DANIEL NAUDÉ
(b.1984, Cape Town, South Africa)

Naudé was born in 1984 in Cape Town, where he continues to live. He graduated with a BA Visual Arts Honours degree from the University of Stellenbosch in 2007.

Naudé has had solo exhibitions at Stevenson Cape Town and Johannesburg (2011, 2010 and 2014) and showed selected photographs from Animal Farm in the print room at The Photographers’ Gallery in London in 2013. Group shows include Chroma (Cape Town) and The Loom of the Land (Johannesburg), at Stevenson in 2014 and 2013; In Focus: Animalia at the J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2015); Lyon Biennale, La vie modern (2015); Joseph Walsh, Johannes Nagel and Daniel Naudé at Artists House, New Art Centre, Wiltshire (2014); Apartheid and After at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (2014); The festival artist at the Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom (2012); Neither Man Nor Stone at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2012); Lagos Photo Festival, Nigeria (2011); Bamako Encounters African Photography Biennial, Mali (2011); Greatest Hits of 2007 at the AVA Gallery, Cape Town (2011); Breaking News: Contemporary photography from the Middle East and Africa, works from the collection of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, in Modena, Italy (2010); and PEEKABOO – Current South Africa at the Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (2010).

Naudé’s first book, Animal Farm, was published by Prestel in 2012, followed by Sightings of the Sacred: Cattle in India, Uganda and Madagascar in 2016, also by Prestel. Naudé took part in the Fall 2011 residency programme at Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado. 

Learn more about the exhibition in the video below, or on the exhibition page

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
The Bovine Prophecy - Xhosa Cattle on the Shore of the Wild Coast. Everard Read Gallery, London, UK

2021
The Bovine Prophecy – Xhosa cattle on the shore of the wild coast. Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2020
The Bovine Prophecy – Xhosa cattle on the shore of the wild coast. Everard Read Gallery, Franschhoek, South Africa
The Bovine Prophecy – Xhosa cattle on the shore of the wild coast. The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK

2019
A Decade of Seeing: Reflection on Naudé’s various bodies of work over the last ten years. Everard Read Gallery, London, UK
See exhibition video here

2018
A Decade of Seeing: Reflection on Naudé’s various bodies of work over the last ten years. Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
A Decade of Seeing: Reflection on Naudé’s various bodies of work over the last ten years. Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2014
Sightings of the Sacred: Cattle in India, Uganda and Madagascar, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2013
Animal Farm, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK

2012
Animal Farm, Festival Artist, Aardklop Nasionale Kunstefees, Potchefstroom, South Africa

2011
Animal Farm, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2010
African Scenery & Animals, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
Winter 2022|23, Everard Read Gallery, London, UK

2021
Winter 2021|22, Everard Read Gallery, London, UK

2020
MAKAY. Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France
Tiny. Everard Read Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa
Still lives. Everard Read Gallery Cape Town, South Africa
Solidarity Fund. Everard Read Gallery Cape Town, South Africa

2019
Unseen. 35 Years of Collecting Photographs. The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angels, USA

2018
Festival La Gacilly Photo, Baden, Austria

2017
Festival La Gacilly Photo, France

2016
Unseen Fair, Amsterdam. The Photographers’ Gallery.
Water Event. Exhibition curated by Yoko Ono, Lumière de L’aube at MAC Lyon, France.

2015
La vie moderne, Lyon Biennale, France

2014
Artists House, New Art Centre, Wiltshire
Apartheid and After, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam.
Paris Photo – Los Angeles.
Paris Photo – Paris.
CHROMA, Stevenson, Cape Town

2013
The Loom of the Land, Stevenson, Johannesburg

2011
9th Bamako Encounters, African Photography Biennial, Lagos Photo Festival
Neither Man Nor Stone, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town

2010
Peekaboo: New South Africa, Tennispalatsi, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Breaking News: Contemporary photography from the Middle East and Africa, from the collection of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, in Modena, Italy
Beauty in Africa in All of its States, African Union Summit, Addis Abba, Ethiopia
After A, Photo Notes on South Africa, Atri Reportage Festival, Italy

2009
Africanis on Summer 2008/9: Projects, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa Included FOAM #20 magazine’s special issue

2008
University of Stellenbosch, Photokina, Köln, Germany

2007
Greatest Hits of 2007, AVA Gallery, Cape Town