biography / bibliography
MALICK SIDIBÉ
Born in Soloba, Mali in 1936
Lives in Bamako, Mali
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Malick Sidibé, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, July 1–August 5, 2011.
The Eye of Bamako, M+B, Los Angeles, February 5–April 9, 2011.
2010
Malick Sidibé, Lichfield Studios, London, March 11–April 16, 2010.
2008
Regardez-moi: Photographs by Malick Sidibé, University Art Gallery, University of San Diego, California, November 10–December 6, 2008. Organized by Tina Yapelli.
2007–2008
Malick Sidibé, Chemises, Fotografiemuseum (FOAM), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 13–October 15, 2008. Traveled to: Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur Saône, France. Curated by Paul Cottin, Jérôme Sother. (Catalogue)
2005
Malick Sidibé: Photographs: 1960–2004, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, January 7–February 5, 2005.
2004
Malick Sidibé, The Cartier Foundation, Paris
2003
Studio Malick, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2002
Mali, 1974, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Malick Sidibé, Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris
2001
Malick Sidibé, Galleria Nozaionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
Malick Sidibé, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000
Malick Sidibé: The Clubs of Bamako, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston
Malick Sidibé: Et l’art se met au Monde, Nouveau Musée de Villeurbane, Villeurbanne, France
Malick Sidibé, Centre d’art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Malick Sidibé: Porträt Afrika, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
1999
Biennale d’Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Malick Sidibé, Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, Illinois
Malick Sidibé, Photo Espana 1999, Madrid, Spain
Malick Sidibé, Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia
Malick Sidibé: The Clubs of Bamako, Deitch Projects, New York
1998
Malick Sidibé, Institut Français d’Athènes, Athens, Greece
Malick Sidibé, Institut Français de Thessalonique, Thessalonique, Greece
1997
Retrats de l’Anima: Fotografia Africana, Fundacio la Caixa, Madrid, Spain
Malick Sidibé: Photografie 1962–1976, Clubs und Twist und Chats Sauvages, Institut Für Auslandsbeziehungen (I.F.A.), Stuttgart, Germany
1995
Malick Sidibé, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Contemporary African Photography: Zwelethu Mthethwa & Malick Sidibe, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina, January 13–June 16, 2012.
2010–2012
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, September 2, 2010–February 6, 2011. Traveled to: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, April 15–September 5, 2011; Miami Art Museum, Florida, March 18–June 10, 2012; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, July 14–October 7, 2012. Curated by Trevor Schoonmaker. (Catalogue)
2011–2012
Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, August 11, 2011–January 8, 2012.
2011
Daniele Tamagni & Africolor, Danziger Projects, New York, July 14–September 10, 2011.
Out of the Dark Room: The David Kronn Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, July 20–October 9, 2011.
2010
The Walther Collection, Burlafingen, Germany. Curated by Okwui Enwezor.
2009
Posing Beauty, Tisch School of the Arts, New York
2008
Prospect 1 New Orleans, Louisiana
The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles, Grey Art Gallery, New York
Black Womanhood, The Hood Museum, Hanover, New Hampshire
People, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York
2007
Think with the Senses Feel with the Mind, curated by Robert Storr at the 52nd Annual Venice Biennale at the Italian Pavilion
June Bride, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
2006
The Whole World is Rotten, The Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Subject, selections from The Cartin Collection, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut
2004–2006
Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 23, 2004–January 31, 2005. Traveled to: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, May 7–June 16, 2006. (Catalogue; texts by Jacquelyn Days Serwer, Paul Roth, Merry A. Foresta, and Julia J. Norrell)
2005
Linkages and Themes in the African Diaspora: Selections from the Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton Family Art Collection, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco
Impressions of Africa, Helen Day Art Center, Vermont
Earth and Memory: African and African-American Photograph, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Presbyterian College, Clinton, South Carolina
2004–2005
Image and Identity: Portraits by Philip Kwame Apagya, Samuel Fosso, Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibé, The Sheldon Art Galleries, Saint Louis, Missouri
African Art, African Voices, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
2004
Common Ground, Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections from the Collection of Julia Norrell, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.
A Charge to Keep, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Staged Realities: The Studio in African Photography 1870–2004, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
2003–2004
Photographs from the Permanent Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2003
Portraiture (Every Picture Tells A Story), Solomon Projects, Atlanta, Georgia
2002
Untitled, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Hot Groove, Gallery M, New York
2001–2002
The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994, traveling to: Museum Villa Stuck, Munich Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Martin-Gropius-Bau, Belgium. Curated by Okwui Enwezor.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
P.S. 1 Museum for Contemporary Art, New York
2001
You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé, The Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1995
Seydou Keïta – Malick Sidibé, Fruit Market Gallery, 2ème Festival International de la Photographie Ecossaise, Edinburgh, Great Britain
AWARDS
2008
International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement
2007
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award by the Board of La Biennale di Venezia
2003
Hasselblad Award
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Collection of the United States Embassy
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Brooklyn Museum, New York
The Getty Museum, Los Angeles
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
International Center of Photography, New York
LaSalle Bank, Chicago
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York