Rhode was born in 1976 in Cape Town, and lives in Berlin. Major museum solo exhibitions have taken place at Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, the Netherlands (2021); Kunsthalle Krems, Austria in 2020; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in 2019; Museum Haus Konstruktiv in 2018; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel in 2017; S.M.A.K Gent, Belgium and Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm, in 2015; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland in 2014; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, in 2013; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus in 2009; Hayward Gallery, London in 2008; Haus der Kunst, Munich in 2007; and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Massachusetts in 2004.

Notable group exhibitions include Currents, Lehmann Maupin, Palm Beach, USA (2023); FIRE IN MY BELLY, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (2021); Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Perez Museum, Miami, USA (2020); Come Out!, Kristefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway (2020); Crossing Night: Regional Identities X Global Context, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2019);The Street: Where The World Is Made at MAXXI, Rome (2018); Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2017); The White Hunter. African Memories and Representations at  FM Centre for Contemporary Art, Milan (2017); Shifting Views: People & Politics in Contemporary African Art, at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland (2016); the Foto Focus Biennial in Cincinnati and the 10th Busan Biennial (2016); What remains is tomorrow, the South African Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015); Performa.15, New York (2015); the 12th Havana Biennial, Between the Idea and Experience; Passo a due (Step Two): The Avant-gardes of Motion, Museo MAN, Sardinia, Italy (2014); More Light, Moscow Biennale (2013); the 18th Sydney Biennale, All Our Relations  (2012); Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960,  Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011); The Dissolve,  8th Site Santa Fe Biennale, New Mexico (2010); Prospect.1 New Orleans,  1st New Orleans Biennial (2008); New Photography,  Museum of Modern Art, New York (2005); the 51st Venice Biennale (2005); and How Latitudes Become Forms, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and other venues (2003-5). 

Rhode is the recipient of the 2018 Zurich Art Prize.

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