Mikhael subotzky biography
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Mikhael Subotzky
South African artist (born 1981)
Mikhael Subotzky (born Cape Town, South Africa, 1981) is a South African artist based in Johannesburg.
Mikhael Subotzky, born in Cape Town, South Africa, in , is a Johannesburg-based artist whose works in multiple mediums engage critically with the.
His installation, film, video and photographic work have been exhibited widely in museums and galleries, and received awards including the KLM Paul Huf Award, W. Eugene Smith Grant, Oskar Barnack Award and the Discovery Award at Rencontres d'Arles.
He has published the books Beaufort West (2008), Retinal Shift (2012) and, with Patrick Waterhouse, Ponte City (2014). Subotzky is a member of Magnum Photos and his work is held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[1][2]
Life and work
Subotzky graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 2004.
For his book Beaufort West, Subotzky photographed in and around a prison built within a traffic circle in the town of Beaufort West.[3][4]
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