SOLO SHOWS
2021
Interstice, Arles, France
2017
Plastic Crowns, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
GROUP SHOWS
2021
Paris Photo, Grand Palais éphémère, Paris, France
Photo Slam!, Arles Photo Encounters
Congo Biennale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
RESTUDIO, Johannesburg, South Africa
2020 – 2021
NGV Triennial, NGV, Melbourne, Australia
Welcome Home Vol.II, Macaal, Marrakesh, Morocco
2020
The Matter, Off Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal (cancelled)
154 Contemporary African Art Fair, La Mamounia, Marrakesh, Morrocco
2019
Paris Photo, MAGNIN-A/ AFRONOVA GALLERY, Grand palais, Paris
La Biennale de Lubumbashi VI, Lubumbashi, Congo
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, AFRONOVA GALLERY, Somerset House, London, UK
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, AFRONOVA GALLERY,iNDUSTRIA, New York, USA
2018 – 2019
Not the Usual Suspects, IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2018
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, AFRONOVA GALLERY, Somerset House, London, UK
CAP Prize 2018 Winners Exhibition,Theaterplatz, Basel, Switzerland
AFROTOPIA, Curated by Marie-Ann Yemsi, Afrika Museum, Berg En Dal, The nederlands
African Passions, Evora Africa, Cadaval Palace, Evora, Portugal
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, AFRONOVA GALLERY,Pioneer Works, New York, USA
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, AFRONOVA GALLERY, Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
2017
Bamako Encounters, 11th Edition, AFROTOPIA, Bamako, Mali
Paris Photo, MAGNIN-A/ AFRONOVA GALLERY, Grand palais, Paris
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, AFRONOVA GALLERY, Pioneer Works, New York, USA
AFRICA STATE OF MIND: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY REIMAGINES A CONTINENT
English
Published by Thames and Hudson
2020
DIPTYK #50
French
Published by Diptyk Magazine
2020
PARIS NUDE
English
Published by Heni Publishing
2019
NATAAL MAGAZINE #1
English
Published by Nataal
2018
EXTRA EXTRA#10
English
Published by Extra Extra Magazine
2018
DIPTYK #43
French
Published by Diptyk Magazine
2018
AFROTOPIA
French and English
Published by Dilecta Editions
2018
PLATFORM AFRICA #227
English
Published by Aperture Magazine
2017
PLASTIC CROWNS
English
Published by Market Photo Workshop
No longer underappreciated: South African women photographers seize the limelight, Cur8 art, July 2021
Othman Lazraq, director of MACAAL in Marrakech (an interview), Confidential Fine Arts, January 2021
NGV Triennial gets under the skin with contemporary African visions, The Age, December 2020
Photographie : « Africa 21e siècle », panorama captivant du continent, Jeune Afrique, October 2020
Leading African photographers You Should Know, Momo Africa, November 2020
Africa State of Mind. Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent, We make Money not Art, June 2020
Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now, The New York Times, April 2020
Is There an Ideal Age to Be an Artist?, Elephant, April 2020
‘A queer person can be anybody’: the African photographers exploring identity, The Guardian, March 2020
Celebrating the collective consciousness of contemporary African photography, Hero Magazine, March 2020
Oath, A Photography Pledge – Creating a Landscape of Print for African Photographers, Bubblegumclub, February 2020
1-54 Contemporary Africain Art fair : le tour d’Afrique sans bouger de Marrakech, La Vie éco, February 2020
1-54 Marrakech: que collectionner, Diptyk Magazine, February 2020
Oath, A Photography Pledge – Creating a Landscape of Print for African Photographers, BubbleGumClub, February 2020
Born Free?, Nataal, December 2019
Young local artists that have wowed the world in 2019, Times Live, December 2019
Our Ten Favorite Pieces at Frieze and Beyond, Vice Magazine, October 2019
Phumzile Khanyile interroge l’image de la femme dans les Townships de Johannesburg, Virtute, June 2019
Expert view: Seven leading African photographers from across the continent, CNN, April 2019
Announcing the 2019 Joop Swart Masterclass Nominees, World Press Photo, March 2019
Not the Usual Suspects, Vogue Italy, January 2019
Athi-Patra Ruga Headlines 1-54 Art Fair, Elle Decoration, October 2018
154 Art Fair at Somerset House: a guide to the Contemporary African Art Show, The Evening Standard, October 2018
Festival : les étoiles africaines brillent à Évora, Le Point Afrique, August 2018
Sapeurs, silks and selfies: African contemporary arts – in pictures, The Guardian, August 2018
Phumzile Khanyile on discovering her Womanhood, Elephant Magazine, July 2018
Contemporary African Photography Prize Winners announced, British Journal of Photography, June 2018
Evora Africa: crossing continents, The Financial Times, June 2018
African Passions: Beyond Geography, History and Bodies, Elephant, May 2018
The Historic Portuguese City of Évora Celebrates Contemporary Art from Africa, Widewalls, May 2018
Portfolio : CAP Prize, l’avenir de la photographie africaine en 25 photographes, Numéro, May 2018
Top 13 des meilleures photos du prix pour la Photographie Contemporaine Africaine, Phototrend, May 2018
Si Grand-Mère me voyait…, Diptyk, May 2018
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair: the female gaze, Financial Times, May 2018
Whitewaller New York 2018: What You Need to Know about 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Whitewaller New York Frieze Issue, May 2018
1-54 Art Fair to Bring a Diverse Set of African Perspectives Together in New York, Widewalls, April 2018
Celebrating Traditions, Aesthetica Magazine, April 2018
Portfolio Phumzile Khanyile, Extra Extra Magazine, Issue 10
Rencontres de Bamako: Afrotopia, nouveaux imaginaires de l’Afrique contemporaine, Geopolis, December 2017
Diapositive Afrotopia, Art Africa Magazine, December 2017
Afrotopia in Pictures, Elephant, November 2017
Les Rencontres de Bamako, Arte, November 2017
Female Photographers at Paris Photo 2017, Collector Daily, November 2017
Aperture Members Celebrate the Launch of « Platform Africa », Aperture, May 2017
Learning Political Lessons at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Hyperallergic, May 2017
The third edition of 1:54 NY Contemporary African Art Fair, The Eye of Photography, May 2017
Phumzile Khanyile, Art Forum, February 2017
Plastic Crowns: a narrative as self-portrait by Phumzile Khanyile, Between 10 and 5, February 2017
Phumzile Khanyile – Plastic Crowns, In Your Pocket, February 2017
When the photographer turns the camera on herself, Sunday Times, April 2016
Plastic Crowns | 2016
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Unresolved | 2017
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Phumzile Khanyile
Born in Soweto in 1991. Lives and works in Johannesburg.
Phumzile Khanyile is a Market Photo Workshop graduate. She is the recipient of the 2015 Gisèle Wulfsohn Mentorship in Photography.
A series of self portraits, Plastic Crowns contains a strong narrative expressed through a striking visual language. Khanyile’s work explores aspects of women’s lives through evocations of her own experiences; breaking down social taboos in its explicit exploration of sexual politics. There is little distinction between her craft and her own life in the images, which read like a private journal of informal snap shots made public. Her gritty aesthetic, characterized by harsh shadows, soft focus and lush textures, lends her work it’s notable emotive quality.
Since her debut exhibition at the Market Photo Workshop in 2017, Khanyile’s has been extensively featured in the press, The Financial Times, Aperture, The British Journal of Photography, Elephant, Art Africa Magazine. She has also been part of several exhibitions including AFROTOPIA, at the African Photography Encounters in Bamako; at the Africa Museum in Bergen Dal; Not the Usual Suspects, at Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town and Evora Africa, African Passions, at Palacio Cadaval in Evora. Her work features already in local and international collections, in Europe and the US.
Phumzile has been awarded the 2018 CAP Prize and has recently won the De Pietri Artphilein Foundation Photobook project. She was part of the prestigious NGV Triennale 2020 and more recently of the exhibition Dress Code at the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation in Arles, France, during the Arles Photo Encounters 2022.