2020 to 2029
2020
LIFE
WK diagnosed with COVID-19; makes full recovery
WORK
During health lockdown in April and May, WK begins work on Studio Life, a series of films about thinking and making meaning in the studio.
Delivers The Moment Has Gone, Susan T. Marx Distinguished Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania from his studio in Houghton
EXHIBITIONS
City Deep (solo), Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
William Kentridge: That Which is Not Drawn (solo), Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona
Waiting for the Sibyl and other histories (solo), Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan
2021
EXHIBITIONS
William Kentridge: Making Prints – Selected Editions 1998–2020 (solo), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
More Sweetly Play the Dance (solo), Mudam: Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
William Kentridge: Universal Archive (solo), University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie
William Kentridge: Tapestries (solo), Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Finally Memory Yields (solo), Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
AWARDS
Foreign Associate Member to the French Académie des Beaux Arts, Paris
Doctor Honoris Causa, conferred jointly by Vrije Universiteit Brussel, University of the Western Cape and Ghent University
Ruth Baumgarte Art Prize, Hanover
2022
WORK
Makes Oh to Believe in Another World, a film to accompany performance of Shostakovich Symphony No. 10. Premieres at KKL in Lucerne, performed by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Sanderling.
EXHIBITIONS
That Which We Do Not Remember (solo), M.K. Ciurlionis Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania
Weigh All Tears (solo), Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong
William Kentridge (solo), Royal Academy of Arts, London
In Praise of Shadows (solo), Broad Foundation, Los Angeles
AWARDS
Doctor of Humane Letters, Columbia University, New York
Laurea Honoris Causa, Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo
Honour of the Order of the Star of Italy, Rome
Queen Sonja Print Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, Oslo