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William Kentridge

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Biography

William Kentridge is a South African artist born 28 April 1955 in Johannesburg. William Kentridge is best known for his Modern Art prints, drawings, and animated films. William Kentridge constructs his works by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two seconds’ screen time. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene. These palimpsest-like drawings are later displayed along with the films as finished pieces of art. In 2016, his solo exhibition “Thick Time” opened at White Chapel Gallery in London to critical acclaim, evoking 1920s-era technology and Dadaist collage. Kentridge has also directed several operas, most notably the 2017 production Wozzeck.The artist continues to live and work in Johannesburg, South Africa. Kentridge’s works are held in the collections The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Goetz Collection in Munich, among others.

News / Ranking / Titbits / Awards

2004 Honorary Doctor of Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand; 2006 Jesse L Rosenberger Medal from the University of Chicago; 2010 Kyoto Prize; 2012 Dan David Prize; 2013 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres; 2021 Honorary Doctor of Vrije Universiteit Brussel; 2022 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Columbia University.

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