DANIEL NAUDÉ

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. Since then, his stellar career has encompassed group and solo exhibitions on four continents. His work is in major museum, corporate and private collections internationally including the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft) collection. Some of his major commissions include the horses of the Oppenheimer family and the Ankole cattle of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Simply put, the animal is unpretentious. Animals do not pose, they merely exist. We attach meaning to animals, we read them as the carriers of our stories. And yet our own existence depends on them, and we cannot live without them. How we see animals are more telling of ourselves than of them. On a personal level when I meet them and see them through my viewfinder, something happens that gives me a better idea of my own existence. It adds substance to my understanding of what it means to exist.

It is important to approach the landscape and the animal with an open mind. In many ways, it comes down to the process of exploration, which is my drive and my fuel. I have also learned to be receptive towards and slowly immerse myself in my working environment. I always try to find the perfect balance between mindfulness and abandonment that comes from being in nature. To me it is a moment of stillness, a place where I am able to rest with the landscape and the animal. – From The Bovine Prophecy

EXHIBITIONS

EVERARD READ GALLERY LONDON, UK. 

22 November 2024 – 17 January 2025

WINTER 2024

KNYSNA FINE ART GALLERY 

Inner Sight – Group Exhibition

21 November 2024 –  January 2025

EVERARD READ GALLERY LONDON, UK. 

15 February 2022

The Bovine Prophecy – Xhosa cattle on the shore of the wild coast. 

Solo exhibition

 MUSÉE DES CONFLUENCES, LYON, FRANCE

16 October 2020 – 21 August 2021

Makay. Collecting of Naudé Madagascar works from Sightings of the Sacred project

EVERARD READ GALLERY JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

8 April 2021 – 30 April 2021

The Bovine Prophecy – Xhosa cattle on the shore of the wild coast. 

Solo exhibition

EVERARD READ GALLERY FRANSCHHOEK, SOUTH AFRICA

6 November 2020 – 23 November 2020

The Bovine Prophecy – Xhosa cattle on the shore of the wild coast. 

Solo exhibition

THE PHOTOGRAPHERS’ GALLERY LONDON, UK

13 August 2020 – 10 September 2020

The Bovine Prophecy – Xhosa cattle on the shore of the wild coast. 

Solo exhibition

EVERARD READ GALLERY JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

25 June 2020 – 28 July 2020

Tiny - Group exhibition

EVERARD READ GALLERY CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

19 June 2020 – 22 July 2020

Still lives

Group exhibition

EVERARD READ GALLERY CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

4 April 2020 – 3 May 2020

Solidarity Fund

Group exhibition

THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES, USA

17 Dec 2019 – 8 March 2020

Unseen. 35 Years of Collecting Photographs.

Group exhibition

EVERARD READ GALLERY LONDON, ENGLAND

13 Feb – 2 March 2019

A Decade of Seeing. 

Solo exhibition

EVERARD READ GALLERY CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

4 Dec 2018 – 4 Jan 2019

A Decade of Seeing.

Solo exhibition

LA GACILLY PHOTO FESTIVAL BADEN, AUSTRIA

08 June – 30 September 2018

Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo. Baden, Austria

Group exhibition

STEVENSON GALLERY. Cape Town, South Africa

5 July – 24 August 2018

BOTH, AND… A group exhibition reflecting on 15 years of the gallery’s existence.

Group exhibition

EVERARD READ GALLERY CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

16 June – 11 July 2018

WINTER Show. Cape Town, South Africa

Group exhibition

EVERARD READ GALLERY JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

17 May – 9 June 2018
Botanical Show.

Group exhibition

EVERARD READ GALLERY JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

22 February 2018 – 31 March 2018

A Decade of Seeing. Selected works from (2007-2017)

Solo exhibition

LA GACILLY, FRANCE

3 June – 30 September 2017

Festival La Gacilly Photo – La Gacilly France

LYON, FRANCE

10 September 2015 – 3 January 2016

13th BIENNALE DE LYON – LA VIE MODERNE

AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

23 – 25 September 2016

Unseen Photo Fair – The Photographers’ Gallery

LOS ANGELES, USA

26 May – 18 October 2015

In Focus: Animalia – J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM, Los Angeles

MODENA, ITALY

9 July – 6 September 2015

Strange Worlds – works part of the collection of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Moden

In Modena at Foro Boario, via Bono da Nonantola 2

Previous exhibitions and shows include: solo exhibitions at Stevenson Cape Town and Johannesburg (2011, 2010 and 2014) and a show of 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; 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).

AWARDS:

Winner - Life Framer’s Youth-hood category, selected by Guggenheim fellow Greg Miller in 2020.

PUBLICATIONS:

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. His third book, Cattle of the Ages together with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was published by Jacana media (2017). He self-published his fourth book, The Bovine Prophecy in 2020.

RESIDENCIES:

Naudé took part in the Fall 2011 residency programme at Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado.