Awards
Best Music Video, I Fink U Freeky, Plus Camerimage International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography in Bydgoszcz, Poland
I Fink U Freeky. Award for best music video at the 20th Short Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal, 2012
Finalist – Lucie Awards
Curator/Exhibition of the Year: Roger Ballen: Photographs 1982 – 2009. Curated by Dr. Anthony Bannon for the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.
Art Directors Club Award Photography – 2006
Selma Blair Witch Project – New York Times Magazine, October 31st 2005
Top 10 Exhibition, Matthew Higgs, Artforum-2004
Citigroup Prize, finalist, UK – 2002
Photographer of the Year, Rencontres d’ Arles – 2002
Top 10 Exhibition, Vince Aletti, Artforum – 2002
Photo Espana, Best Photographic Book of the Year, Spain – 2001
Photo-eye, Best Documentary Title, Best Photography Books of 2001
Sani Festival, Best Solo Exhibition, Greece, 2000
Special mention: UNICEF Photo of the Year 2001
Roger Ballen
Request about this work
2009
Archival pigment print
50 x 50 cm | 90 x 90 cm
40 x 40 cm
2005
Archival pigment print
80 x 80 cm
2007
Archival pigment print
40 x 40 cm
2003
Silver gelatin print
50 x 50 cm | 90 x 90 cm
2006
Archival pigment print
50 x 50 cm | 90 x 90 cm
2011
Archival pigment print
50 x 50 cm | 90 x 90 cm
2009
Archival pigment print
80 x 80 cm
2009
Archival pigment print
50 x 50 cm | 90 x 90 cm
2006
Archival pigment print
50 x 50 cm
2007
Archival pigment print
Selected Exhibitions
2014
Atlas Sztuki, Lotz, Poland.
Circa Gallery, Johannesburg.
Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires.
Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden.
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France.
Galerie Karsten Greve, One Man Show “Asylum of the Birds”, Paris Photo, France.
Kulungwana, Maputo, Mozambique.
Kunst- und Kulturzentrum Monschau, Aachen, Deutschland.
Moscow Media Centre, Moscow Russia.
Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France.
Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil.
Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent, Belgium.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome.
Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
2013
Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Northern Island.
Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg.
Johannesburg Art Fair, South Africa.
Maison De L’Image Documentaire, The CèTávoiR Association, Paris, France.
Museum of Old and New, Hobart Australia.
Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark.
Photoink, New Delhi, India.
Pingao International Photography Festival, China.
Palm Springs Art Museum, California, USA.
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA.
Westlicht, Schauplatz fur Fotografie, Vienna, Austria.
2012
Erdmann Contemporary & the Photographers Gallery za, Cape Town, South Africa.
Guate Festival, Guatemala de la Asunción, Guatemala.
Kleinschmidt Fine Photographs, Wiesbaden, Germany.
Kunstalle, Vienna, Austria.
Manchester Art Museum, England.
Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany.
Musee de l Elysee, Lausanne Switzerland.
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
Northwest University Museum, Potchestroom, South Africa.
Novosibirsk Art Museum, Russia.
Rosphoto, St. Pieterburg, Russia.
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.
2011
Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia.
Fahey Klein, Los Angles, California.
Fondazione Terre Medicee, Seravezza, Italy.
Galerie Alex Daniels – Reflex Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg, Germany.
Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Canada.
Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands.
Omsk Museum, Russia.
Sammlung Prinzhorn, Outland andShadow Chamber, Heidelberg, Germany.
2010
Bozar, Brussels.
Comune di Arco/Galleria Civica, Italy.
Centro de Arte la Regenta, Las Palmas, Spain.
Festival of Photography of Savignano, Italy.
Gallery Photographer RU, Moscow, Russia.
Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany.
Galeria Max Estrella.
Galeria Senda. Barcelona, Spain.
Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France.
George Eastman House, Rochester, USA.
Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA.
Lismore Regional Gallery, Australia.
Photonet Galerie, Wiesbaden, Germany.
Rooke Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sammlungsleiter Fotomuseum, Munich, Germany.
Stenersen Museum, Oslo.
Sydney Biennale, Australia.
University of the O.F.S., South Africa.
Ubuntu, Salzburg Austria.
Ubuntu, Berlin, Germany.
2009
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.
City Museum of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA.
Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy.
Kamel Mennour, Paris, France.
National Library of Australia, Canberra.
Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Ontario.
Triennale, Milan, Italy.
University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
2008
AEREA / Christian Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden.
Art Gallery of Western Australia.
BWA Gallery, Katowice, Poland.
On Photography, Galerie Alex Daniels – Reflex Amsterdam.
Hertzelia Artists Host Centre, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Omaggio a Federico Vender at Palazzo dei Panni of Arco Trento Su Palatu, Sardinia.
2007
Aura Gallery, Hong Kong.
Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.
The Holy Summer, Galerie Alex Daniels – Reflex Amsterdam.
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA.
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston.
Yours Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.Photographer’s Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
Sasol Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2005
Aura Gallery, Shanghai.
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem.
Durban Art Gallery, South Africa.
“Fraught”, Galerie Alex Daniels – Reflex Amsterdam (solo).
Gagosian Gallery, New York.
2004
Berkeley Art Museum, California.
Le Chateau d’ eau a Toulouse.
State Museum of Russia, St. Petersburg.
Museum Collections
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Berkeley Art Museum, California
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Alabama, USA
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
Fotomuseum, Munchen, Germany
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, USA
Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Hasselblad, Goteborg, Sweden
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Johannesburg Art Museum, South Africa
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Louisiana Museum, Denmark
Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester. United Kingdom
Musée de la Photographie á Charleroi, Belguim
Musee de l’Elysee , Lausanne, Switzerland
Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark
Museo nazionale Della Fotographia, Brescia, Italy
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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
National Museum of Film and Photography, Bradford UK
Palm Springs Art Museum, California
Oliewenhuis, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Spencer Art Museum, Kansas, USA
State Museum of Russia, Moscow, Russia
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tate Britain, London, UK
Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia, USA
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA
Published books
Asylum of the Birds, London: Thames and Hudson, 2014.
Roger Ballen, Paris: Nathan, Photo Poche series, 2012.
Animal Abstraction, Exhibition catalogue Galerie Alex Daniels, Amsterdam: Reflex, 2011
Boarding House, London: Phaidon, 2009.
Shadow Chamber, London: Phaidon, 2005.
Fact or Fiction, Paris: Kamel Mennour, 2003, ISBN 291417109-9.
Outland, London: Phaidon, 2001.
Cette Afrique là, Paris: Nathan, Photo Poche series, 1997.
Platteland, Rivonia (ZA): William Waterman, and London: Quartet Books, 1994; New York: St. Martin’s, 1996.
Dorps: Small Towns of South Africa, Cape Town: Hirt and Carter, 1986. (Reprinted by Protea Boekhuis, 2011)
Boyhood, New York/London: Chelsea House, 1979.