Guy Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962.
He started photographing professionally in 1986, working with Afrapix collective until 1990.
His work as a freelance photographer include positions at Reuter and Agence France Press.
Guy Tillim lives and works in Vermaaklikheid in the Western Cape, South Africa
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HCB Award, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France
Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, awarded by the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, MA
Leica Oskar Barnack Award (for the Jo’burg series), Germany
Daimler Chrysler Award for Photography, South Africa
Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Award, Japan
Prix SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia) Roger Pic, France (for Kuito, Angola)
Prix Care for Humanitarian Reportage, Finalist, France
Mondi Award (S.A.) for photojournalism (report on the Himba people of Northern Namibia)
Berlin, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
Museum of the Revolution, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France
Museum of the Revolution, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
Jo´burg, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany
Caligari, Fondazione di Sardegna, Italy
O Futuro Certo, Museo d´Arte Contemporanea Rome, Italy
Museum of the Revolution, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Edit Beijing, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Points Of View, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
Jo’burg: Points Of View, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
Jo’burg, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
Second Nature, Centre photographique d’Ile-de-France, Pontault Combault, France
Libreville, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Second Nature, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
Second Nature, Huis Marseille stichting voor fotografie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Second Nature II, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Second Nature, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, CAC – Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Second Nature, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Avenue Patrice Lumumba Exhibit, Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, MoCP – The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Extra City – Kunsthal Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Extraspazio, Rome, Italy
Avenida Patrice Lumumba, Museu Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
Guy Tillim, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France
Guy Tillim, Haunch of Venison, Zurich, Switzerland
Guy Tillim, Haus Für Kunst, Altdorf, Switzerland
Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Congo Democratic, Extraspazio, Rome, Italy
Congo Democratic, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Petros Village, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Italy
Petros Village, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Guy Tillim, Leica Galerie Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Leopold and Mobutu, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, Great Britain
Jo’burg, Rencontres Photographiques de Bamako, Mali
Jo’burg, Festival Artist, PhotoEspana, Madrid, Spain
Jo’burg, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
Jo’burg, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
DaimlerChysler Award exhibition, Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany, and DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Leopold and Mobutu, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Kunhinga Portraits, Sala Uno, Rome, Italy
Kunhinga Portraits, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Congo, Bell-Roberts Photographic Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Congo, Fotofiesta Medellin, Colombia
Departure, Higashikawa Photo Festival, Hokkaido, Japan
Departure, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Departure, NSA Galley, Durban, South Africa
Departure, PhotoZA, Johannesburg, South Africa
Kuito, Angola, Societe des Auteurs Multimedia, Paris, France
Kuito, Angola, South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
Kuito, Angola, Gallery Dupon, Paris, France
Kabul, Afghanistan, Durban Centre for Photography, Durban, South Africa
Concretos, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Shifting Dialogues Photography from the Walther Collection, K21, Dusseldorf, Germany
Friendship. Nature. Culture – 44 years Daimler Art Collection, Mercedes Benz Art Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
Transport commun, Société Genérale Art Collection, Paris, France
African Adventure – Künstlerische Positionen aus und über Afrika, Kunstverein Eislingen, Eislingen, Germany
Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Perez Art Museum, Miami
Global(e) Resistance – Pour une histoire engagée de la collection contemporain de Jonathas Andrade à Billie Zangewa, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Des marches, démarches, Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
Crossing Nights: Regional Identities x Global Context,Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, USA
Evoking Reality. Konstitution von Wirklichkeit in Fotografie und Videokunst, Daimler Contemporary Berlin
Recent Histories, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography Amsterdam
Structures of Identity – Photography from the Walther Collection,FOAM Amsterdam
Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Albuquerque Museum
Extreme Territories, RAY Photography Triennale, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany
10 YEARS OLD // 2007-2017: a history of the world told through the images of the Fondazione Cassa di risparmio di Modena Collection, Modena, Foro Boario
Il Cacciatore Bianco / The White Hunter: African memories and representations, FM Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea – Milan
Afrique Capitales, La Villette, Paris, France
A Short History of South African Photography, Fotografia Europea 2017: Time maps. Memory, archives, future, Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia, Italy
FOTOGRAFIA – Festival Internazionale di Roma, Rome Italy
On the Subject of the Ready-made, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
(Infra) Structure: Complex, Below And Further On, Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
A Verdant Summer, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York City, NY
Rome Commission, Instituto Italiano di Cultura di Londra, London
Schema, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Making Africa – Un Continente De Diseño Contemporáneo, Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao, Spain
After Eden – Photography from The Walther Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Strange Worlds – Works from the collection, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Modena, Italy
Construyendo mundos – Fotografía y arquitectura en la era moderna, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Spain
The Order of Things – Photography from The Walther Collection, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
The Divine Comedy – Heaven, Purgatory And Hell Revisited By Contemporary African Artists, National Museum of African Art – Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
Making Africa – A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Spatial Stories, Center for Visual Art (CVA), Denver, CO
Fotografie: International – Video, Mixed Media, Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
Open Museum Open City – MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
The Divine Comedy – Heaven, Purgatory And Hell Revisited By Contemporary African Artists, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age, Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain
How Far How Near, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Perspectives 1, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Destini/Storie/Vite. Fotografie dalla Collezione Fondazione cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia (CAMeC), La Spezia Italy
Present Tense, Centro de Arte Moderna – CAM – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Room Service – Vom Hotel in der Kunst und Künstlern im Hotel, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Die Göttliche Komödie. Himmel, Hölle, Fegefeuer aus Sicht afrikanischer Gegenwartskünstler, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Apartheid & After, Huis Marseille stichting voor fotografie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Prix Pictet: Power, The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Dark Blue – The Water as Protagonist, Haggerty Museum of Art – Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Power, Aperture Gallery, New York City, NY
Das Fenster im Blick, Art Foyer der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Power, Artstation, Tel Aviv
My Joburg – Kunstszene Johannesburg, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden, Germany
Fotografia – Festival Internazionale Di Roma. Vacatio, MACRO Museo d´Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
Present Tense – Photographies du Sud de l´Afrique, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France
Power, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Power, Warehouse A’, Port of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
My J’oburg, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Distance and Desire: Encou nters with the African Archive, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
Power, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Cityscapes – Cinco Fábulas Urbanas, CENTROCENTRO CIBELES DE CULTURA Y CIUDADANÍA, Madrid, Spain
Prix Pictet – Power, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
Power – Prix Pictet, Huis Marseille stichting voor fotografie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
SERRALVES COLLECTION: RECENT WORKS, Museu Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
Aufstieg und Fall der Apartheid: Fotografie und Bürokratie des täglichen Lebens, Haus der Kunst München, Munich, Germany
Prix Pictet Power, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
Power, Hungarian House of Photography in Mai Manó House, Budapest, Hungary
1era. Bienal de Montevideo 2012 – El Gran Sur (The Great South), BIENAL DE MONTEVIDEO, Montevideo, Uruguay
Power, Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris, France
The Traveller – A Visual Journey by Alexander Ramselaar, Tent – Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Power, Bernheimer Fine Art Photography, Munich, Germany
_ The Prix Pictet – Power Exhibition_, The Saatchi Gallery, London, Great Britain
Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, ICP – International Center of Photography, New York City, NY
Viewpoint / A closer look at showing, Huis Marseille stichting voor fotografie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wir sind die anderen – We are the others, Art Foyer der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Lost Places – Orte der Photographie, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Auf Augenhöhe: Meisterwerke aus Mittelalter und Moderne, Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
La Triennale 2012 – Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Africa/Africa – Abbaye St André, Centre d’art contemporain Meymac, Meymac, France
African Photography: For Whose Eyes?, Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady, NY
Prix Pictet – Growth, Ayyam Gallery – Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Prix Pictet – Growth, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, South Africa
Prix Pictet: Growth, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
GROWTH – Prix Pictet, arteversum, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Eye is a Lonely Hunter – Images of Humankind, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany
Beyond Frontiers – Summer show, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
Present Tense, Gulbenkian. Próximo Futuro, Lisbon, Portugal
Appropriated Landscapes, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
Prix Pictet, Christophe Guye Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Il corpo metafora di un’esperienza, CIAC – Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea, Foligno, Italy
Growth – Prix Pictet, Warehouse A’, Port of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Photography: New Documentary Forms, Tate Modern, London, Great Britain
New Documentaries Form at Tate Modern, Akbank Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum – V&A, London, Great Britain
Possible Cities: Africa In Photography and Video, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Where is my Place?, La Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
FINE ART 2010, ARTCO Galerie GmbH, Herzogenrath
DRAMA in SEVEN ACTS, OMC Gallery For Contemporary Art, Huntington Beach, CA
BREAKING NEWS. Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa, Ex Ospedale Sant’Agostino, Modena, Italy
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Always Moving Forward, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography , Toronto, ON
Photography Group Show, Galerie van der Mieden, Antwerp, Belgium
ARTCO – FINE ART, ARTCO Galerie GmbH, Herzogenrath, Germany
Summer 2009/10: Projects, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
WELT – BILDER 3, Stadthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
EX NUGIS SERIA d’Afrique et d’ailleurs…, Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent-sur Marne, France
Beyond Beauty: Photographs from the Duke University Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, NC
Kunst aus einhundert Jahren 1909 – 2009. Highlights der Daimler Kunst Sammlung, Galerie im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
Thy Brothers’ Keeper, Kulturzentrum Zehntscheuer, Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany
prospekt Johannesburg, Gl Holtegaard, Holte
Die Tropen, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Great Expectations – Contemporary Photography Looks At Today’S Bitter Years, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
Mercedes- Benz Award for South African Art and Culture 2009, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Then & now: South African photography, MGA – Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Victoria, Australia
Face of Our Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
is it tomorrow yet?, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Zones of Conflict, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York City, NY
A Look Away – South African photography today, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
Die Tropen. Ansichten von der Mitte der Weltkugel,Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Snap Judgments, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Home Lands-Land Marks: Contemporary Art from South America, Haunch of Venison – London, Great Britain
Peripheral vision and collective body, MUSEION – Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano, Italy
Then and Now: Eight South African Photographers, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC
Cities in Crisis – Photographs of the South African Urban Landscape, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Guy Tillim (RSA) und Verborgene Welten mit Vanessa Püntener (CH) und Olga Titus (CH), Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf, Switzerland
Reality Check, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Os Tropicos – Die Tropen, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – CCBB – Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Biennale Cuvée, OK Offenes Kulturhaus OÖ, Linz, Austria
Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Summer 2007/8, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2nd Arts in Marrakech International Biennale, Marrakech Biennale Association, Marrakech, Morocco
Os Tropicos – Die Tropen, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – CCBB – Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Südafrika, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
South Africa on Paper, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, Australia
Africa Remix – Contemporary art of a continent, Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg, South Africa
Global Cities, Tate Modern, London, Great Britain
Documenta 12, Documenta, Kassel, Germany
Thy Brothers’ Keeper, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Juicios instantáneos, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Südafrika, NBK – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Another World – Bamako 2005, CENTRALE for contemporary art, Brussels, Belgium
South African Art Now, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
27° Bienal de São Paulo, Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Africa Remix, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Photography, Video, Mixed Media III, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
VU!, Noorderlicht Fotogalerie, Groningen, Netherlands
Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, Miami Art Central, Miami, FL
Africa Remix – Contemporary Art of a Continent, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Thy Brothers Keeper, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Outside Europe, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Snap Judgments – New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, ICP – International Center of Photography, New York City, NY
Outside Europe – Aus der Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
South African art 1848 – now, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Africa Remix – Contemporary art of a continent, Centre Pompidou – Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
Africa Remix – Contemporary Art of a Continent, Hayward Gallery, London, Great Britain
Afrika Remix – Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents, Museum
Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
A Decade of Democracy: South African art from the permanent collection, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Festival Internazionale di Roma, Rome, Italy
UNVEILED, OMC Gallery For Contemporary Art, Dusseldorf, Germany
Positions of South African Photography – Today, OMC Gallery For Contemporary Art, Dusseldorf, Germany
Shooting Resistance: South African Photography 1976 – 1994, Axis Gallery Inc., New York City, NY
Foreign Affairs: Conflicts In The Global Village, The Alternative Museum (TAM), New York City, NY
eyeAfrica: African Photography 1840-1998, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa
Colors: Art from South Africa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France
DZ Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
Fondation Leschot, Freiburg, CH
Fundacao de Serralves, Porto
Fundacio Foto Colectania, Barcelona
Gordon Schachat Collection, Johannesburg
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, USA
Huis Marseilles Fotomuseum, Amsterdam
International Centre of Photography, New York
Johannesburg Art Gallery, SA
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sasol Corporate Art Collection
South African National Gallery – Iziko Museums, Cape Town
South African Reserve Bank Art Collection
Standard Bank Arfrican Art Collection
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tate Modern, London
The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen and New York