Arts (Painting, Sculpture, Craft, Architecture, Design)

William Kentridge

South Africa / April 28, 1955
Visual Artist

"An Artist Who Has Created an Original Art by Fusing Traditional Drawings with Animation and Other Media"
Mr. Kentridge introduces traditional drawing techniques into animation, video projection and other media to develop a new medium for art in which these elements fuse together in multiple ways, thus creating an original world to express poetically his deep insights into society and human existence.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

1955	Born in Johannesburg, South Africa
1975-1991	Member of the Junction Avenue Theatre Company
1976	B.A.(Political Science and African Studies), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
1976-1978	Studied art at Johannesburg Art Foundation
1978-1980	Taught etching at Johannesburg Art Foundation
1981-1982	Studied mime and theatre at École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, Paris
1982-1984	Worked as an art director on television series and feature films in Johannesburg
1989	Completed the first animated film in the Soho Eckstein series
1992	Started collaborating with Handspring Puppet Company
2005	Directed, created animation and co-designed sets for The Magic Flute
2009	Selected for the TIME 100, or the world's most influential people as chosen by Time magazine
2010	Directed, created animation and co-designed sets for Dimitri Shostakovich opera The Nose

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

2000	Carnegie Prize, Carnegie Museum of Art
2003	The Kaiserring Prize, Mönchehaus Museum für moderne Kunst
2008	Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austrian Federal Government

SELECTED WORKS

1989	Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City after Paris
1991	Mine
1994	Felix in Exile
1997	Ubu Tells the Truth
1999	Stereoscope
2002	Zeno Writing
2003	7 Fragments for Georges Méliès
2008	I am not me, the horse is not mine

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