Michael MacGarry
°1978, South Africa
Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.
His practice focuses on socio-political and economic narratives, particularly within the context of Africa, drawn through a post-humanist autobiographical mode. Exhibitions and screenings include Guggenheim Bilbao, TATE Modern, Zeitz MOCAA, Carthage Film Festival, Rencontres de Bamako, VideoBrasil, Film Festival Oberhausen, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Flaherty Seminar and Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival.
Selected exhibitions:
Solo exhibitions:
2024, The business called show – Everard Read, Cape Town (RSA)
2024, The system absorbs all opposition – Everard Read, Johannesburg (RSA)
2022, Genre pictures – Everard Read, Cape Town (RSA)
2021, SUPERSTRUCTURE – CIRCA, Johannesburg (RSA)
2018, A coarse sorting of the readily available – CIRCA, Cape Town (RSA)
2018, We are now, what you once were. – CIRCA, Johannesburg (RSA)
2017, SHOW NO PAIN - The collected film and video work of Michael MacGarry – Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg (RSA)
2016, Between Rot and Genesis – Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg (RSA)
2012, The Other Half – STEVENSON, Cape Town (RSA)
Group exhibitions:
2022, God of War – OHSH Projects, London (UK)
2021, On African Urbanism(s) – Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Princeton University, New Jersey (US)
2021, White men can’t jump – P72 Projects x FNB Art Joburg, Johannesburg (RSA)
2020, Materiality – Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (RSA)
2020, Pentatonic Rubbernecking – GUS Gallery, Stellenbosch (RSA)
2020, Africa State of Mind – Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (UK)
2019, In the belly of the whale – Transition, London (UK)
2019, Africa State of Mind – Impressions Gallery, Bradford (UK)
2019, Still here tomorrow to high five you yesterday – MOCAA, Cape Town (RSA)
2018, Rencontres Internationales de la photo de Fes, Morocco (MA)
2018, Africa State of Mind – New Art Exchange (NAE), Nottingham (UK)
2018, Flow of Forms – Völkerkundemuseum, Hamburg (DE)
2018, The Land – Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway (NO)
2017, Out from Under – The Flaherty, New York City (US)
2017, Another Antipodes – PS Art Space, Fremantle, Australia (AU)
2017, Le Rencontres Internationales – Gaîté Lyrique, Paris (FR), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
2017, Chinafrika – gfzk Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (DE)
2017, Flow of Forms – Völkerkundemuseum, Hamburg (DE)
2017, Utopia/Dystopia – MAAT (Museum Art Architecture Technology) Lisbon (PT)
2015, 19th SESC_VideoBrasil – Sao Paulo (BR)
2015, The Film Will Always Be You – TATE Modern, London (UK)
2015, Making Africa. A Continent of Contemporary Design – Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein (DE)
2015, Africa: Architecture, Culture, Identity – Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (DK)
2015, Africa Salon – Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)
2014, Half-Devil Half-Child – Blank Projects, Cape Town (RZA)