Ernest Cole

South African | 1940 - 1990

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025

Ernest Cole: House of Bondage: Vintage works from the Ernest Cole Family Trust - Part 3 ,Goodman Gallery, Cape Town ,Cape Town, South Africa
The True America: Photographs by Ernest Cole ,Minneapolis Institute of Art ,Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
House of Bondage: Vintage Prints from the Ernest Cole Family Trust - Part II ,Magnum Paris ,11e, Paris, France

2024

Ernest Cole: House of Bondage: Vintage works from the Ernest Cole Family Trust Part One ,Goodman Gallery, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
Ernest Cole: House Of Bondage ,The Photographers' Gallery ,London, UK
Ernest Cole: A Lens in Exile ,Autograph ABP ,Shoreditch, London, UK

2023

Ernest Cole: House Of Bondage ,Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation ,Eschborn, Germany

2015

Ernest Cole ,Moderna Museet, Stockholm ,Stockholm, Sweden

2014

Ernest Cole: Photographer ,Grey Art Museum ,New York, USA

2013

Ernest Cole Photographer ,Fowler Museum at UCLA ,Los Angeles, California, USA

2011

Ernest Cole, Photographer ,South African National Gallery, Iziko Museums ,Cape Town, South Africa

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

2023

2022

2020

2014

Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa ,Yerba Buena Center for the Arts ,San Francisco, California, USA

2012

Ernest Cole was a South African artist who was born in 1940. Their work is currently being shown at Minneapolis Institute of Art. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Magnum Paris have featured Ernest Cole's work in the past.Ernest Cole's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 3,274 USD to 31,641 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2020 the record price for this artist at auction is 31,641 USD for Twelve works: The House of Bondage, sold at Aspire Art Auctions, Johannesburg in 2020. Ernest Cole has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for The Guardian in February 2025. The artist died in 1990.

Artist's alternative names: Ernest Levi Tsoloane Cole

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Ernest Cole

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

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