Robin Rhode was born in Cape Town in 1976 and raised in Johannesburg. He currently lives and works in Berlin. He received his diploma in fine art from Witwatersrand Technikon in 1998 and graduated from the South African School of Film, Television and Dramatic Arts in Johannesburg in 2000.
Rhode's solo and two-person exhibitions include Robin Rhode, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2010); Catch Air, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2009); Who Saw Who, Hayward Gallery, London (2008); Walk Off, Haus der Kunst, Munich (2007); Robin Rhode, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo (2006); The Storyteller, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France (2006); Robin Rhode, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York (2004); The Score, Artists Space, New York (2004); and Fresh, South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2000).
Group exhibitions include Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova, and Robin Rhode, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, N.C. (2007); All About Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2007); The Beautiful Game: Contemporary Art and Fútbol, BICA and Roebling Hall, New York (2006); Dak'Art, Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal (2006); New Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2005); The Experience of Art, 51st Venice Biennale (2005); Art Circus, Yokohama Triennial, Japan (2005); Adaptive Behavior, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2004); and How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2003).
Photo of Robin Rhode by David Miller
Andsnes & Rhode Reframe Pictures Street Level at the Nasher Museum Walk Off
Robin Rhode, "Wheel of Steel," 2006. 9 digital pigment prints mounted on 4-ply museum board, 49.5 x 68 inches; 15.5 x 22 inches each. Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Fund for Acquisitions, 2007.3.1A-I. Courtesy of the artist and Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York.
Robin Rhode, "Wheel of Steel," (detail) 2006. 9 digital pigment prints mounted on 4-ply museum board, 49.5 x 68 inches; 15.5 x 22 inches each. Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Fund for Acquisitions, 2007.3.1A-I. Courtesy of the artist and Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York.
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