DANIEL NAUDÉ

(b. 1984, Cape Town, South Africa)

For more than a decade, photographer Daniel Naudé has practised capturing and perfecting moments of stillness in the natural realm. Martin Barnes, senior curator of photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, observes that each of Naudé's photographs 'is a shared moment in time, one in which the animal and the human seem at once named and yet nameless, specific and yet universal. There is a mutual "now-ness" to his arresting human-animal gazes, mediated by the camera. In total, they read like a remarkable series of ecstatic, intensified meeting points in which we query what it means to be alive, locked in momentary register with another sentient being.’

Naudé was born in 1984 in Cape Town, where he continues to live. He graduated with a BA Visual Arts Honours degree from the University of Stellenbosch in 2007. Naudé has had solo exhibitions at Everard Read Cape Town and London, as well as Stevenson Cape Town and Johannesburg (2011, 2010 and 2014) and the Photographers’ Gallery in London (2013 and 2020). 

Naudé’s first book, ‘Animal Farm’, was published by Prestel in 2012, followed by ‘Sightings of the Sacred: Cattle in India, Uganda and Madagascar’ in 2016, also by Prestel. In 2017 Daniel Naudé published a book together with President Cyril Ramaphosa – ‘Cattle of the Ages’ published by Jacana Media 2017. Naudé took part in the Fall 2011 residency programme at Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado.

His work has been collected by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and Huis Marseille in Amsterdam and by many others such as Paul Allen the co-founder of Microsoft. 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025    Malagasy Cockerels, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2022    The Bovine Prophecy: Xhosa cattle on the shore of the Wild Coast, Everard Read, London, UK

2021    The Bovine Prophecy: Xhosa cattle on the shore of the Wild Coast, Everard Read, London, UK

2021    The Bovine Prophecy: Xhosa cattle on the shore of the Wild Coast, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2020    The Bovine Prophecy: Xhosa Cattle on the Shore, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

2019    A Decade of Seeing, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
            A Decade of Seeing, Everard Read, London, United Kingdom

2018    Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo. Baden, Austria

            A Decade of Seeing, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2017    Festival La Gacilly Photo – La Gacilly France

            Moden In Modena at Foro Boario, via Bono da Nonantola 2

2016    13th BIENNALE DE LYON – LA VIE MODERNE

            Unseen Photo Fair – The Photographers’ Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2014    Sightings of the Sacred: Cattle in India, Uganda and Madagascar, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2013    Animal Farm, The Print Room, Photographer's Gallery, London, UK

2012    Animal Farm, Festival Artist, Aardklop Nasionale Kunstefees, Potchefstroom, South Africa

2011    Animal Farm, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2010    African Scenery & Animals, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024   INNER SANCTUM, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2024   Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2023   FNB Art Joburg, with Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2021   Spring Show, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

           Oasis: 25th anniversary exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

           In Conversation, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

            Director’s Selection, Everard Read, London, UK

2020    Youth-Hood, Life Framers Photography Award touring exhibition, New York, Tokyo, Paris, Milan and London

            Unseen – 35 Years of Collecting Photographs, J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

            Staring Straight to the Future, online exhibition, Everard Read, UK & South Africa

            Makay, a refuge in Malagasy land, Musée des Confluences, Lyons, France

            Still, online exhibition, Everard Read, UK & South Africa

            TINY2020, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

            ODYSSEY, Everard Read, UK & South Africa

            Imago, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

2018    Winter, Everard Read & CIRCA Gallery Cape Town, South Africa

2015    La vie moderne, Lyon Biennale, France

            In Focus: Animalia, J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

            Strange Worlds, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy

2014    Chroma, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

            Joseph Walsh, Johannes Nagel and Daniel Naudé, Artists House, New Art Centre, Wiltshire

            Apartheid and After, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2013    The Loom of the Land, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

2011    9th Bamako Encounters, Biennial of African Photography, Mali Lagos Photo Festival, Nigeria

            Neither Man Nor Stone, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2010    PEEKABOO: New South Africa, Tennis Palace, Helsinki Art Museum, Finland

            Breaking News: Contemporary photography from the Middle East and Africa, Ex Ospedale            

            Sant’Agostino, Modena, Italy

            Beauty in Africa in All of its States, African Union Summit, Addis Abba, Ethiopia

            After A, Photo Notes on South Africa, Atri Reportage Festival, Italy

2009    Summer 2008/9: Projects, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2008    University of Stellenbosch, Photokina, Köln, Germany

2007    Greatest Hits of 2007, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

RESIDENCIES

2011    Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado, USA

COLLECTIONS

Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy

Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA