Patrick Waterhouse was born in 1981 in Bath, United Kingdom. He graduated with a BA from the Camberwell College of Art in 2003. Since then he has produced a variety of work in many different media including drawings, prints, photographs, and artist’s books. His work spans photography, drawing, slow journalism, graphic design, sculpture and many other disciplines. His practice involves in-depth research, often working in communities and collaborating with other artists, researchers and writers. In 2008 He started collaborating with South African artist Mikhael Subotzky on Ponte City. Waterhouse is working between South Africa and Italy where he is also editor-in-chief of Colors magazine.

Publications

2007 - "L’Inferno di Dante Luna Storia Naturale" Mondadori, Italy
2014 - "Ponte City" Steidl, Germany

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009 - Two Projects, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2010 - Recent Works: Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 - L’Inferno di Dante. Una storia naturale, Castello Angioino di Gaeta, Italy
2014 - Ponte City, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
2014 - Ponte City, FotoMuseum Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Netherlands
2014 - Ponte City, Le Bal, Paris, France

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Selected Group Exhibitions

2009 - Us, South African National Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery and Goodman Gallery Projects, Johannesburg, South Africa
2011 - Fotográfica Bogotá, Colombia
2011 - Highrise – Idea and Reality, The Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland
2011 - Arles Discovery Award Exhibition, Arles, France
2013 - Rencontres Picha Biennale de Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo
2013 - My Jo’burg, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2014 - Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2015 - Deutsche Börse: Photography Prize 2015, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2015 - Africa: Architecture, Culture and Identity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 - After Eden: Photography from the Walther Collection, La Maison
Rouge, Paris, France

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Awards

2008 - Goethe Institute Grant, Johannesburg, South Africa
2011 - Discovery Award at Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
2014 - Goethe Institute Grant, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015 - Deutsche Borse Photography Prize for Ponte City, Germany

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