Roger Ballen
1950 Born in 1950, New York.
1972 BA, Psychology, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
1981 PhD, Mineral Economics, colorado school of mines
1981 MS, Geology, University of Colorado
2018 Honorary Doctor of Art and Design, KINGSTON UNIVERSITY, UNITED KINGDOM
2022 Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa
BOOKS
2022 Des Oiseaux, Roger Ballen – Atelier EXB, France
2022 Boyhood, second edition – Damiani SRL, Italy
2022 Ballenesque Roger Ballen: A Retrospective paperback edition – Thames & Hudson, UK
2020 Roger the Rat – Hatje Cantz, Germany
2020 The Earth Will Come to Laugh and Feast, by Gabrielle Tinti and Roger Ballen – PowerHouse Books, USA
2019 The World According to Roger Ballen - Thames & Hudson, UK
2019 Asylum of the Birds Second Edition - Thames & Hudson, UK
2017 Ballenesque Roger Ballen: A Retrospective - Thames & Hudson, UK
2017 Unleashed, Roger Ballen, Hans Lemmen - Kerber Verlag
2017 Roger Ballen – Polaroids, volume 1 - Alex Daniels, Reflex Editions, Amsterdam
2016 The Theatre of Apparitions, Roger Ballen in collaboration with Marguerite Rossouw
- Thames & Hudson, UK
2016 Roger Ballen Appearances, Disappearances, Reappearances - Nazraeli Press, USA
2016 No Joke, Asger Carlsen, Roger Ballen - Morel, UK
2015 Resurrected, Toinen Tuleminen - Kerber Art/Serlachius Museot, Finland
2012 The House Project, Didi Bozzini - Oodee Books, UK
2015 Elemental, Roger Ballen and Adam Ganz - Hotshoe, UK
2015 Outland - Phaidon USA, UK First published 2000, Reprinted 2009, Second edition, revised and expanded
2014 The Audience - Nazraeli Press, USA
2014 Roger Ballen’s Theatre of the Absurd - Pug Oslo, Norway
2014 Asylum of the Birds -Thames and Hudson, UK
2013 Roger Ballen and Die Antwoord, I Fink U Freeky - Random House Prestel, USA, UK
2013 Lines, Marks and Drawings: Through the Lens of Roger Ballen - Smithsonian National Museum of African Art Washington DC, DelMonico Books, Prestel, USA
2012 Roger Ballen – introduction by Dominique Eddé - Photo Poche, France
2011 Animal Abstraction - Reflex, Netherlands
2010 Roger Ballen Photographs 1969 – 2009 Ulrich Pohlman - Kerber Verlag, Germany
2009 Boarding House - Phaidon Press, UK
2005 Shadow Chamber - Phaidon Press, UK
2005 Outland - Phaidon Press, UK
1994 Platteland, Images from Rural South Africa, William Watermark Publications, South Africa
1997 Cette Afrique La - Photo Pouche series, Editions Nathan, France
1986 Dorps, Small Towns of South Africa - Clifton Publications, South Africa
1979 Boyhood - Chelsea House Publishers, USA, UK
FILMS
2020 Roger the Rat, Executive producer Roger Ballen, Director Justin Elgie, Artistic Director Marguerite Rossouw
2020 No Exit – Revisited, Virtual Reality Production, Executive Producer Roger Ballen, Executive Director Renaud Gramolini
2018 TateShots – A Good Picture Comes from Nowhere, Roger Ballen, Director Marie-Therese Hildebrandt
2018 No Exit, Wiesbaden, Roger Ballen, Directors Roger Ballen, Jakob Klaffs and Maria Magdalena Ludewig
2017 Ballenesque, Roger Ballen, Director Roger Ballen, Artistic Director Marguerite Rossouw
2017 House of the Ballenesque, Roger Ballen, Directors Florent Demarchez and Laurent Perraeau
2017 Tommy Can’t Sleep Music Video by Die Antwoord, Creative Dorector Roger Ballen
2016 Theatre of Apparitions, Roger Ballen, Directors Emma Calder and Ged Haney
2016 Theatre of the Mind, Roger Ballen, Directors Tanja Bruckner, Roger Ballen and Marguerite Rossouw
2016 You May Be a Photographer, But Are You an Artist? Roger Ballen, Director Ullrich Grill Cooperative of Photography
2016 Outland, Roger Ballen, British Journal of Photography, Directors Seymour, T; Cox, T; Bainbridge S; Spatz, JM
2014 Asylum of the Birds, Roger Ballen, Directors Ben Crossman and Roger Ballen
2013 Asylum, Roger Ballen, Director Saskia Vredeveld
2012 I fink you Freeky Music Video by Die Antwoord, Directors Roger Ballen and Ninja
2012 Behind the Scenes with Die Antwoord and Roger Ballen, Director Peter Schiering
2009 Breakfast with Roger Ballen: Audio interview and 25 photos, Director Jim Casper Lensculture magazine
2005 Memento Mori, Roger Ballen, Director Saskia Vredeveld The Netherlands Film Fund
2002 Selfportrait, Roger Ballen, Director Saskia Vredeveld Netherlands Broadcasting Cooperation
1995 Platteland, Images from Rural South Africa, Roger Ballen, Director David Thomas ITV Television South Bank Show, London
1986 Dorps, Small Towns of South Africa. A Film documentary on Roger Ballen’s book, South African Broadcasting Corporation
1972 Ill Wind. Director Roger Ballen
AWARDS
2019 Bokeh Lifetime Achievement Award for 2019
2018 Kingston University, United Kingdom, Honorary Doctor of Art and Design
2017 The Asia Pacific Brands Foundation Legendary Award
2014 Suddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Artist of the year, 2014 (See Issue 46, November 14, 2014)
2010 Lucie Award, Finalist for Solo Exhibition of the year, George Eastman House
2009 PhotoEspana 2009, Madrid Spain, Honourable mention - Best Photographic Book of the Year for
Boarding House
2006 Art Directors Club Award Photography
2004 Honorable Mention, UNICEF Photo of the Year
2004 Top 10 Exhibition 2004, Matthew Higgs, Artforum, December 2004
2002 Photographer of the Year 2002, Rencontres d’Arles, July
2002 Photographer of the Year 2002, Rencontres d’Arles
2001 Photo-eye, Best Documentary Title, Best Photography Books of 2001
2001 Special mention: UNICEF Photo of the Year 2001
2001 PhotoEspana 2001, Madrid Spain, Best Photographic Book of the Year
2000 Sani Festival, Thessaloniki Greece, Best Solo Exhibition, February 2000
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of South Australia, South Adelaide, Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Berkeley Art Museum, California, USA
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, USA
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Alabama, USA
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Centre National de L’audivisuel, Dudelange, Luxembourg
Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, China
Centro Fotografico Manual Alvarez Bravo, Mexico
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison Wisconsin, USA
Cleveland Museum, Cleveland, Ohio USA
Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Fotomuseum, Munchen, Germany
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, USA
Getty Museum, Los Angeles California, USA
Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Hasselblad, Goteborg, Sweden
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
International Center for Phtography, New York, USA
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Iziko National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Johannesburg Art Museum, South Africa
Kuntsammlung Jena, Jena Germany
Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Louisiana Museum, Denmark
Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris, France
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
MOMus Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece
MONA Museum, Hobart, Tasmania
Musée de la Photographie á Charleroi, Belgium
Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark
Museo nazionale Della Fotographia, Brescia, Italy
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
National Museum of Film and Photography, Bradford UK
National Art Gallery Sofia, Bulgaria
New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, USA
Oliewenhuis, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Palm Springs Art Museum, California, USA
Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
San Francisco Museum of Art, USA
Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland
SMAK, Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Gent, Belgium
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C., USA
Spencer Art Museum, Kansas, USA
State Museum of Russia, Moscow, Russia
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tate Britain, London, UK
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Centre, VASSAR College, New York, USA
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
The Jewish Museum, New York City, United States
The Menil Collection, Houston, USA
The Museum at Bethel Woods, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts in Yekaterinburg, Russia
The Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, USA
University of California Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California USA
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky USA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia, USA
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA
Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
