Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation Global Experience Project (GEP 2020)

In May 2020, OCAD University’s Faculty of Art will bring acclaimed South African visual activist Zanele Muholi to Toronto, with special engagements at OCAD U and throughout the city. OCAD U students enrolled in the GEP course will engage with the artist during their Toronto residency, then travel to Johannesburg, South Africa to visit the artist’s studio and gallery, to connect with artist networks abroad, and to witness first-hand the making of an international art practice.

A unique initiative, GEP exposes OCAD U students, faculty and the public to the rich and varied landscape of global artistic approaches. Muholi’s OCAD U Toronto residency features a series of public events throughout the month of May.

For more information about GEP, please visit: OCADU.CA/GLOBALEXPERIENCE

Zanele Muholi, Banzima I,Torino, Italy (2019) from Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness

Zanele Muholi, Bakhambile, Parktown (2016) from Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness

About Zanele Muholi:

In April 2020, London’s Tate Modernin collaboration with the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, Gropius Bau, Berlin and Bildmuseet at Umeå Universit, will present the first major mid-career survey of Muholi’s work.

Nominated as one of the top 10 artists of the last decade by Artsy.net, “Zanele Muholi has exemplified the role of the photographer as a visual activist.” Muholi’s portraits challenge the stigma surrounding LGBTIQ people in South Africa and beyond.

Embracing a subjective perspective in their practice, Muholi forms relationships with photographic subjects, including the individuals in Only Half the Picture (2003–06), Brave Beauties (2013 - ) the transgender and gay men in Beulahs (2006–10), and the couples in Being (2007).

For the series Faces and Phases (2006- present), Muholi photographed more than 200 portraits of South Africa’s lesbian and transgender community. Photographs from Faces have been included in the São Paulo Biennial (2010), Documenta (2012), and the South African Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013). 

Muholi won the 2019 Best Photography Book Award from the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation for Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail, The Dark Lioness (Aperture), and portraits from the photographic series were featured in May You Live in Interesting Times at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019). 

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Zanele Muholi, Banzima I,Torino, Italy (2019) from Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness
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Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 10:57am
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OCAD U students to travel to Johannesburg, South Africa in May
Thursday February 27th, 2020

Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation Global Experience Project (GEP 2020)

In May 2020, OCAD University’s Faculty of Art will bring acclaimed South African visual activist Zanele Muholi to Toronto, with special engagements at OCAD U and throughout the city. OCAD U students enrolled in the GEP course will engage with the artist during their Toronto residency, then travel to Johannesburg, South Africa to visit the artist’s studio and gallery, to connect with artist networks abroad, and to witness first-hand the making of an international art practice.

A unique initiative, GEP exposes OCAD U students, faculty and the public to the rich and varied landscape of global artistic approaches. Muholi’s OCAD U Toronto residency features a series of public events throughout the month of May.

For more information about GEP, please visit: OCADU.CA/GLOBALEXPERIENCE

Zanele Muholi, Banzima I,Torino, Italy (2019) from Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness

Zanele Muholi, Bakhambile, Parktown (2016) from Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness

About Zanele Muholi:

In April 2020, London’s Tate Modernin collaboration with the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, Gropius Bau, Berlin and Bildmuseet at Umeå Universit, will present the first major mid-career survey of Muholi’s work.

Nominated as one of the top 10 artists of the last decade by Artsy.net, “Zanele Muholi has exemplified the role of the photographer as a visual activist.” Muholi’s portraits challenge the stigma surrounding LGBTIQ people in South Africa and beyond.

Embracing a subjective perspective in their practice, Muholi forms relationships with photographic subjects, including the individuals in Only Half the Picture (2003–06), Brave Beauties (2013 - ) the transgender and gay men in Beulahs (2006–10), and the couples in Being (2007).

For the series Faces and Phases (2006- present), Muholi photographed more than 200 portraits of South Africa’s lesbian and transgender community. Photographs from Faces have been included in the São Paulo Biennial (2010), Documenta (2012), and the South African Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013). 

Muholi won the 2019 Best Photography Book Award from the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation for Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail, The Dark Lioness (Aperture), and portraits from the photographic series were featured in May You Live in Interesting Times at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019). 

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