Robin Rhode


Robin Rhode is a South African artist based in Berlin, Germany. He has made wall drawings, photographs and sculptures.

Early life and education

Rhode was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied fine art at Technikon Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, followed by postgraduate work in 2000 at the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance.

Work

Rhode is represented by Lehmann Maupin.
In November 2009, he provided stop-frame video animations for a performance by Leif Ove Andsnes of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition at the Lincoln Center in New York.
In 2014, Rhode directed a music video for the U2 single "Every Breaking Wave"; it includes stop-frame animation stencil drawings, and figures that interact with them.

Exhibitions and performances

Fresh, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa The Score, Artists Space, New York Street Smart, Rubell Family Collection, Miami Empieza el Juego, Zaragoza, Madrid The Storyteller, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France All About Laughter: The Role of Humour in Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Walk Off, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Who Saw Who, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, Catch Air: Robin Rhode, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio Robin Rhode and Leif Ove Andsnes: Pictures Reframed, Lincoln Center, New York Robin Rhode, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Paries Pictus, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy The Call of Walls, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Animating the Everyday, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York The Sudden Walk, The House of Culture (Stockholm), Sweden Drawing Waves, Drawing Center, New York

Reception

In 2018, he won the Zurich Art Prize. Examples of his work are held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.