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Adam Broomberg (b. 1970) is a South African artist, activist and educator. He currently lives and works in Berlin. He is a professor of photography at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK) in Hamburg and teaches in the MA Photography & Society program at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. For two decades, he was one half of the critically acclaimed artist duo Broomberg & Chanarin.   

@adambroomberg 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Glitter in My Wounds, signs and symbols, New York, New York, 2022
The Late Estate Broomberg & Chanarin, Fabra i Coats Centre D'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain, 2021
The Moon Looked Down and Laughed (two-person exhibition with Nik Christensen), Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany, 2021
Matthew Krouse, Kunsthallo, London, UK, 2021
Bureaucracy of Angels (online), signs and symbols, New York, New York, 2020
Rudiments, A4 Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa Seenfifteen, London, UK, 2019
WOE FROM WIT, Synthesis Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2019
Fig-futures, WEEK 3 / Broomberg & Chanarin, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK, 2018 
Bandage the knife, not the wound, Nogueras Blanchard Gallery, Madrid, Spain, 2018 
Bandage the knife, not the wound, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2018 
Broomberg & Chanarin: Divine Violence, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 2018
Not For Publication And Sale In Iran, Ag Galerie, Tehran, Iran, 2017
The Bureaucracy of Angels (commission), Kings Cross St. Pancras, Art on the Underground – TFL, London, UK, 2017
Trace Evidence, Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy, 2017
Don’t Start With The Good Old Things But The Bad New Ones, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany; traveled to Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2016
Rudiments, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, 2016
Art on the Underground, Stratford, London, UK, 2016
Every piece of dust on Freuds couch, Freud Museum, London, 2015
Rudiments, Lisson Gallery, London, UK, 2015
People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the Ground, Belfast Exposed, Belfast, UK, 2015
To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2015
Divine Violence, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 2015
Rudiments, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, 2015
Dodo, Fondación Jumex Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico, 2014
Divine Violence, MOSTYN, Llandudno, UK, 2014
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt, FotoMuseum, Antwerp, Belgium Scarti, TJ Boulting, London, UK, 2014
To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2013
To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light, Paradise Row, London, UK Portable Monuments, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2012
Poor Monuments, Paradise Row, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2011
Broomberg & Chanarin present: Dora Fobert, Paradise Row, London, UK Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2011
People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the Ground, Paradise Row, London, UK Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany, 2011
Prestige of Terror, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt Afterlife, Galeria Spafiska, Krakow, Poland, 2010
Ficciones, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 2009
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France, 2009
The Red House, Musée de lElysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; traveled to Brancolini Grimaldi, Rome, Italy, 2009
The Day Nobody Died, Paradise Row, London, UK, 2008
Fig., FotoFreo, Fremantle, Australia; Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK, 2008
Ghetto, Photomonth Festival, Krakow, Poland Fig., John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK, 2007
Facts, Fictions and Stories, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Chicago, Q Arts, Derby Photography Festival, UK, 2006
Defying Distance, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, 2005
Mr. Mkhizes Portrait, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK, 2004
Trusting the Truth, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa, 2003
Trust, The Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2000

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

Broomberg has exhibited in numerous group shows and fairs; Tate Modern (London), Museum for Contemporary Art (Sweden), Signs and Symbols gallery (New York), Whitechapel Gallery (London), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan), Palazzo Strozzi (Florence), Museo Archeologico e dArte della Maremma (Grosseto), Goodman Gallery (Cape Town), International Fair of Contemporary Art (Turin), Lisson Gallery (London), Art Basel (Switzerland & Miami), 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture (Venice), Paris Photo (Paris) and more. 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
International Center of Photography, New York, New York Magasin III - Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden MoMA, New York, New York
Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, France
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tate Collection, London, UK
V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut