2000 to 2009
2000
WORK
Creates Stair Procession, long-term installation, for the “Vertical Painting” series, MoMA PS1, New York
EXHIBITIONS
William Kentridge: Procession (solo), Annandale Galleries, Sydney
William Kentridge (solo), Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
William Kentridge: New Work (solo), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Procession: Sculpture by William Kentridge (solo), Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
2001
LIFE
Moves studio into dedicated building in the garden of family home in Houghton
WORK
Makes Medicine Chest, video rear-projected on medicine chest mirror, animated film, 35mm, video and DVD transfer, 5:50 min
Creates animation and directs Zeno at 4 a.m., multimedia shadow oratorio, with Handspring Puppet Company, libretto by Jane Taylor, score by Kevin Volans
EXHIBITIONS
William Kentridge (solo), Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; travels to New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
William Kentridge (solo), Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994 (group), curated by Okwui Enwezor, with Rory Bester, Lauri Firstenberg, Chika Okeke-Agulu and Mark Nash, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
Shanghai Spirit (group), 3rd Shanghai Biennale, curated by Hou Hanru, Toshio Shimizu, Li Xu and Zhang Qing, Shanghai Art Museum
2002
WORK
Makes Zeno Writing, 35mm animated film using charcoal and pastel drawing, footage of theatre performance, documentary material from World War One, transferred to video, 6:00 min
Creates animation and directs production of Confessions of Zeno, multimedia shadow oratorio, with Handspring Puppet Company, libretto by Jane Taylor, score by Kevin Volans
EXHIBITIONS
William Kentridge (solo), Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan
William Kentridge (solo), Annandale Galleries, Sydney
William Kentridge: Zeno Writing (solo), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2003
WORK
Makes Tide Table, 35mm animated film transferred to video, 8:50 min, ninth animated film in series Drawings for Projection
Makes 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès, Day for Night and Journey to the Moon, installation of eight projections, duration between 1:20 and 7:10 min
Makes Automatic Writing, 35mm animated film, video transfer, 2:38 min
Makes Learning the Flute, 35mm animated film, video transfer, 8:02 min, projected on blackboard
EXHIBITIONS
William Kentridge (solo), Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
William Kentridge: Journey to the Moon and 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès (solo), Baltic Art Center, Visby
William Kentridge (solo), Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar (award exhibition)
AWARDS
Wins 6th Sharjah Biennial Prize, United Arab Emirates
Kaisserring Prize, Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar
2004
WORK
Nine Drawings for Projection, outdoor film projection accompanied by live music by Philip Miller, Spier, Cape Town, travels to Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, Kliptown, Soweto, Museum of Modern Art, New York
EXHIBITIONS
William Kentridge (solo), Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin; travels to K20/21, Düsseldorf, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Miami Art Central
William Kentridge (solo), Art 3 and la CRAC, Valence, travels to Musée Chateau d’Annecy, Annecy
William Kentridge (solo), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
William Kentridge (solo), Annandale Galleries, Sydney
William Kentridge Prints (solo), Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, travels to College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio
William Kentridge (solo), Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
William Kentridge (solo), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent (group), curated by Simon Njami, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, travels to Hayward Gallery, London, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and ends Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2007
AWARDS
Doctor of Literature Honoris Causa, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
2005
WORK
Directs Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), La Monnaie, Brussels, travels to Lille, Caen, Tel Aviv, Naples, Geneva, New York, also Artscape, Cape Town, Civic Centre, Johannesburg, Opéra de Rouen Haute Normandie, Rouen, La Scala, Milan, Théatre des Champs-Elysée, Paris, New National Theater, Tokyo
Creates Preparing the Flute, miniature theatre with drawings (charcoal, pastel and coloured pencil on paper) and front and rear projections from 35mm animated film, video transfer, 21:06 min
Creates Black Box/Chambre Noire, miniature theatre with drawings (charcoal, pastel, coloured pencil and collage on paper), mechanical puppets, and back and front projection, including 35mm animation and documentary footage, video transfer, 22:00 min
EXHIBITIONS
William Kentridge (solo), Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
William Kentridge (solo), Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo, travels to Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, and Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
William Kentridge: Black Box/Chambre Noire (solo), Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin, travels to Johannesburg Art Gallery, Museum Höxter-Corvey, Höxter and Museum der Moderne Salzburg
William Kentridge (solo), Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples
William Kentridge: 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès (solo), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Experience of Art (group), 51st Venice Biennale, curated by María de Corral and Rosa Martínez, Giardini della Biennale, Venice; shows 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès and Journey to the Moon
AWARDS
2006
EXHIBITIONS
William Kentridge/The Magic Flute: Drawings and Projections (solo), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
William Kentridge (solo), San Francisco Art Institute, including 2006 McBean Distinguished Lecture
William Kentridge: 7 Fragments for George Méliès (solo), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
William Kentridge: Preparing the Flute (solo), Art for the World, Isola Madre
William Kentridge (solo), Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
William Kentridge: What Will Come (has already come) (solo), curated by Sabine Schulze, Städel Museum, travels to Kunsthalle Bremen
AWARDS
Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal, University of Chicago, includes Kovler Fellowship
2007
WORK
Makes What Will Come (has already come), projection installation with table, drawing paper and cylindrical steel mirror, and 35mm animated film, video transfer, 8:40 min
Five large drawings published in consecutive April editions of “Il Sole 24 Ore”, an Italian national daily business newspaper
EXHIBITIONS
Screening of Shadow Procession at Times Square, New York as part of “The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision”
William Kentridge: 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès and Black Box/Chambre Noire (solo), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, travels to Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
William Kentridge: 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès, Journey to the Moon, Day for Night (solo), Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
William Kentridge: What Will Come (has already come) (solo), Städel Museum, Frankfurt
William Kentridge: Doppelt Sehen – Neue Zeichnungen und Projektionen (solo), Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
William Kentridge’s Prints, Edinburgh Festival, travels to Smith College, Northampton, MA
William Kentridge: Fragile Identities (solo), University of Brighton, Brighton
What Will Come (solo), Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
William Kentridge: 10 Tapestries (solo), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, travels to Capodimonte Museum, Naples
AWARDS
Order of Ikhamanga (Silver), Pretoria, South Africa
2008
WORK
Makes I am not me, the horse is not mine, 8-channel video installation, 35mm film and video, video transfer, 6:00 min
Makes Breathe, Dissolve, Return, 3-channel video installation, 6:00 min; premieres at La Fenice opera house in Venice
Creates I am not me, the horse is not mine, solo lecture/performance, directed by Sue Pam-Grant, 45:00 min; premieres at South African National Gallery, Cape Town; travels to Museum of Modern Art, New York, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Festival Bo:m, Seoul, Theater der Welt, Mulheim, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, The Garage, Moscow and iDANS Festival, Istanbul
EXHIBITIONS
William Kentridge: Seeing Double (solo), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
William Kentridge (solo), Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
William Kentridge (solo), Annandale Galleries, Sydney
(REPEAT) from the beginning / Da Capo (solo), Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice
William Kentridge: (REPEAT) from the beginning (solo), Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
AWARDS
Honorary Doctorate, Rhodes University, Grahamstown
Oskar Kokoschka Award, Vienna
2009
WORK
Creates first Drawing Lesson films, informal and on-going series of films shot in studio featuring WK as live actor, drawing, animation
EXHIBITIONS
William Kentridge (solo), Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
William Kentridge: 5 Themes (solo), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; travels to Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Jeu de Paume, Paris, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Garage, Moscow and Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
William Kentridge: What We See & What We Know– Thinking about History Whilst Walking, and thus the Drawings Began to Move (solo), Museum of Modern Art Kyoto; travels to National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
