South African artist Zanele Muholi (CRF 2012) has a new exhibition, Eye Me, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through August 11, 2024. The exhibition brings together over 100 photographs from the past twenty two years, alongside paintings, sculpture and video pieces.
From SFMOMA’s exhibition page:
“A self-described visual activist, Zanele Muholi (b. 1972, Umlazi, South Africa) uses the camera to explore issues of gender identity, representation, and race. Often photographing their own body or members of their LGBTQ+ community in South Africa, Muholi calls attention to the trauma and violence enacted on queer people while celebrating their beauty and resilience. Activism is central to Muholi’s artistic practice, from their early work contending with the dangers of being queer in South Africa to their more recent work embracing their own blackness and gender expression…The first major exhibition of Muholi’s work on the West Coast, it provides the opportunity for Bay Area audiences to experience the full range of the artist’s expansive project.”
Learn more here.
Image credit:
Detail of Zanele Muholi, Somile, 2021; collection of Christine Mack; © Zanele Muholi