1962
Lives and works in Porto Novo (Republic of Benin)

SOLO SHOWS

2009
Made in Porto-Novo, October Gallery, London, UK
Exit Ball, aliceday, Brussels, Belgium
La Bouche du Roi, The Herbert Museum and Art Gallery, Coventry, UK

2008/09
La Bouche du Roi, Horniman Museum, London

2007
La Bouche du Roi, British Museum, London, touring to Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, Merseyside Maritime Museum, National Museums Liverpool, Liverpool, Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, Laing Art Gallery, Tyne & Wear Museums, Newcastle
Romuald Hazoumé, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland

2006
Romuald Hazoumé: La Bouche du Roi, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France

2005
Romuald Hazoumé, Fondation Zinsou, Cotonou, Republic of Benin
Romuald Hazoumé: La Bouche du Roi, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
ARTicle 14 - débrouille-toi, toi- même!, October Gallery, London, UK, touring to the World Museum, Liverpool, UK (2006)

2002
Romuald Hazoumé: La Bouche du Roi, The Menil Collection, Houston,Texas, USA
Romuald Hazoumé, Centre Culturel Français, Turin, Italy

2001
Romuald Hazoumé, Galerie Olivier Houg, Lyon, France

1999
Romuald Hazoumé: La Bouche du Roi, Centre Culturel Français, Cotonou, Republic of Benin
Romuald Hazoumé, Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
Romuald Hazoumé, Galerie Gut Gasteil, Prigglitz, Austria
Romuald Hazoumé: Vor-Sicht, Dany Keller Galerie, Munich; travelled to
Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany; and The Project, New
York, USA

1997
Romuald Hazoumé, Galerie 20 x 2, Arnheim, Netherlands

1996
Romuald Hazoumé, Gelbe Musik Galerie, Berlin, travelled to Dany Keller Galerie, Munich and Firma Harlekin Art, Wiesbaden, Germany

GROUP SHOWS

2009
3rd Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art: Against Exclusion,
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
Africa Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
PERSONA, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Brussels, Belgium “Who’s betting on the 47?” NKV Nassauischer Kunstverein,
Wiesbaden, Germany
Art Dubai with October Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Joburg Art Fair with October Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2008
U-TURN, Quadriennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Angaza Afrika – African Art Now, October Gallery, London
Art Dubai with October Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Joburg Art Fair with October Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2007
documenta 12, Kassel, Germany Prix Arnold Bode
UN/FAIR TRADE, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
Uncomfortable Truths – the shadow of slave trading on contemporary art & design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; touring to Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, and Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK
From Courage to Freedom, October Gallery, London, UK

2006/07
100% Africa, Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain

2006
De ida y vuelta. África, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Snap Judgements: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA. - Miami Art Central, Florida, USA touring to Mexico, Canada and Europe

2005/06
African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection,National
Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA

2005
Arts of Africa, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

2004/06
Africa Remix, museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf, Germany; Hayward
Gallery, London, UK; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

2003
Armour: The Fortification of Man, Biennale de Fort Asperen, Netherlands
Magic Markers: Objects of Transformation, Des Moines Art Center,Iowa;
travelled to Musée Bellerive, Zurich; and Musée d’Art de Lausanne,
Switzerland

2002
African Market, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia
40Jahre: Fluxus und die Folgen, Kunstsommer Wiesbaden, Germany

2001
TRADE, Nederlands Fotos Institut, Rotterdam & Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
XXXV Prix International D’Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo, Salle des Arts, Monte Carlo, Monaco Œil pour œil, Le Rectangle Centre d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

2000
Lyon Biennal, Lyon, France.
Sieben Hügel, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Romuald Hazoumé, Paul Pfeiffer, Duke University Museum of Art Durham, North Carolina, USA
Partage d’exotismes: 5e Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
Man + Space, Kwangju Biennale, Korea
Dinge in der Kunst des XX Jahrhunderts, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Construction in Process VII: This Earth Is a Flower, The International Artists
Museum, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Art Basel 2000, Galerie Art & Public, Basel, Switzerland

1999
Spaceship Earth, Art in General, New York, USA
Paradise 8, Exit Art, New York, USA
Liverpool Biennal: International Festival of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK

1992
Out of Africa: Contemporary African Artists from the Pigozzi Collection,
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

AWARDS & PRIZES

2009
Prize of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2007
Arnold Bode Prize, documenta 12, Kassel, Germany

1996
George Maciunas Prize, Wiesbaden, Germany

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009
Romuald Hazoumé, Made in Porto Novo, published by October Gallery, London
3rd Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art: Against Exclusion. Moscow, Russia. Exhibition catalogue

2008
Angaza Afrika- African Art Now (Chris Spring). Published by Laurence King Publishing Ltd., London, UK. pp.124-131

2007
UN/FAIR TRADE Die Kunst der Gerechtigkeit. Exhibition catalogue. Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria. pp. 250,251
Romuald Hazoumé: An Intinerant Artist (interview with John Picton). Freedom and Culture, published by Moving Worlds, University of Leeds, Leeds UK.
documenta12. Exhibition Catalogue. Kassel, Germany. pp. 142,143

2006
Romuald Hazoumé: La Bouche du Roi, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France. Exhibition catalogue. Published by Flammarion
100% Africa (André Magnin), Exhibition catalogue. Published by TF Editores & FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao Museum
Romuald Hazoumé. Exhibition catalogue. Published by Fondation Zinsou, Cotonou, Benin

2005
Romuald Hazoumé. Exhibition catalogue. Published by Fondation Zinsou, Cotonou, Benin
La Bouche du Roi. Exhibition catalogue. Published by the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA
African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Edited by André Magnin. Published by Merrell

2004
Africa Remix. Exhibition Catalogue.

1999
Romuald Hazoumé " Vor-Sicht " by Peter Volkwein. Exhibition catalogue, Städtische, Galerie Ingolstadt. Bilingual text: German, French

1998
7. Triennale der Kleinplastik: Zeitgenössische Skulptur. Europa Afrika. Exhibition Catalogue : Romuald Hazoumé by André Magnin. Text in German
Benin- Benin, Tussen Gisteren Morgen . Romuald Hazoumé by Frits Bless.
Exhibition catalogue, Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn. Text in Dutch

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Barbier Muller Collection, Geneva, Switzerland
Collection agnès b., Paris, France
Collection David Bowie
Jean Pigozzi collection, Geneva, Switzerland
La Fondation Zinzou, Cotonou, Republic of Benin
Museumlandschaft Hessen, Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany
The Birtish Museum, London, UK