ROBIN RHODE (b. 1976, Capetown, South Africa) lives and works in Berlin.
Robin Rhode draws on the cultural codes of hip hop, popular sports, film, and fashion to render the everyday as art. A self-proclaimed "revolutionary contemporary artist," his strategic interventions in galleries and public spaces explore issues of culture, identity, history, and the socioeconomic realities of South Africa. Rhode's visual and conceptual alphabet is built around concepts of desire, loss, and dislocation in a capitalist world, while also acknowledging the specific indignities of growing up black in a South Africa still governed by apartheid.
Rhode has been included in several major exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2005); the Taipei Biennial (2006); and the touring exhibition, Street Level with Mark Bradford and William Cordova. He recently had his first major solo exhibition in Europe at the Haus del Kunst, Munich. Among his upcoming exhibitions are a retrospective at the Hayward Gallery, London, and the Johannesburg Art Fair and Biennial of Sydney.
Rhode is represented by Perry Rubenstein in New York.