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Montserrat College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. May 16, 2025 Paul Emmanuel receives Honorary Doctorate from Montserrat College of Art The framed Honorary Doctorate given at the ceremony A video recording of the commencement speech Paul Emmanuel delivers keynote address and receives Honorary Doctorate from Montserrat College of Art. The Zambia-born artist is currently a Fulbright Scholar and preparing for an exhibition of his work at The Smithsonian in Washington, DC. A display of his work was also shown at the college. Read more

Judkis, M., The Washington Post,  Washington D.C. USA, May, 2025. Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art was originally scheduled to coincide with the worldwide Pride celebration in Washington. The museum postponed it until next year, citing a funding shortfall. Untethered/Retethered (detail) 2025, Decommissioned, model T-10, US military personnel parachute with severed suspension lines, detached harness with risers, 550 paracord, High-definition video projection, stereo soundtrack. This work is featured in Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art , National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Winter – summer 2026. Read the original article on washingtonpost.com Connect to the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art website

New academic journal article by Associate Professor Irene Bronner, University of Johannesburg published in De Arte , Taylor and Francis. 17 November 2025. Figure 1: Paul Emmanuel. Installation view of The Lost Men France . 1 July 2014 to 1 October 2014, on privately owned land adjacent to the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. Photographed by Colleen Costick, 2014. Courtesy of Paul Emmanuel. Abstract This article examines South African artist Paul Emmanuel’s The Lost Men France (2014), part of his ongoing Lost Men project, as a critical intervention into dominant forms of memorialisation and public art. Installed adjacent to the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme in Picardy, France, Emmanuel’s ephemeral installation challenges the nationalist ideologies and racialised exclusions of conventional war memorials, such as the erasure of Black South African servicemen from First World War histories. Drawing on Mechtild Widrich’s concept of performative monuments and on James E. Young’s framing of the counter-monument, The Lost Men France is interpreted as a work of art that resists permanence, instead activating memory through vulnerability, absence, and embodied witnessing. This article argues that Emmanuel’s installation establishes a dialogical relationship with the Thiepval Memorial, both supplementing and unsettling its monumental authority. The installation foregrounds haunting and witnessing not as passive acts of remembrance, but as active, critical modes of engagement with the historical violence embedded in memorial forms. In doing so, it offers a reparative aesthetic grounded in fragility and contingency, proposing new forms of commemorative practice beyond the logic of state-sanctioned heroism. While #RhodesMustFall frames recent calls to decolonise public monuments, Emmanuel’s long-standing performative interventions demonstrate a prescient critique, even with their ambivalences, of how patriarchal and racialised structures shape what and who is remembered. Read and download the article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00043389.2025.2563405

Paul Emmanuel TRANSITIONS (2011) Rosenberg Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, USA Exhibition view of Transitions , Rosenberg Gallery, Brown Center, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, USA, 9 September – 2 October 2011 Transitions , Rosenberg Gallery, Brown Center, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 9 September – 2 October 2011 ‘Transitions’ documents shifting male identity. This was the 9th showing of this touring solo museum exhibition comprising an installation of 5 original drawings, courtesy of the Spier Contemporary Collection and the short film ‘3SAI: A Rite of Passage’ (2008). ‘Transitions’ premiered at The Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg South Africa in 2008 and debuted internationally at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA in 2010. Art Source South Africa are managers of Emmanuel's ‘Transitions’ project. Related Content Documentary How the ‘Transitions’ Drawings were Made, 2011, video 2 min 42 sec Artist’s talk Paul Emmanuel Talks to MICA (2011), Falvey Hall, Brown Centre, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, USA, (Video 34 min 43 sec) Radio interview Marc Steiner Chats to Paul Emmanuel, 2011, The Marc Steiner Show, WEAA 88.9 FM, Baltimore, USA, (Podcast 33 mins) Exhibition ‘Transitions Multiples’, Goya Contemporary Gallery, 2011 Film ‘3SAI: A Rite of Passage’, 2008

Paul Emmanuel THE LOST MEN FRANCE (2014) First World War Centenary, Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Picardy, France Installation views of The Lost Men France , WWI Centenary, Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Picardy, northern France, 1 July – 1 October 2014 The Lost Men France , World War One Centenary, Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Picardy, Northern France 1 July – 1 October 2014 ‘The Lost Men France’ was a once-only counter-memorial and an official feature of the 2014 – 2018 First World War Centenary. It was temporarily installed adjacent to the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Picardy, Northern France as an intervention in the Somme Circuit of Remembrance. In the battles that were fought on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, thousands of South African servicemen took part and died alongside the Allies but white and black South African men were valourised differently. ‘The Lost Men France’ depicted these names alongside those of the Allies and Germans. Supported by La Mission du Centenaire de la Première Guerre Mondiale, Paris, Institut Français Paris / Johannesburg and The National Arts Council of South Africa. Related Content Artist talk Institut Français and Tshwane University of Technology, 2012 Documentary ‘Remembering a Counter-Memorial: Making The Lost Men France’, 2014 Interview SABC TV Morning Live, Johannesburg, 2014 Counter-memorial ‘The Lost Men Mozambique’ 2007 Counter-memorial ‘The Lost Men Grahamstown’, 2004

Independent critical writings about the artworks and practice of Paul Emmanuel Irene Enslé Bronner Critical Commemorative Practices in The Lost Men France by Paul Emmanuel De Arte, 1–23. Taylor and Francis, November, 2025 Print ISSN: 0004-3389 Online ISSN: 2471-4100 Read more → Mark Auslander and students enrolled at American University Museums, Difficult Dialogues and Social Repair Transcript of an interview with Paul Emmanuel conducted by students in an undergraduate, anthropology course by Professor Mark Auslander at American University, Washington D.C., U.S.A., May, 2024 Read more → Paul Emmanuel Untethered: Exploring Intimacy and Estrangement in Military Culture and Civilian Society. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art, May, 2024 Read more → Irene Enslé Bronner Light on loss in new works by Paul Emmanuel. 'Image and Text' no 36, Taylor and Francis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, November, 2022 ISSN 2617-3255 Read more → Karen von Veh and Landi Raubenheimer Memorials, Landscape and White Masculinity: Dialogic Interventions in South African Art. 'Image and Text' no 36, Taylor and Francis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, November, 2022 ISSN 2617-3255 Read more → Mark Auslander Altered Carbon: Dramas of Detachment. Reflections on Paul Emmanuel's Substance of Shadows. 'Moving Cube', University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, September, 2021 Read more → Adelheid von Maltitz Art, Place, Death: The Transformative Power of Dynamic Thresholds. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, July, 2021 Document ID: 2002119739 Read more → Mark Auslander and Pamela Allara Platform Number 5: Paul Emmanuel. 'Art Beyond Quarantine', Online blog, Mark Auslander, June, 2020 Read more → Karen von Veh The Material of Mourning: Paul Emmanuel's Lost Men as Counter-memorials. 'Image and Text' no 34, Taylor and Francis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, December, 2020 ISSN 2617-3255 Read more → Ellen Schasttschneider, Mark Auslander and Pamela Allara Ex Unitate Vires: Paul Emmanuel. 'Art Beyond Quarantine', Online blog , Mark Auslander, April, 2020 Read more → Mark Auslander Veil 1954: Paul Emmanuel. 'Art Beyond Quarantine', Online blog , Mark Auslander, April, 2020 Read more → Pamela Allara Carbon dad 2017: Paul Emmanuel. 'Art Beyond Quarantine', Online blog , Mark Auslander, March, 2020 Read more → Pamela Allara and Mark Auslander Between Men and Monuments: The Art of Paul Emmanuel. 'Art Beyond Quarantine', Online blog , Mark Auslander, March, 2020 Read more → Pamela Allara Shrouds on the Somme's Body 'Paul Emmanuel', Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa, March, 2020 ISBN 978-0-620-87116-7 Karen von Veh Where Have All the Young Men Gone? 'Paul Emmanuel', Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa, March, 2020 ISBN 978-0-620-87116-7 Annette Becker Paul Emmanuel: The Lost Men France (2014) 'Paul Emmanuel', Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa, March, 2020 ISBN 978-0-620-87116-7 Karen Von Veh The Politics of Memory in South African Art. 'De Arte', UNISA Press, Pretoria, South Africa and Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, February, 2019 ISSN 0004-3389 Read more → Andrew Peter Swanepoel Repositioning the Problematic Gender Formation of a Generation of White South African Men Through Performance Art Dissertation submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts at The University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, August, 2018 Robyn Sassen Your Name, My Body. 'My View: The Arts at Large', Robyn Sassen, Johannesburg, South Africa, March, 2018 Read more → Johan Thom Impermanence: Paul Emmanuel. 'Paul Emmanuel: Impermanence', Fried Contemporary Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa, March, 2018 Read more → Matthijs Sluiter The Lost Men Project. 'Fonts in Use', Fonts in Use LLC, Oakland, California, USA, 2018 Read more → Paul van Capelleveen Paul Emmanuel, The Lost Men Project. 'Reading is Touching in The Art of Reading', Museum Meermanno, The Hague, The Netherlands, November, 2017 Read more → Pamela Allara Paul Emmanuel: The Counter-memorial in the Age of Permanent War. 'Aesthetic Justice', College Art Association Conference, New York, USA, February, 2017 Read more → Pamela Allara Shrouds on the Somme: Paul Emmanuel's World War I Counter-Memorial. 'Paul Emmanuel: Remnants', Boston University Art Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, January, 2016 Read more → Pamela Allara Mechanized Bodies: From the Armored Body to Technological Vision. 'Permanent War: The Age of Global Conflict', School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, January, 2015 Read more → Clare Humphries Material Remains: The Afterlife of Personal Objects. An project submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, pp 228 – 231, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, October, 2014 Read more → Annette Becker À guerre mondiale, art mondial. 'Voir La Grande Guerre – Un Autre Récit', Armand Colin, Paris, France, October, 2014 ISBN 978-2-200-28757-3 Read more → Dominic Thorburn Borderline – Sweeping a Mind Field. ‘Borders & Crossings’ IMPACT 8 International Printmaking Conference, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK, August, 2013 Read more → Irene Enslé Bronner The 'person without the person' in the early work of Paul Emmanuel. 'De Arte', UNISA Press, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. Volume 85, 2012, pp 42-58. ISSN 0004-3389 Read more → Pamela Allara Diane Victor and Paul Emmanuel: Lost Men Lost Wor(l)ds. 'Gender and South African Art' in 'African Arts', MIT Press Journals, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Volume 45, No. 4, October 2012, pp 34-45. ISSN 0001-9933 Read more → Pamela Allara Paul Emmanuel’s Transitions: The White South African Male in Process. 'NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art', Duke University Press, North Carolina, USA. Issue 28, November, 2011, pp 58-66. ISSN: 1075-7163 Read more → Michael Smith FNB Joburg Art Fair Featured Artist Paul Emmanuel. 'ArtThrob', ArtThrob, Cape Town, South Africa, 2011 Read more → Irene Enslé Bronner Initimate Masculinities in the Work of Paul Emmanuel. A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Arts of Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa, 2011 Document ID: 2108 Read more → Robyn Sassen Under Covers: South Africa’s Apartheid Army – an Incubator for Artists’ Books. 'The Blue Note Book: Journal for Artists' Books', CFPR, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, Volume 3, Number 1, October, 2008. ISSN 1751-1712 (print) 1751-1720 (online) Read more → André Croucamp Conversations on the Transience of Light. 'Transitions', Art Source South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2008 ISBN 978-0-620-41945-1 Read more → Aryan Kaganof Interview with Paul Emmanuel. 'Kagablog', Online blog, Aryan Kaganof, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2008 Read more → Robyn Sassen Of Circumcising and Circumscribing and Understanding Where I Fit In. 'Transitions', Art Source South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2008 ISBN 978-0-620-41945-1 Read more → David Paton The Sound of a Book: Sound as Generator of Narrative in the Reception of Selected New Media Objects as Books. 'Image & Text', No. 13, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 2007 ISSN 1020 1497 Read more → Robyn Sassen Attention Seeking Images. 'IMPACT International Printmaking Conference', Tallinn, Estonia, 2006 Read more → David Paton Interview with Paul Emmanuel. 'Navigating the Bookscape: Artists’ Books and the Digital Interface', David Paton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2006 ISBN 0-620-37094-7 Read more → Robyn Sassen Navigating the Bookscape: Artists’ Books and the Digital Interface. 'Navigating the Bookscape: Artists’ Books and the Digital Interface', David Paton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2006 ISBN 0-620-37094-7 Read more → Julia Charlton Drawing out of the Darkness: Contemplating after-image. 'After-image', Paul Emmanuel, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2004 ISBN 0-620-32295-0 Read more → Lisa Cohn The Lost Men. 'ITCH', Volume 1 Issue 1, Bell Roberts Publishing, Cape Town, South Africa, 2003 ISBN 0-6203-1894-5 Read more →