Chronology

Compiled by Sean O’Toole

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

In Praise of Shadows (solo), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Oh To Believe in Another World (solo), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

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

A Natural History of the Studio (solo), Hauser & Wirth, New York
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