Robin Rhode (born 1976) is a South African artist based in Berlin. He has made wall drawings, photographs and sculptures.

Education

Rhode was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied fine art at Technikon Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (now the University of Johannesburg), followed by postgraduate work in 2000 at the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance.

Work

Rhode is represented by Lehmann Maupin. In November 2009 he provided stop-frame video animations for a performance by Leif Ove Andsnes of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition at the Lincoln Center in New York. In 2014 he directed a music video for the U2 single "Every Breaking Wave"; it includes stop-frame animation stencil drawings, and figures which interact with them.

Exhibitions and performances

Reception

In 2018 he won the Zurich Art Prize. Examples of his work are held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.