| Roger
Franklin Ballen
Birthdate April 11, 1950
Residence Johannesburg,
South Africa
Bibliography
BOOKS OF ROGER BALLEN’S
PHOTOGRAPHS
Outland. Introduction
by Peter Weiermair. Phaidon Press, London
2001
Cette Afrique lá. Introduction by Lionel
Murcott. Photo Pouche series, Editions Nathan
Paris 1997.
Platteland, Images of a Rural South Africa.
Introduction by Roger Ballen. William Waterman
Publications 1994, Quartet Books, London 1994,
St Martins Press, New York 1996.
Dorps, Small Towns of South Africa. Introduction
by Roger Ballen. Clifton Publications, South
Africa. 1986.
Boyhood. Introduction by Roger Ballen. Chelsea
House Publishers, New York-London 1979.
FILMS
South African Broadcasting
Corporation. “Dorps, Small Towns of
South Africa”. Film documentary on Roger
Ballen’s book. 1986.
ITV Television. “Platteland, Images
from Rural South Africa” South Bank
Show, London. 1995.
NPS Television, The Netherlands “Selfportrait,
Roger Ballen” 2002
AWARDS
Sani Festival, Thessaloniki
Greece, Best Solo Exhibition, February 2000
PhotoEspana 2001, Madrid Spain, Best Photographic
Book of the Year
Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize 2002
finalist
Photo-eye, Best Documentary Title, Best Photography
Books of 2001
Special mention : UNICEF Photo of the Year
2001
Photographer of the Year 2002, Rencontres
d’Arles, July 2002
Top 10 Exhibition 2002, Vince Aletti, Artforum,
December 2002
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Museum,
New York, USA
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
Fotomuseum, Munchen, Germany
Johannesburg Art Museum, South Africa
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Louisiana Museum, Denmark
Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris
Musée de la Photographie á Charleroi,
Belguim
Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark
Museo nazionale Della Fotographia, Brescia,
Italy
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Spencer Art Museum, Kansas, USA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Hasselblad, Goteborg, Sweden
Berkeley Art Museum, California ONE
MAN EXHIBITIONS
2006
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris
The Consejería de Cultura y Deportes
de la Comunidad de Madrid
Atlanta College of Arts, USA
Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Reno, USA
Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, South
Africa
2005
Museum voor Fotografie,
Antwerp
Frans Hal Museum, Amsterdam
Durban Art Gallery, South Africa
2004
State Museum of Russia,
St Petersburg
Berkeley Art Museum, California
Le Chateau d'eau à Toulouse France
Dieci Comme ltd, Tokyo 2003
Galleria Carla Sozzani,
Italy
Galerie Mennour, Paris
2002
Galleria D'arte Moderna
Bologna, Italy
Musee Nicephore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saone France
Museo Nazionalle Italy, Brescia Italy
Gagosian Gallery, New York USA
Nuku Gallery, Oulu Finland
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense Denmark
Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
Centro Cultural de Maia, O’Porto, Spain
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Gallery of Photography, Dublin Ireland
2001
Rupertinum, Salzburg
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
Fotoforum, Frankfurt
Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Hasselblad Center, Sweden
International Photo Festival Herten, Germany
PhotoEspana, Madrid Spain
Kicken Gallery, Berlin
Shine Gallery, London
Encontros da imagem, Braga Portugal
Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefeld, Germany
Printemps de Septembre a Toulouse, France
Mateo Inurria, Cordoba, Spain
2000
Royal Theatre of
Namur, Belgium
Month of Photography, Thessaloniki
Noordelicht, Amsterdam
Sani Festival, Greece
Museum of Photography, Athens, Greece
1999
Fait & Cause,
Paris
Melkweg, Amsterdam
Month of Photography, Bratislava
Month of Photography, Cape Town
1998
Kunstal Museum, Rotterdam
Lumo ’98, Finland
Kunsthaus, Zürich
Previous
Eindhoven Photographic
Festival, Holland
Tarranto Gallery, New York City
Royal Festival Hall/Hayward Gallery, London,
England
Arles Photographic Festival, Arles, France
Afrikaner Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa
Michaelis Collection, Cape Town, South Africa
Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
Shell Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Market Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa
Colorado Centre for Photography, Denver, Colorado
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Making Faces, Musée
de l’Elysée, 2004
Citigroup Photography Prize, London, 2002
Sala Rekalde, Bilbao 2002 “Dislocation”
Centro Cultural de Maia O’Porto, 2002
“Dislocation”
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2002 “New
documentary photography” 2002
National Portrait Gallery, London, 2002
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense C Denmark, Hall
of Mirrors, 2001
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Holland, Recent
Acquisitions, 2001
La Natura Della Natura Morta, Italy, 2001/02
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Portraits
of Africa, 2000
National Museum of Photography of Film &
Television, Bradford, United Kingdom, New
Natural History, 1999
National Portrait Gallery, London,1999
Comment Jouer Enfermement, Maison Européene
de la Photographie, Paris, France, 1998
·South African National Gallery, Cape
Town, South Africa, 1997.
Double Vie, Double Vue, Fondation Cartier
pour l’art Contemporain, Paris France,
1997 |
