Zanele muholi

Zanele Muholi’s exquisite images of South Africa’s black LGBT and township communities are a magnificent act of solidarity

Non-binary South African visual activist and artist Zanele Muholi presents an excellent monograph, Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness. A rare photographic tour de force.

South African artist Zanele Muholi’s self-portraits seem familiar at first, but the details tell a bigger story.

Zanele Muholi

L’exposition de Zanele Muholi fut l’exposition vedette du Aspen Art Fair 2024. Zanele Muholi, activiste visuel, humanitaire et praticien de l'art

Zanele Muholi teases apart one of her favorite images from her 2016 series of self-portraits in an exclusive conversation with LensCulture

Through self-portraits, Zanele Muholi reimagines black identity and challenges the oppressive standards of beauty that often ignore people of color.

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Zanele Muholi celebrates Black LGBTQ+ lives through evocative visual activism in a powerful narrative that confronts societal norms and champions resilience.

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In 1962, the Student Union voted to establish an art collection, which advanced the creation of a dedicated art department.

In this exclusive video interview, released ahead of their first UK solo exhibition, Muholi speaks about using the camera as a tool for visibility

South Africa might have been the continent’s first country to legalise same-sex marriage, but its LGBT community remains the target of hate crimes. Assault is common, and so-called “corrective rape” continues.

The South African photographer believes that an artist’s studio can be a hotel room, a playground, a kitchen, a toilet – or even a crime scene

ZANELE MUHOLI18 May, 2024 – 13 July, 2024Southern Guild Los Angeles747 N Western AvenueMelrose HillLos Angeles, California Southern Guild Los Angeles is pleased to present ZANELE MUHOLI, an autobiographical panorama of the visual activist and artist as their creative practice evolves over time and across mediums. Provocative and perceptive, in this presentation Muholi encourages their audience to question the world around them—wielding artwork that re-imagines self and re-envisions agency…

20th century and contemporary photography including: Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Larry Fink, Lynn Geesaman, Kenneth Josephson, Nadav Kander, Yousuf Karsh, Andre Kertesz, Masatomo Kuriya, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisette Model, Andrew Moore, Eliot Porter, Marion Post Wolcott, Sebastiao Salgado, Julius Shulman, Sharon Core, Jared Bark, Mary Ellen Bartley.

_British Sri Lankan author Charlotte Jansen spent three years interviewing 40 contemporary female photographers, from Juno Calypso to Zanele Muholi, for her new book_ Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze. _The tome explores how their work examines issues of identity, femininity, sexuality and feminism, and here, Charlotte gives insight to her findings._

Zanele Muholi, 2015

Zanele Muholi