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
2023
WORK
Makes You Whom I Could Not Save, a site specific film and sound installation at the Palazzo Branciforte in Palermo, with material related to The Great Yes, The Great No.
EXHIBITIONS
You Whom I Could Not Save, Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo
What Have They Done with All the Air (solo), Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
AWARDS
Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera for Sibyl, London
2024
WORK
A Natural History of the Studio, Slade Lecture Series, Six lectures delivered as Slade Professor of Fine Art for 2023/24, University of Oxford, Oxford.
Makes the chamber opera The Great Yes, The Great No. Premieres at LUMA Foundation, Arles.
Makes To Cross One More Sea, a three channel film installation with scenography, using material related to The Great Yes, The Great No.
Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot, the nine episode series about life and work in the studio is publicly shown in Venice for the first time and premieres on the streaming platform MUBI.
Makes the flipbook film Fugitive Words.
EXHIBITIONS
Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot (solo), Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation, Venice
William Kentridge (solo), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Je n’attends plus (solo), Luma Foundation, Arles
A Shadow of a Shadow (solo), Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah
Arte Povera, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris
History on One Leg (solo), A4 Art Foundation, Cape Town
AWARDS
International Folkwang Prize, Folkwang-Museumsverein, Essen
2025
WORK
Makes the series of six, monumental outdoor sculptures, Paper Procession, as a commission for a solo exhibition of sculpture at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
EXHIBITIONS
The Pull of Gravity (solo), Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton
Listen to the Echo (solo), Museum Folkwang, Essen
Listen to the Echo (solo), Albertinum and Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden
AWARDS
Doctor of Fine Arts, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
