Cedric Nunn

2025: unScene from the Cedric Nunn Archive, Satellite Gallery, Durban University of Technology, Durban
2019: Blood Relatives, Oliewenhuis Art Museum and Vrystaat Arts Festival, Bloemfontein
2018: Return: Surviving Dispossession, Genocide and Erasure, Homecoming Centre, District Six Museum, Cape Town
2017: Unsettling Colonialism: Frontier and Intimate Spaces, Centre for African Studies Gallery, Cape Town
2017: Unsettled, Nelson Mandela Metropole University (NMMU), Bird Street Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth
2016: Unsettled, Umsunduzi Museum, Pietermaritzburg
2016: Unsettled, Johannes Stegmann Gallery, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
2016: Unsettled, David Krut Gallery, Johannesburg
2016: Unsettled, Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth, Germany
2015: Unsettled: One Hundred Years War of Resistance by Xhosa Against Boer, WITS Art Museum, Johannesburg
2014: People Live Here: 20 Years of Democracy, Msunduzi Museum, Pietermaritzburg
2013: Call and Response, Omenka Gallery, Lagos
2013: Cornfields: A 1913 Land Act Story, Sophiatown Cultural and Heritage Centre, Johannesburg
2012: Call and Response, David Krut Projects, New York
2011: Call and Response, Galerie Seippel, Germany
2011: Call and Response, Museum Africa, Johannesburg
2011: Convergence, KwaMuhle Museum, South Africa
2011: Blood Relatives, Durban Art Gallery, Durban
2011: Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris
2010: In Camera, Albert Luthuli Museum, Groutville, KwaZulu-Natal
2009: Cedric Nunn: Revision, Bailey Seippel Gallery, Johannesburg
2005: Blood Relatives, Old Fort Gallery, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa
1997: Malhawu, Macufe Arts Festival, Bloemfontein
1997: Blood Relatives, Playhouse, Durban
1995: The Hidden Years, KwaMuhle Museum, Durban

2022: Norval Sovereign African Arts Award Exhibition, Norval Foundation, Cape Town
2021: Revelations (with Samora Chapman), Durban Art Gallery, Durban
2020: Undermined: The Social Cost of Mining to People and Planet, Online exhibition, Jozi Book Fair
2019: Exclamating, Still! On the Noise of Images, 12th Rencontres de Bamako, Bamako
2019: Blood Relatives, Oliewenhuis Art Museum and Vrystaat Arts Festival, Bloemfontein
2018: The Art of Activism, Durban Art Gallery, Durban
2018: Return: Surviving Genocide, Dispossession and Erasure, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town
2016: Beyond Binaries, Essence Festival, Durban; Durban Art Gallery; KZNSA
2013: Lights, camera, fire, artSPACE, Durban
2010: Bonani Africa
2010: Festival of Photography, Iziko Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
2010: 1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
2010: Joburg Art Fair, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg
2010: Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg
2010: UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria
2009: Voices, End Conscription Campaign, Spier, Stellenbosch
2009: Then and Now: Eight South African Photographers, UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria
2008: Then and Now: Eight South African Photographers, Iziko Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
2007: Then and Now: Eight South African Photographers, Rhodes University, Grahamstown
2007: Then and Now: Eight South African Photographers, Durban Art Gallery, Durban
2004: Fatherhood Project, Museum Africa, Johannesburg
2003: Youth on the Move, Parliament, Cape Town
2000: Every Child is My Child, African Window Museum, Pretoria
2000: Living in a Strange Land, Parliament, Cape Town
2000: Emotions and Relations, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg
1999: Lines of Sight: Perspectives in South African Photography, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
1999: Workers, The Workers Library & Museum, Johannesburg
1998: National Development Agency, Workers Library, Johannesburg
1997: South African National Gallery Contemporary Collection, Cape Town
1997: NGO Coalition, Johannesburg
1995: Black Looks, White Myths, Africus Johannesburg Biennale, MuseumAfrica, Johannesburg
1994: This Land is Our Land, Bloemfontein
1989: Beyond the Barricades, Market Photo Gallery, Johannesburg
1988: Ten Years of Staffrider, Market Photo Gallery, Johannesburg
1987: History Workshop, Wits University, Johannesburg
1985: South Africa – The Cordoned Heart, University of Cape Town, Cape Town
1984: Women at Work, Johannesburg

2021: Revelations (with Samora Chapman), Palacio de Ferro, Luanda, Angola
2019: Highly Personal – South African Artists and Their Handprint Portraits, Daiter Gallery, Chicago
2019: Soil is an inscribed body: On Sovereignty, Agropoetics and Struggles for Liberations, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
2018: Terre d'Uomini, Fondazione Fotografia, Modena
2016: In Plain Sight. Social Life in Contemporary Photography from South Africa and Romania, apARTe Gallery, Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, “George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iasi
2012: Mine, Dubai Community Arts Centre, Dubai
2010: South African Photography: 1950 to 2010, Willy Brandt Haus, Berlin; Goch Museum, Goch, Germany
2010: Hearts and Minds, Savanah College of Art and Design, Georgia, USA
2010: Africa: See You, See Me!, Grey Art Gallery, New York; Accra; Lagos; Piazze della Signoria, Florence
2007: Then and Now: Eight South African Photographers, Melbourne Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; Sweden
2003: Johannesburg Alive, Bogotá, Colombia
2002: Group Portraits, Nine South African Families, Tropen Museum, Amsterdam
2002: Maison Descartes, Amsterdam Photography Biennale, Amsterdam
2002: Bamako African Photography Biennale, Bamako, Mali
2000: Capitals, Espace Matisse, Lille, France
1998: 3rd Festival of African Photography, Bamako, Mali
1998: Democracy’s Images: Photography and Visual Art after Apartheid, Bildmuseet, Umeå; Uppsala Art Museum, Borås Art Museum, Malmö Museum, Sundsvalls Museum, Sweden; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg; Impression Gallery, UK; Pori Art Museum, Finland
1996: Colours-Contemporary Art from South Africa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
1990: Zabalaza Festival, London, UK
1987: Culture in Another South Africa, Amsterdam, Holland. Health, South Africa & Germany
1985: South Africa: Cordoned Heart, International Centre for Photography, New York & The Photographers' Gallery, London
1983: Nicht Wir Uns Trennen, Germany

2010: Lecture, New York University, New York
2010: Panellist, ArchitectureZA 2010 Conference, Johannesburg
2010: Panellist, Africa on My Mind symposium, Savannah College of Arts and Design, Georgia, USA
2010: Presented a talk and slide show at the University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Cape Town
1999: Participant (delivered paper), Encounters Photography Conference, Cape Town

South African Broadcasting Corporation
South African Development Bank
SAQA
Transnet
Intersite
Sentech
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
Steers
Ukhozi FM
Ford Foundation
Cheadle Thompson and Haysom
Siemens
Johannesburg Housing Company
Generations
Radio Metro
MOTT Foundation
De Beers
Nedlac
Safer Africa
CANSA
PetroSA
Shanduka
Sheer Sounds

2021: Nunn Cedric (Photo Essay), Suttner Raymond (Ed), 25 Years of Democracy in South Africa, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Volume 56, No 1

2019: Jansen, Candice, Coloured Black: The Life & Works of Cedric Nunn & Ernest Cole, Doctoral dissertation, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER)

2011: Ralf-P. Seippel (ed.), Call and Response, Hatje Cantz and Fourthwall Books, Johannesburg

2015: Cedric Nunn, Unsettled: The 100 Year War of Resistance by Xhosa Against Boer and British, Penguin Random House, Johannesburg

2009: Darren Newbury, Defiant Images: Photography and Apartheid South Africa, Unisa Press, Pretoria

2007: Gavin Chawtra, Andre du Pisani & Abillah Omari (eds), Security and Democracy in Southern Africa, Wits University Press, Johannesburg

2004: Edgar Pieterse & Frank Meintjies (eds.), Voices of the transition: the politics, poetics and practices of social change in South Africa, Heinemann, Sandown

2004: Gwen Ansell, Soweto Blues: Jazz, Popular Music and Politics in South Africa, Continuum, New York

2003: Melanie Samson, Dumping on Women: Gender and Privatisation of Waste Management, SAMWU and Municipal Services Project, Athlone

2002: Omar Badsha (ed.) With Our Own Hands: Alleviating Poverty in South Africa, Department of Public Works, Pretoria

1998: Shamin Meer, Women Speak: Reflections On Our Struggle 1982-1997, Kwela Books, Cape Town

1998: Karen Hurt & Debbie Budlender (eds), Money Matters: Women and the Government Budget, Institute for Democracy in South Africa, Cape Town

1992: South Africa: State of Fear, Amnesty International, London

1990: Jürgen Schadeberg (ed.), Nelson Mandela and The Rise of the ANC, Bloomsbury, London

1989: Iris Tillman Hill & Alex Harris (eds), Beyond the Barricades: Popular Resistance in South Africa, Aperture Books in association with the Centre for Documentary Studies at Duke University, New York.

1989: Francis Wilson & Mamphela Ramphele (eds), Uprooting Poverty: The South African challenge, David Philip, Cape Town

1988: Andries Oliphant, Ten Years of Staffrider, Ravan Press, Johannesburg

1986: Omar Badsha (ed.), South Africa: The Cordoned Heart, Gallery Press, Cape Town & W.W. Norton and Co., New York (Text by Francis Wilson). Patricia Henderson, Waaihoek, Association for Rural Development, Pietermaritzburg

1985: Jane Barret et al., Vukani Makhosikazi: South African Women Speak, Catholic Institute for International Relations, London

2010: Delia Klask & Ralf-P Seipel (eds), South African Photography: 1950 to 2010, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern

2009: Andrew Armacost et al (eds), Beyond Beauty: The Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University, Duke University Press, Durham

2007: Michael Godby, Then and Now: Eight South African Photographers, Highveld Press, Johannesburg

2006: Department of Arts and Culture, South Africa (ed.), Africa is Calling: South African Arts and Culture Manifestation in Germany

1998: Jan Lundström & Katarina Pierre (eds) Democracy’s Images: Photography and Visual Art After Apartheid, Umeå University, Umeå

1995: Tumelo Mosaka & Octavio Zaya (eds.), Black Looks, White Myths, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de España, Spain (Africus Johannesburg Biennale catalogue)

South Africa: Die Vrye Weekblad, The Star, Sunday Express, The Rand Daily Mail, Sunday Times, Sunday Independent, City Press, Mail & Guardian, New Nation, South, The New African, Daily News, Natal Mercury, UmAfrika, Reconstruct.

Europe and the United States: London Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Guardian, New York Times, Boston Chronicle for Higher Education, Dagens Industri, Le Humanite.

South Africa: Ford Foundation Annual Report 1999/2000, Leadership, Indicator, Speak, Frontline, New Era, Pace, Drum, Upbeat, Learn and teach, Work in Progress, State of the Nation, Ecunews, Diakonia News, Cosmopolitan, Agenda, Critical Health, New Ground, Labour Bulletin, Financial Mail, Die Suid Afrikaan, Leading Edge, Finance Weeks, Development Bank of S.A., Success S.A. Enterprise

Europe and the United States: Jazz Times, Telerama, Nova Ecologia, Jeune Afrique, Der Spiegel and Panascope.

Independent Electoral Commission, Directorate for AIDS and Communicable Diseases, Beyond Awareness AIDS Media Campaign, Gauteng Department of Housing, Nordic Council of Ministers, President's Office, Department of Public Works, Department of Labour, Department of Health, Johannesburg City, ESETA, Johannesburg City Parks, Albert Luthuli Museums, National Development Agency, PetroSA, SaferAfrica, Transnet

2015: Lecturer, South African Artists in Focus series, the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Director, Endaweni Photographic, Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal 

2005: Director, 'Blood Relatives'™ Video Documentary, SABC

2004: Judge, Vodacom Photography Journalist of the Year awards

2003: Judge, Vodacom Photography Journalist of the Year awards

2002: Convener, Fuji Press Photo Awards

2001: Board member, The Bensusan Museum of Photography, MuseumAfrica, Johannesburg

2000: Beyond Awareness Campaign, a government-sponsored HIV/AIDS campaign to make media available to the public

1999: Judge, Fuji Press Awards

1998 - 2000: Director, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg

1998: Attended workshops and visited Helsinki as part of a South African delegation

1999: Curator, Lines of Sight: Perspectives on South African Photography, South African National Gallery

1982 -1990: Co-founded Afrapix with Paul Weinberg, Peter McKenzie and Omar Badsha

1974 - 1981: Worked at Hullets Sugar Mill, KwaZulu-Natal

2011: Inaugural FNB Art Prize winner
2016: eThekwini Living Legends Award