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

For more than a decade, photographer Daniel Naudé has practised capturing and perfecting moments of stillness in the natural realm. Martin Barnes, senior curator of photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, observes that each of Naudé's photographs 'is a shared moment in time, one in which the animal and the human seem at once named and yet nameless, specific and yet universal. There is a mutual "now-ness" to his arresting human-animal gazes, mediated by the camera. In total, they read like a remarkable series of ecstatic, intensified meeting points in which we query what it means to be alive, locked in momentary register with another sentient being.’

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 Everard Read Cape Town and London, as well as Stevenson Cape Town and Johannesburg (2011, 2010 and 2014) and the Photographers’ Gallery in London (2013 and 2020). 

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. In 2017 Daniel Naudé published a book together with President Cyril Ramaphosa – ‘Cattle of the Ages’ published by Jacana Media 2017. Naudé took part in the Fall 2011 residency programme at Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado.

His work has been collected by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and Huis Marseille in Amsterdam, and can be found in many private collections.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025
Malagasy Cockerels, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2022  
The Bovine Prophecy: Xhosa cattle on the shore of the Wild Coast, Everard Read, London, UK

2021  
The Bovine Prophecy: Xhosa cattle on the shore of the Wild Coast, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2020
The Bovine Prophecy: Xhosa cattle on the shore of the Wild Coast, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa
The Bovine Prophecy, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK

2019
A Decade of Seeing, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
A Decade of Seeing, Everard Read, London, UK

2018
A Decade of Seeing, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

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

2013
Animal Farm, The Print Room, Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK 

2012
Animal Farm, Festival Artist, Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom, South Africa 

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

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

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025
EXPO CHICAGO, with Everard Read, Chicago, USA

2024
INNER SANCTUM, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2023
FNB Art Joburg, with Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2021
Spring Show, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
Oasis: 25th anniversary exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
In Conversation, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
Director’s Selection, Everard Read, London, UK

2020  
Youth-Hood, Life Framers Photography Award touring exhibition, New York, Tokyo, Paris, Milan and London
Unseen – 35 Years of Collecting Photographs, J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Staring Straight to the Future, online exhibition, Everard Read, UK & South Africa
Makay, a refuge in Malagasy land, Musée des Confluences, Lyons, France
Still, online exhibition, Everard Read, UK & South Africa
TINY2020, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
ODYSSEY, Everard Read, UK & South Africa
Imago, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

2018
Winter, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
BOTH, AND, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa 
Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo, Baden, Austria

2017
10 Years Old, Fondazione Fotografia, Modena, Italy
Festival La Gacilly Photo, La Gacilly, France

2016
La vie moderne, 13th Biennale de Lyon, France 
Unseen Photo Fair, The Photographer’s Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2015
La vie moderne, Lyon Biennale, France 
In Focus: Animalia, J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA 
Strange Worlds, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy 

2014
Chroma, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa 
Joseph Walsh, Johannes Nagel and Daniel Naudé, Artists House, New Art Centre, Wiltshire 
Apartheid and After, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

2013
The Loom of the Land, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa 

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

2010
PEEKABOO: New South Africa, Tennis Palace, Helsinki Art Museum, Finland 
Breaking News: Contemporary photography from the Middle East and Africa, Ex Ospedale Sant’Agostino, 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
Summer 2008/9: Projects, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa 

2008
University of Stellenbosch, Photokina, Köln, Germany 

2007
Greatest Hits of 2007, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 

RESIDENCIES 

2011
Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado, USA 

COLLECTIONS

Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy 
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA