fragments for Georges Méliès and Other Works by William Kentridge', Lisbon: Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, 2005, ill.
Stone, Jennifer Arlene, 'Politeness of Objects. William Kentridge's Noiraille', New York: Javaribook, 2005, ill.
2004
Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn (ed.), 'William Kentridge', Milan: Skira, Rivoli: Castello di Rivoli – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, 2004, ill. (exh. cat.)
Gregory, Bill, 'William Kentridge. Films, Drawings, Printmaking, Sculpture', Sydney: Annandale Galleries, 2004, ill. (exh. cat.)
2001
Benezra, Neal, Boris, Staci, Cameron, Dan (et al.), 'William Kentridge', Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, New York: Harry N Abrams Publishers, 2001, ill. (exh. cat.)
1999
Cameron, Dan, Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn, Coetzee, John M., 'William Kentridge' [Phaidon Contemporary Artist], London/New York: Phaidon Press, 1999, ill.
Walsh, Maria, 'William Kentridge', London: Serpentine Gallery, 1999, ill. (exh. cat.)
1998
Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn, 'William Kentridge', Brussels: Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Munich: Kunstverein München & Neue Galerie Graz, 1998, ill. (exh. cat.)
1997
Ollman, Leah, Davies, Hugh M., 'William Kentridge: Weighing … and Wanting', San Diego: San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, 1997, ill.
Miles, Elza, 'William Kentridge', Grahamstown: 1820 Foundation, 1987, ill. (exh. cat.)
1995
Arnold, Sally, 'Doris Bloom. William Kentridge. Memory and Geography' [Projected Artists – Obiettivo Roma: I/V], Rome: Studio Stefania Miscetti, ill. (exh. cat.)
Tøjner, Poul Erik, 'Memory & Geography. Bloom. Kentridge', Johannesburg: Africus, 1995, ill. (exh. cat.)
1992
Godby, Michael, 'William Kentridge: Drawings for Projection. Four Animated Films', Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, 1992, ill. (exh. cat.)
1987
Miles, Elza, Crump, Alan, 'William Kentridge, 1987. Standard Bank Young Artist Award', Grahamstown: The Broederstroom Press, 1987, ill.
Artist’s Books & Writings
2020
Kentridge, William, McIlleron, Anne (eds.), 'William Kentridge. Waiting for the Sibyl', London: Koenig Books, 2020, ill.
Kentridge, William, Ng, Aimee, 'Constable's White Horse (Frick Diptych)', New York: The Frick Collection, 2020, ill.
2018
Kentridge, William, 'Message from the Library No. 3. Let Us Try for Once. 15 1/2 Thoughts in the Library' [text of a lecture given by William Kentridge, 9 December 2018], New York: Brooklyn Public Library, 2018
Kentridge, William, 'In Verteidigung der weniger guten Idee. Sigmund Freud Vorlesung 2017' [text of a lecture given by William Kentridge, May 2017], Vienna: Turia + Kant Verlag, 2018
Kentridge, William, 'Seis lecciones de dibujo', Buenos Aires: El Hilo de Ariadna, 2018, ill.
2016
Kentridge, William, 'Stop Here: Lecture Notes 2013' [L’Art en écrit 97], Paris: Éditions Jannink, 2016
Kentridge, William, 'NO IT IS!', Cologne: Walther König, 2016, ill.
Kentridge, William, 'Sechs Zeichenstunden', Cologne: Walther König, 2016, ill.
Kentridge, William, 'Sei lezioni di disegno', Monza: Johan & Levi, 2016, ill.
2015
Kentridge, William, Morris, Rosalind C., 'Accounts and Drawings from Underground', Kolkata: Seagull Books, 2015, ill.
Kentridge, William, 'Peripheral Thinking', Beijing: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 2015
Kentridge, William, 'Six Drawing Lessons' [Chinese ed.], Beijing: Beijing United Publishing Co. Ltd, 2015, ill.
Kentridge, William, 'Hurdle' [flipbook], Johannesburg: [self-publishing], 2015
Coovadia, Imraan, Parsons, Cóilín, Kentridge, William (et al.), 'Relocations. Reading Culture in South Africa', Claremont: UCT Press, 2015
2014
Kentridge, William, '2nd Hand Reading', Johannesburg: Fourthwall Books, 2014, ill.
Kentridge, William, 'Six Drawing Lessons' [based on William Kentridge’s 2012 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures], Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014, ill.
2013
Kentridge, William, 'William Kentridge, Thinking on One’s Feet: A Walking Tour of the Studio' [text of a lecture given by William Kentridge, 6 May 2013], Madrid: Ivorypress, 2013
Kentridge, William, Masilo, Dada, 'Return' [flipbook], Johannesburg: [self-publishing], 2013, ill.
2012
Kentridge, William, 'William Kentridge: No, It Is', Johannesburg: Fourthwall Books, 2012, ill.
Kentridge, William, 'De Como Não Fui Ministro d'Estado' [flipbook], Sao Paulo: Instituto Moreira Salles / Fundaçāo Iberê Camargo / Pinacoteca do Estado São Paolo, 2012, ill.
2011
Kentridge, William, 'William Kentridge: Lexicon', Mission Viejo: ASAP Acadia Summer Arts Program, 2011, ill.
2010
Kentridge, William, 'I Am Not Me. The Horse Is Not Mine', in: October, Cambridge, no. 134, Fall 2010, pp. 28-51, ill.
2008
Kentridge, William, 'Everyone Their Own Projector', Valence: Editions Valerie Cudel, 2008, ill.
2005
Kentridge, William (ed.), 'Die Zauberflöte' [libretto of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera with illustrations by William Kentridge], Brussels: La Monnaie, 2005, ill.
2004
Kentridge, William, 'Cyclopedia of Drawing', Annecy: École d'art de l'agglomération d'Annecy, 2004, ill.
2003
Kentridge, William, 'BAC-Kentridge: Journey to the Moon and Fragments for Georges Méliès', Baltic Art Center: Visby, 2003
Kentridge, William, 'Beckmann's Death', in: Rainbird, Sean (ed.), 'Max Beckmann', London: Tate Publishing, 2003
2001
Kentridge, William, 'In Praise of Shadows' [lecture transcript], in: Tone, Lilian (ed.), 'William Kentridge: Fortuna', London: Thames & Hudson, pp. 307-309
1999
Kentridge, William, 'Curs Practic de Gramatica Catalana' [flipbook], Barcelona: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, 1999, ill.
1998
Kentridge, William, 'Tonight…. We Perform' [lecture transcript], in: Puck magazine, France, no.11, 1998
1994
Kentridge, William, 'Fortuna: Neither Programme nor Chance in the Making of Images' [lecture transcript, 1993], in: 'Cycnos: Image et Langage, Problèmes, Approches, Méthodes', in: Cycnos. Image et Langage, Problèmes, Approches, Méthodes, Nice, vol. 11, no. 1, 1994, pp. 163-168
1988
Kentridge, William, 'Landscape in a State of Siege' [text of a lecture given by William Kentridge, 2 July 1988], in: Stet magazine, Johannesburg, November 1988, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 15-18, ill.
1976
Kentridge, William, 'The white man's burden. The ideology of imperialism and the creation of a Rhodesian history', in: Africa Perspective, Nairobi, no. 4, July 1976
Publications
2024
Den Hartog Jager, Hans, Brentjes, Yvonne, Geraerdts, Marjolein, 'My World', Laren: Singer Laren / Zwolle: Wbooks, 2024, pp. 34-36, ill. (exh. cat.)
2021
Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger (ed.), 'Tree Connections. Ein Kunst- und Ausstellungsprojekt von / An art and exhibition project by Klaus Littmann', Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2021, pp. 218-219, ill. (exh. cat.)
2020
Grunenberg, Christoph, Hansen, Dorothee, Fischer-Hausdorf, Eva (eds.), 'REMIX. Die Sammlung. Kunsthalle Bremen', Cologne: Wienand Verlag, 2020, p. 298, ill. (exh. cat.)
Androula, Michael, Toguo, Barthélémy, 'Retours à l’Afrique. Returns to Africa', Bandjoun: Bandjoun Station, pp. 88-93, ill. (exh. cat.)
Sharron, Famous, 'There Were Moments of Transformation', Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia / Art on the Move, 2020, p. 28, ill. (exh. cat.)
2019
Krauss, Rosalind E., 'The Troubles of the Neck', in: October, Cambridge, no. 167, Winter 2019, pp. 171-175, ill.
McCoy, Ann, 'Pulled from the Shadows', in: Performing Arts Journal, Cambridge, no. 122, 2019, pp. 1-8, ill.
2017
Breidbach, Angela, 'Übertragene Körper. Diskurse des Schattens im Werk von Hans-Peter Feldmann, W.G. Sebald und William Kentridge', Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2017
Ryan, Meryl, Brollo, Deidre, Riddle, Naomi (et al.), 'Book Club', Booragul: Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Camperdown: Peachy Print, 2017, ill. (exh. cat.)
The White House Gallery (ed.), 'Exhibition Catalogue 07 June 2017', Sandton: The White House Gallery, 2017, ill. (exh. cat.)
2016
Grimaldi, Mario, 'Pictores. Mani d'artista. Dagli affreschi pompeiani alla pittura contemporanea', Naples: Valtrend editore, 2016, ill.
Bischoff, Ulrich, Lozo, Katarina, de Wit, Gunther (et al.), 'The Power of the Avant-Garde: Now and Then', Tielt: Lannoo Publishers, Brussels: Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, 2016, ill.
Adler, Hans, Gross, Sabine, 'Anschauung und Anschaulichkeit. Visualisierung im Wahrnehmen, Lesen und Denken', Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2016, ill.
Concilio, Carmen, Festa, Maria (eds.), 'Word and Image in Literature and the Visual Arts', Milan: Mimesis Internaional, 2016, ill.
Goodman Gallery (ed.), 'New revolutions. Goodman Gallery at 50, 1966-2016', Cape Town: Goodman Gallery, 2016, ill. (exh. cat.)
Bendazzi, Giannalberto, 'Animation: A World History' [Contemporary Times, vol. 3], Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2016, ill.
Evans, Mark, Kemp, Rick, 'The Routledge companion to Jacques Lecoq', New York: Routledge, 2016, ill.
Gevers, Ine, Bresser, Nina, Ahmed, Nabil (et al.), 'Hacking Habitat. Art of Control. Art, Technology and Social Change', Amsterdam: Niet Normaal Foundation, Rotterdam: Nai010 Publishers, 2016, ill.
Gronau, Barbara, von Hartz, Matthias, Hochleichter, Carolin, 'How to Frame. On the Threshold of Performing and Visual Arts', Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016, ill.
Celant, Germano, Lykins Reich, Megan, Lauf, Cornelia (et al.), 'Wall to wall. Carpets by Artists', Cologne: Walther König, 2016, ill.
Donlon, Bridget, L. Adler, Tracy, 'Pure Pulp. Contemporary Artists Working in Paper at Dieu Donné', Clinton: Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Munich: DelMonico-Prestel, 2016, ill. (exh. cat.)
Wendel-Poray, Denise, 'Painting the Stage. Opera and Art', Milan: Skira, 2016, ill.
Grovier, Kelly, '100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age', London: Thames & Hudson, 2016, ill.
Cox, Geoff, Lund, Jacob (ed.), 'The Last Resident' [The Contemporary Condition, vol. 12], Aarhus: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2019, ill.
2015
Butcher, Clare, Drake, Carolyn H., 'The Poetry in Between. South-South. A poesia entre sul-sul', Cape Town: Goodman Gallery, 2015, ill. (exh. cat.)
Kholeif, Omar, 'Moving Image', London: Whitechapel Gallery, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015, ill.
Heyler, Joanne, Schad, Ed, Beck, Chelsea (eds.), 'Thre Broad Collection', Los Angeles: The Broad, Munich: DelMonico-Prestel, 2015, ill.
Fleming, Jeff, Vicario, Gilbert, DeCarbo, Ed, 'Field, Road, Cloud. Art and Africa', Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 2015, ill. (exh. cat.)
Kruger, Klaus, Schalhorn, Andreas, Werner, Elke A., 'Albrecht Dürer & William Kentridge: Double Vision', Munich: Sieveking Verlag, 2015, ill. (exh. cat.)
Taylor, Jane, 'Restaging Ubu and the Truth Commission: 20 Years on' [with drawings by William Kentridge], Cape Town: Juta & Co Ltd, 2015, ill.
Wedekind, Frank, 'The Lulu Plays' [with sixty-seven drawings by William Kentridge|, San Francisco: Arion Press, 2015, ill.
2013
Kellner, Clive, Bourriaud, Nicolas, Enwezor, Okwui (et al.), 'Kendell Geers, 1988-2012', Munich/London/New York: Prestel, 2013, ill.
Costa, Antonio, 'Viaggio sulla luna. Voyage dans la lune (Georges Méliès, 1902). Seguito da L'Automa di Scorsese e La Moka di Kentridge', Milan/Udine: Mimesis-Cinema, 2013, ill.
Conland, Natasha, 'A Puppet, a Pauper, a Pirate, a Poet, a Pawn and a King. From the Naomi Milgrom Art Collection', Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tam̄̄aki, 2013, ill. (exh. cat.)
Kruger, Loren, 'Imagining the Edgy City. Writing, Performing, and Building Johannesburg', Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, ill.
Ange Bordas, Marie (ed.), 'Geografias em Movimento' [Caderno Videobrasil 9], Sao Paulo: Edições SESC/Associação Cultural Videobrasil, 2013, ill.
FIz, Alberto, 'Bookhouse. La Forma del Libro', Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana, 2013, ill.
Kalb, Peter R., 'Art since 1980. Charting the Contemporary', London: Laurence King Publishing, 2013, ill.
Aisemberg, Paula, de Galbert, Antoine (eds.), 'My Joburg. Guide de la scène artistique. Guide of the artistic scene', Lyon: Fage, 2013, ill.
Borman, Johans, Taljaard, Zach, 'In the shadow of the rainbow. FNB Joburg Art Fair 2013', Cape Town: Johans Borman Fine Art, 2013, ill.
Malbert, Roger, 'Drawing People. The Human Figure in Contemporary Art', New York: D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, 2015, ill.
Huyssen, Andreas, 'William Kentridge and Nalini Malani: The Shadow Play as Medium of Memory', Vicenza: Charta, 2013, ill.
2012
Breidbach, Angela, 'Übertragene Körper. Diskurse des Schattens im Werk von Hans-Peter Feldmann, W.G. Sebald und William Kentridge', Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2012, ill.
Wendt, Selene, 'The Storytellers. Narratives in International Contemporary Art', Milan: Skira, Oslo: Stenersen Museum, 2012, ill. (exh. cat.)
Bosland, Joost, Perryer, Sophie, Richards, Colin, 'Trade Routes Revisited. A Project Marking the 15th Anniversary of the Second Johannesburg Biennale: 1997-2012', Cape Town: Stevenson, 2012, ill. (exh. cat.)
Dreishpoon, Douglas, Grachos, Louis, Pesanti, Heather (et al.), 'Decade. Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012', New York: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2012, ill. (exh. cat.)
Scharrer, Eva, Anastas, Ayreen (ed.), 'Documenta 13. Das Begleitbuch. The Guidebook' [vol. 3/3], Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012, ill. (exh. cat.)
Finger, Brad, Weidemann, Christiane, '50 Contemporary Artists You Should Know', Munich/NewYork: Prestel, 2012, ill.
Maitland Regional Art Gallery (ed.), 'Paperworks. Nine Exhibitions', Maitland: Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2012, ill. (exh. cat.)
Siopis, Penelope (ed.), 'The New Church. Works from the collection of Piet Viljoen', Cape Town: Thenewchurch, 2012, ill.
Levin-Rojer, Marsha (ed.), 'Drawing Beyond. An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing', Princeton: Arts Council of Princeton, 2012, ill. (exh. cat.)
König, Kasper, Trummer, Thomas, Curtis, Penelope, 'Before the Law. Post-War Sculptures and Spaces of Contemporary Art. Vor dem Gesetz. Skulpturen der Nachkriegszeit und Räume der Gegenwartskunst', Cologne: Walther König, 2012, ill.
Bismuth, Pierre, Krčma, Ed, 'Motion Capture. Drawing and the Moving Image', Cork: Glucksman Gallery/University College Cork, 2012, ill. (exh. cat.)
Höller, Silvia, 'Der Blick, das Wort, die Geste. Sammlung Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein', Innsbruck: RLB Raiffeisenlandesbank Kunstbrücke, 2012, ill. (exh. cat.)
Tarnowski, Stefan (ed.), 'Revolution vs revolution', Beirut: Beirut Art Center, 2012, ill. (exh. cat.)
Kentridge, William, Galison, Peter L., '100 Notes – 100 Thoughts / 100 Notizen – 100 Gedanken N°009. William Kentridge & Peter L. Galison. The Refusal of Time / Die Ablehnung der Zeit', Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2012, ill.
2011
Krauss, Rosalind E., 'Under Blue Cup', Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2011, ill.
2010
Stewart, Susan, 'The Open Studio. Essays on Art and Aesthetics', Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010, pp. 51-66, ill.
Gough, Maria, 'Kentridge’s Nose', in: October, Cambridge, no. 134, Fall 2010, pp. 3-27, ill.
2009
Handspring Puppet Company (ed.), 'Handspring Puppet Company', Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, 2009, ill.
2007
Meneghelli, Vittorio, 'La mia vita. La mia collezione. Memorie e pezzi selezionati dalla collezione di Vittorio Meneghelli. My Life, My Collection. Memoir and Selected Pieces from the Collection of Vittorio Meneghelli', Germiston: Totem Galleries, 2007, ill.
2005
Birnbaum, Daniel, De Salvo, Donna, Gombrich, E.H. (et al.), 'pressPLAY. Contemporary Artists in Conversation', London: Phaidon, 2005, ill.
Heinrich, Christoph, Heinzelmann, Markus (eds.), 'Rückkehr ins All', Osfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2000, ill. (exh. cat.)
Dexter, Emma, 'Vitamin D. New Perspectives in Drawing', London/New York: Phaidon, 2005, ill.
Gehman, Chris, Reinke, Steve (eds.), 'The Sharpest Point. Animation at the End of Cinema', Toronto: YYZ Books / Ottawa International Animation Festival, 2005, ill.
Malbert, Roger, Njami, Simon, Elliot, David (et al.), 'Africa Remix. Contemporary Art of a Continent', Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2005, ill.
Bennett, Jill, Fenner, Felicity, Kelly, Liam, 'Prepossession', Sydney: Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 2005, ill. (exh. cat.)
Alvim, Fernando, Munder, Heike, Ulf, Wuggenig (eds.), 'Next Flag. The African Sniper Reader', Zurich: JRP Ringier / Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 2005, ill.
Platow, Raphaela, 'Dreaming Now', Waltham: Rose Art Museum, 2005, ill. (exh. cat.)
2004
Golinski, Hans Günther, Hiekisch-Picard, Sepp (eds.), 'New Identities. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Südafrika', Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2004, ill. (exh. cat.)
Varadinis, Mirjam (ed.), 'Parkett. 20 Years of Artists' Collaborations', Zurich: Kunsthaus Zürich, 2004, ill. (exh. cat.)
González de Durana, Javier (ed.), 'Laocoonte devorado', Vitoria-Gasteiz: ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Granada: Diputación de Granada, Salamanca: DA2 Domus Artium 2002, 2004, ill. (exh. cat.)
Perryer, Sophie (ed.), '10 Years 100 Artists. Art in a Democratic South Africa', Cape Town: Bell-Roberts Publishers/Struik Publishers, 2004, ill.
Bedford, Emma, Dawes, Nic, 'Tremor. Contemporary South African Art', Brussels: Centre d'Art Contemporain, Cape Town: Iziko Museums of Cape Town, 2004, ill. (exh. cat.)
Wye, Deborah, Figura, Starr, Hecker, Judith (et al.), 'Artists & Prints. Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art', New York: MoMA Museum of Modern Art, 2004, ill.
Mason, Ngahiraka, McDonald, Ewen (eds.), 'Public/private. Tumatanui/tumataiti. The 2nd Auckland Triennial', Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery, 2004, ill. (exh. cat.)
Abate, Michele, Larner, Melissa (eds.), 'Faces in the Crowd. Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today. Volti nella folla. Immagini dell vita moderna da Manet a oggi', Milan: Skira, 2004, ill. (exh. cat.)
Berger, Maurice, Ewald, Wendy, Roediger, David (et al.), 'White. Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art', Baltimore: Center for Art and Visual Culture / UMBC University of Maryland Baltimore County, New York: International Center of Photography, 2004, ill. (exh. cat.)
Cherry, Deborah (ed.), 'Art : History : Visual : Culture', Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, ill.
Lemonnier, Arlette (ed.), 'Le dessus des cartes. Art et cartographie', Brussels: ISELP Institut Supérieur pour l'Étude du Langage Plastique, 2004, ill. (exh. cat.)
EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (ed.), 'Synopsis 3. Testimonies Between Fiction & Reality', Athens: EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, 2004, ill. (exh. cat.)
Laurent, Jacob, 'Black Box. Les Afriques', Liege: Espace 251 Nord, 2004, ill.
Ende, Jeanine van den, 'The ID of South African Artists', Amsterdam: Stichting Art et Theatre, 2004, ill. (exh. cat.)
Lagos, Luisa (ed.), 'Memorials of Identity. New Media from the Rubell Family Collection', Fort Myers: Florida Gulf Coast University, 2004, ill. (exh. cat.)
2003
Augaitis, Daina (ed.), 'For the Record. Drawing Contemporary Life', Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2003, ill.
Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn (ed.), 'Animations', New York: MoMA PS1, 2003, ill. (exh. cat.)
Cissé, Youssouf Tata, Fabian, Johannes, Luntumbue, Toma Muteba (et al.), 'Transferts', Brussels: Africalia, 2003, ill. (exh. cat.)
Cork, Richard, 'Breaking Down the Barriers. Art in the 1990s', New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003, ill.
Ferguson, Bruce W., Hirsch, Faye, 'Reflection. Seven Years in Print', New York: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery / Columbia University, 2003, ill. (exh. cat.)
Hanhardt, John G., Spector, Nancy, 'Moving Pictures. Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum Collections', New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, London: Thames and Hudson, 2003, ill. (exh. cat.)
Irvin, Polly, 'Directing for the Stage' [English ed.], Hove: RotoVision, 2003, ill.
Irvin, Polly, 'Directores. Artes Escénicas' [Spanish ed.], Barcelona: Océano, 2003, ill.
Leahy, Cathy (ed.), 'Prints & Drawings in the International Collections of the National Gallery of Victoria', Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2003, ill. (exh. cat.)
McLean, Ian, 'Postcolonial Traffic: William Kentridge and Aboriginal Desert Painters', in: Third Text, Abingdon-on-Thames, vol. 17, no. 3, 2003, pp. 227-240, ill.
Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (ed.), 'Tech/no/zone. Contemporary Media Art' Taipei: Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, 2003, ill. (exh. cat.)
Schuppli, Madeleine (ed.), 'Gesellschaftsbilder. Images of Society', Thun: Kunstmuseum Thun, 2003, ill. (exh. cat.)
Sherman, Louisa, Hofmeyr, Dianne, 'Printmaking' [Directions in Art], Oxford: Heinemann Library, 2003, ill.
Siebrits, Warren, 'Prints and Multiples', Johannesburg: Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art, 2003, ill. (exh. cat.)
Stevenson, Michael, Rosholt, Annabel, 'Moving in Time and Space. Shifts Between Abstraction and Representation in Post-War South African Art', Cape Town: Michael Stevenson Contemporary, 2003, ill.
Trummer, Thomas (ed.), 'Trauer', Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 2003, ill. (exh. cat.)
Turner, Caroline, Sever, Nancy (eds.), 'Witnessing to Silence. Art and Human Rights', Canberra: Australian National University, 2003, ill. (exh. cat.)
Weibel, Peter, Shaw, Jeffrey, 'Future Cinema. The Cinematic Imaginary After Film', Cambridge/London: MIT Press, 2003, ill. (exh. cat.)
Weintraub, Linda, 'Making Contemporary Art. How Today's Artists Think and Work', London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, ill.
Colombo, Paolo (ed.), 'Le collezioni. Acquisizioni di arte contemporanea', Turin: Hopefulmonster Editore, 2003, ill. (exh. cat.)
Foster, Carter E., Grove, Jeffrey D., Shaw Cable, Patrick (et al.), 'Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection', Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003, ill. (exh. cat.)
Manchester, Clare (ed.), '10e Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement. 10th Biennial of Moving Images', Geneva: JRP Editions, 2003, ill. (exh. cat.)
Stone, Jennifer Arlene, 'Freud's Body Ego or Memorabilia of Grief. Lucian Freud & William Kentridge', New York: JavariBook, 2003, ill.
2002
Smith, Trevor (ed.), 'The Divine Comedy: Francisco Goya, Buster Keaton, William Kentridge', Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2002, ill. (exh. cat.)
Malbert, Roger, Steeds, Lucy (eds.), 'Apparition. The Action of Appearing', Bristol: Arnolfini Gallery, 2002, ill. (exh. cat.)
Siebrits, Warren, 'States of Emergence. South Africa 1960-1990', Johannesburg: Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art, 2002, ill.
Rosenthal, Stephanie (ed.), 'Stories. Erzählstrukturen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst', Munich: Haus der Kunst, Cologne: DuMont, 2002, ill. (exh. cat.)
Bloomberg, Tamara, Davies, Hugh M., Kamps, Toby (et al.), 'Lateral thinking. Art of the 1990s', San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002, ill. (exh. cat.)
Dávila, Mela (ed.), 'MACBA Collection. Itinerary', Barcelona: MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, ill.
Berkeley Square Gallery (ed.), 'The Print Collection. Modern & Contemporary Prints', London: Berkeley Square Gallery, ill. (exh. cat.)
Stevenson, Michael, 'South African Art 1850-2002', Johannesburg: The Goodman Gallery, 2002, ill.
Iida, Takayo, 'Screen Memories: Imitation of Life', Mito-shi: Art Tower Mito, 2002, ill. (exh. cat.)
Luneau, Michel, Michon, Pierre, Lescure, Jean (et al.), 'Seul le dessin. Fernando Canovas, Philippe Cognée, Éric Fonteneau, William Kentridge, David Ryan, Vladimir Velickovic', Nantes: Éditions Joca Seria, 2002, ill.
Lewison, Jeremy, 'Premio Biella per l'incisione 2002', Turin/London/Venice: Umberto Allemandi & Co, 2002, ill. (exh. cat.)
documenta (ed.), 'documenta 11', Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2002, ill. (exh. cat.)
de Zegher, Catherine, 'Drawing (as) Center. 25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition' [Drawing Papers 31], New York: The Drawing Center, 2002, ill. (exh. cat.)
Landau, Suzanne, Amar, Talia, Zalmona, Yigal (et al.), 'Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art?', Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 2002, ill. (exh. cat.)
2001
Godby, Michael, 'Hogarth in Johannesburg. A Rake's Progress. Robert Hodgins. Marriage-a-la-Mode. Deborah Bell. Industry & Idleness. William Kentridge' [etchings and engravings by Robert Hodgins, Deborah Bell and William Kentridge], Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 2001, ill.
Golden, Thelma, Sollins, Susan, Sollins, Marybeth (et al.), 'Art 21. Art in the Twenty-First Century' [Vol. 5], New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001, ill.
Babias, Marius, Rolling, Stella, Wappler, Friederike, Whjudi, Claudia, 'Arbeit Essen Angst', Essen: Stiftung Industriedenkmalpflege u. Geschichtskultur, 2001, ill. (exh. cat.)
Picon-Vallin, Béatrice (ed.), 'La Scène et les Images. Les Voies de la Création Théâtrale', Paris: CNRS, 2001
Di Pietrantonio, Giacinto, 'In fumo. Arte, fumetto, comunicazione. Art, comics, communication', Bergamo: Lubrina, 2001, ill. (exh. cat.)
Kellner, Ronel, Hobbs, Philippa, 'Lines of Connection. An Exhibition by Artists from Cameroon & South Africa', Johannesburg: MTN Art Institute, 2001, ill. (exh. cat.)
Jaukkuri, Maaretta, Rogoff, Irit, Papastergiadis, Nikos, 'Ars 01. Unfolding Perspectives. Avautuvia näköaloja', Helsinki: Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, 2001, ill. (exh. cat.)
2000
Krauss, Rosalind, '"The Rock". William Kentridge's Drawings for Projection', in: October, Cambridge, no. 92, Spring 2000, pp. 3-35, ill.
Pardo, Tania (ed.), 'Miradas Críticas En Torno a la Colección MUSAC', Barcelona: Actar-D / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, 2000, ill.
Wettengl, Kurt, 'Das Gedächtnis der Kunst. Geschichte und Erinnerung in der Kunst der Gegenwart', Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000, ill. (exh. cat.)
Picton, John, Law, Jennifer, 'Cross currents. Contemporary art practice in South Africa', Street: Atkinson Gallery, 2000, ill. (exh. cat.)
Craig-Martin, Michael, Massey, Doreen, Blazwick, Iwona (et al.), 'Tate Modern. The Handbook', London: Tate Publishing, 2000, ill.
Varnedoe, Kirk, Antonelli, Paola, Siegel, Joshua, 'Modern Contemporary. Art at MoMA since 1980', New York: MoMA Museum of Modern Art, 2000, ill.
Oliveira Farkas, Solange (ed.), 'Mostra Africana de Arte Contemporânea', Sao Paulo: SESC, 2000, ill. (exh. cat.)
Zweite, Armin (ed.), 'Ich ist etwas Anderes. Kunst am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts', Dusseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2000, ill. (exh. cat.)
Herbert, Lynn (ed.), 'Outbound. Passages from the 90’s', Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 2000, ill. (exh. cat.)
Heinrich, Barbara (ed.), 'The Song of the Earth. Das Lied von der Erde', Kassel: Museum Fridericianum, 2000, ill. (exh. cat.)
1999
Kunstforeningen (ed.), 'Akt 1. Scenekunst og billedkunst', Copenhagen: Kunstforeningen, 1999, ill. (exh. cat.)
Frankel, David S. (ed.), 'Carnegie International 1999/2000', Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1999, ill. (exh. cat.)
Baraitser, Marion (ed.), 'Theatre of Animation. Contemporary Adult Puppet Plays in Context' [Contemporary Theatre Review 9.4], Newark: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999, ill.
Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló (ed.), 'A Sangre y Fuego', Valencia: Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló, 1999, ill. (exh. cat.)
Fillin-Yeh, Susan, 'William Kentridge. Films and Prints' [leaflet], Portland: Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, 1999, ill. (exh. cat.)
Scheps, Marc, Dziewior, Yilmaz, Thiemann, Barbara M. (eds.), 'Kunstwelten im Dialog. Von Gauguin zur globalen Gegenwart', Cologne: DuMont / Museum Ludwig, 1999, ill. (exh. cat.)
Bonami, Francesco, 'Powder', Aspen: Aspen Art Museum, 1999, ill. (exh. cat.)
Bonami, Francesco, Obrist, Hans-Ulrich (eds.), 'Sogni. Dreams' [XLVIII Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia; project of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte], Rome: Castelvecchi Arte, 1999, ill.
CAC Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie (ed.), '13èmes rencontres vidéo art plastique', Hérouville Saint-Clair: Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, 1999, ill. (exh. cat.)
Rabie, Bozzie, Bless, Frits (eds.), '"Rewind" Fast Forward.ZA. New Work from South Africa', Apeldoom: Van Reekum Museum, 1999, ill. (exh. cat.)
1998
Friis-Hansen, Dana, Herbert, Lynn M., Irvine, Alexandra, 'Projected allegories', Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 1998, ill. (exh. cat.)
Levy, Elizabeth, 'The Hugo Boss Prize 1998', New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1998, ill. (exh. cat.)
Bonami, Francesco (ed.), 'Unfinished history', Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1998, ill. (exh. cat.)
Morrison, Toni, Said, Edward, Robbins, David (et al.), 'Cream. Contemporary art in culture. 100 curators, 10 writers, 100 artists', London: Phaidon, 1998, ill.
Kastner, Jeffrey, Wallis, Brian, 'Land and Evironmental Art', London: Phaidon, 1998, ill.
Nuttall, Sarah, Coetzee, Carli, 'Negotiating the Past. The Making of Memory in South Africa', Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1998, ill.
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo (ed.), 'XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros', Sao Paulo: Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 1998, ill. (exh. cat.)
Bossé, Laurence, Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn, Obrist, Hans Ulrich (ed.), 'La Ville, le Jardin, La Mémoire' [La Mémoire], Rome: Villa Medici – Académie de France à Rome, Milan: Charta, Paris: Paris Musées, 1998, ill. (exh. cat.)
Pinto, Roberto (ed.), 'Facts & Fiction. Arte e narrazione', Milan: Comune di Milano, ill.
Taylor, Jane, 'Ubu and the Truth Commission' [with drawings by William Kentridge], Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 1998, ill.
1997
Doepel, Rory, 'Ubu: +- 101, William Kentridge, Robert Hodgins, Deborah Bell', Johannesburg: French Institute of South Africa / University of the Witwatersrand, 1997, ill. (exh. cat.)
Weibel, Peter (ed.), 'Inklusion: Exklusion. Versuch einer neuen Kartografie der Kunst im Zeitalter von Postkoloniasnisme und globaler Migration', Ostfildern: DuMont, 1997, ill.
Bonami, Francesco (ed.), 'Delta', Paris: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1997, ill. (exh. cat.)
Smuts, Helene, Clark, Sally, 'Collaborations, 1987-1997. Kentridge, Hodgins, Bell. A Resource for Teachers and Learners', Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery, 1997, ill.
Koscevic, Zelimir, 'Kartografowie. Projekcje geo-gnostyczne' [Cartographers. Geo-gnostic Projection for the 21st Century], Zagreb: Muzej suvremene umjetnosti, 1997, ill. (exh. cat.)
Bonami, Francesco, Friedman, Thomas L., Grachos, Louis, 'Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions', Santa Fe: SITE Santa Fe, 1997, ill. (exh. cat.)
Palazzo delle Esposizioni (ed.), 'Città/Natura: Mostra Internazionale di Arte Contemporanea', Rome: Fratelli Palombi, 1997, ill. (exh. cat.)
Bedford, Emma, Martin, Marilyn, Taylor, Jane, 'Contemporary South African Art 1985-1995 from the South African National Gallery Permanent Collection', Cape Town: South African National Gallery, 1997, ill. (exh. cat.)
1996
Davis, Geoffrey V., Fuchs, Anne (eds.), 'Theatre and Change in South Africa', Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996, ill.
Williamson, Sue, Jamal, Ashraf, 'Art in South Africa: The Future Present', Cape Town: David Philip, 1996, ill.
Bonami, Francesco (ed.), 'Campo 6. Il Villaggio Spirale. The Spiral Village', Milan: Skira, 1996, ill. (exh. cat.)
1995
Baykal, Emre, Babias, Marius, Block, René, '4. Uluslararasi Instanbul Bienali' [4th International Istanbul Biennale], Istanbul: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, 1995, ill. (exh. cat.)
Powell, Ivor, 'On the road. Works by 10 Southern African artists', Sandton: Goodman Gallery, 1995, ill. (exh. cat.)
Danby, Nicola, Thomson, Georgina, Fuller, Natasha, 'First National Bank Vita Art Now', Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery, 1995, ill. (exh. cat.)
Bowie, David, 'Mayibuye i Afrika. An Exhibition of Contemporary South African Art', London: Bernard Jacobson Gallery, 1995, ill. (exh. cat.)
Taylor, Jane, 'Transitions. Contemporary art from the Republic of South Africa' [leaflet], Bath: Bath Festivals Trust, 1995, ill. (exh. cat.)
1994
Jouannais, Jean-Yves (ed.), 'Un art contemporain d'Afrique du Sud', Paris: Plume, 1994, ill.
1993
Fuchs, Rudi, 'Zuiderkruis. 27 Zuidafrikaanse kunstenaars' [Southern Cross. 27 South African Artists], Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1993, ill. (exh. cat.)
1990
Godby, Michael, 'Hogarth in Johannesburg. Etchings and Engravings by Robert Hughes, Deborah Bell and William Kentridge', Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 1990, ill.
1988
Ogilvie, Grania, Graff, Carol, 'The dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors', Johannesburg: Everard Read, 1988, ill.
Bunn, David, Taylor, Jane (eds.), 'From South Africa. New Writing, Photographs, and Art', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988, pp. 83-87
Press
2023
Tallman, Susan, 'What Happens at the Edge?', in: The New York Review of Books, 21 December 2023, ill.
McCoy, Ann, 'William Kentridge. Oh To Believe in Another World', in: The Brooklyn Rail, October 2023, ill.
Boas, Natasha, 'An Interview with William Kentridge. ‘Old Questions Don’t Disappear’', in: The Believer, 26 July 2023, ill.
2022
Ollman, Leah, 'Why Artist William Kentridge Is Embracing Shadows in his New Broad Show', in: Los Angeles Times, 2 December 2022, ill.
Aspden, Peter, 'William Kentridge. ‘The History of the 20th Century Shows Us the Danger of all Claims to Certainty’', in: The Financial Times, 21 October 2022, ill.
Searle, Adrian, 'William Kentridge Review. The Sound and the Fury', in: The Guardian, 20 September 2022, ill.
Nwagbou, Azu, 'Renaissance Man', in: Wallpaper, October 2022, ill. also on the cover
2021
Larkin, Daniel, 'The Starkly Poignant Prints of William Kentridge', on: hyperallergic.com, 8 April 2021, ill.
2020
Maia, Elisa, 'William Kentridge', in: DASartes, Brazil, no. 101, 2020, pp. 76-91, cover, ill.
2019
Farago, Jason, 'William Kentridge Brings "Wozzeck" Into the Trenches', on: nytimes.com, 26 December 2019, ill.
Geering, Matthias (ed.), 'William Kentridge. Kunstmuseum Basel' [interview with Josef Helfenstein, Director of the Kunstmuseum Basel], in: Artinside, Basel, Summer 2019, cover, pp. 6-9, ill.
Milne, Grant (ed.), 'William Kentridge', in: Artist Talk Magazine, Leicester, no. 9, July 2019, pp. 52-57, ill.
O’Toole, Sean, 'William Kentridge’s Indictment of Colonial and Apartheid Injustice', on: frieze.com, 26 September 2019, ill.
Taylor, Jane, 'The Shadow of the Object May be a Sound. Seeing Voices in William Kentridge', in: ArtAfrica, Cape Town, no. 17, September 2019, pp. 30-43, ill.
Vernissage TV, 'William Kentridge: A Poem That Is Not Our Own / Kunstmuseum Basel' [report on the occasion of the exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel], on: vernissage.tv, 10 June 2019
2018
Farago, Jason, 'The African Toll of the Great War, in Song and Shadows', on: nytimes.com, 6 December 2018, ill.
Belcove, Julie, 'William Kentridge Tackles the History of Apartheid and Colonialism in His Latest Production', on: wsj.com, 4 December 2018, ill.
Aspden, Peter, 'William Kentridge and the forgotten victims of Africa’s Great War', on: ft.com, 6 July 2018, ill.
___, 'William Kentridge: Universal Archive', in: VENÜ, Fairfield, no. 38, Spring 2018, pp. 52-55, ill.
Van Schalkwyk, Jaco, 'Deco Icon: William Kentridge', in: Elle Decoration South Africa, Cape Town, April 2018, pp. 134-135, ill.
Wexner Center for the Arts, 'Margaret K. Koerner: William Kentridge / Smoke, Ashes, Fable' [video record of a lecture by Margaret K. Koerner at Wexner Center for the Arts], on: youtube.com/wexartsvideo, 8 March 2018
2016
Bhabha, Homi K., 'Processional Ethics: William Kentridge’s More Sweetly Play the Dance', in: Artforum, New York, vol. 55, no. 2, October 2016, pp. 230-239, ill.
McCoy, Ann, 'William Kentridge in Conversation with Ann McCoy', in: The Brooklyn Rail, New York, May 2016, pp. 57-59, ill.
IKS Institut für Kunstdokumentation, 'NO IT IS! William Kentridge / Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin' [film by Ralph Goertz], on: iks-medienarchiv.de, Mai 2016
2015
Ross, Alex, 'Desperadoes', on: newyorker.com, 23 November 2015, ill.
McCoy, Ann, 'William Kentridge Takes New York', in: The Brooklyn Rail, New York, December 2015-January 2016, pp. 24-25, ill.
2014
Koerner, Joseph Leo, Koster Koerner, Margaret, 'Whichever Page You Open. Joseph Leo Koerner and Margaret Koster Koerner on William Kentridge', in: Artforum, New York, vol. 52, no. 5, January 2014, pp. 91-92, ill.
2013
Maltz-Leca, Leora, 'Process-Procession. William Kentridge and the Process of Change', in: The Art Bulletin, New York, no. 95.1, pp. 139-165, ill.
Maltz-Leca, Leora, 'Spectres of the Original and the Liberties of Repetition', in: African Arts, Los Angeles, vol. 46, no. 4, Winter 2013, pp. 32-45, ill.
Neef, Sonja A. J., 'Im Erdorbit. Sternbild Koffer: planetarische Ästhetik in William Kentridges Felix in Exile' in: GRM Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift [Der babylonische Planet. Kultur, Übersetzung, Dekonstruktion unter den Bedingungen der Globalisierung], Heidelberg, no. 53, 2013, ill.
2012
E. Krauss, Rosalind, 'Dialectic of Enlightenment. Rosalind E. Krauss on William Kentridge’s Norton Lectures', in: Arforum, New York, vol. 50, no. 10, Summer 2012, pp.121-122, ill.
Koerner, Margaret K., 'Death, Time, Soup: A Conversation with William Kentridge and Peter Galison', in: nybooks.com, 30 June 2012, ill.
2010
Maltz-Leca, Leora, 'Taking Public Liberties. Three grace in an African metropolis', in: Public Art Review, St. Paul, no. 43, Fall-Winter 2010, pp. 30-33, cover, ill.
O’Brien, Geoffrey, 'Giving Gogol His Head', on: nybooks.com, 29 April 2010, ill.
Maltz-Leca, Leora, 'The Outlaws Retort: William Kentridge in New York', in: Art South Africa, 2010, pp. 92-95, ill.
2004
Bick Productions, 'Point of View. An Anthology of the Moving Image' [film directed by Ilene Kurtz-Kretschmar and Caroline Bourgeois], 2004
2001
Curiger, Bice, Burckhardt, Jacqueline, 'Parkett. Tracey Emin, William Kentridge, Gregor Schneider', Zurich, no. 63, December 2001, ill.
Gilbert, Helen, 'Postcolonial plays. An anthology', London/New York: Routledge, 2001, ill.
1999
Westdeutscher Rundfunk, 'William Kentridge. Drawing the Passing' [video record; written and directed by Maria Anna Tappeiner and Reinhard Wulf], 1999
1998
Taylor, Jane, 'William Kentridge. Spherical and Without Exits. Thoughts on William Kentridge's anamorphic film What Will Come (Has Already Come)', in: Art & Australia, Melbourne, vol. 36, no. 2, Summer 1998, pp. 609-623, ill.
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