Biographie

*1974 in Pretoria, lives and works in Cape Town
1995 Judges' prize, Sasol New Signatures Competition
1996 BA (Visual Art), University of Pretoria
1996 Volkskas Atelier Merit Award, Emil Schweickerdt Award for Most Promising Art Student, University of Pretoria
1998 First Prize, Kempton Park/ Tembisa Art Competition
2001 Kanna Prize for Visual Art, Best Artwork or Exhibition, Klein Karoo National Arts festival, Oudtshoorn
2002 Ampersand Foundation Fellowship for two-month residency, New York City and Washington DC
2003 Tollman Award, joint winner (with Churchill Madikida)
2005 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for 2005
2010 Nedcor Sculpture Commission, Nedbank headquarters, Johannesburg

Exhibitions (selection)

2015
Thinking, Feeling, Head, Heart at The New Church Museum, Cape Town (S)
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, next at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC (G)
2014
Chroma, Stevenson, Cape Town (G)
The Epic Mundane, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa
Artists engaged? Maybe., Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal (G)
LINEAR PERSPECTIVES, Stevenson, Cape Town (S)
2013
Predicates, Kunstraum Innsbruck (S)
Predicates, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (S)
Imaginary Fact, South African Pavillion, 55th Biennale di Venezia (G)
Wordfees Festival, Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch ZA (G)
The Loom of the Land, Stevenson, Johannesburg (G)
2012
The Rainbow Nation, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague (G)
Coming of Age: 21 Years of the Artist Proof Studio, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
2011
What we talk about when we talk about love, Stevenson, Cape Town (G)
conrad botes, Turner Galleries, Northbridge, Australia (G)
Göteborg International Biennal for Contemporary Art, Göteborg (G)
Alptraum, touring exhibition: Washington, Berlin, Los Angeles, Kapstadt (G)
All Around, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (S)
Wim Botha, Galerie Jette Rudolph zu Gast, Frühjahrsrundgang, Spinnerei Leipzig (S)
All this, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town (S)
2010
PEEKABOO – Current South Africa at Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (G)
11. Triennale für Kleinplastik, Fellbach (G)
The Last Kingdom, project & presentation, Berlin (G)
Nedcor Sculpture Commission, Sandton, Johannesburg (G)
2009
Joburg Altarpiece & Amazing Things from Other Places, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town (S)
Self/Not-self, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (G)
2008
Soloshow, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (S)
Solo-Presentation, Freestyle - Art Froum Berlin, Galerie Jette Rudolph (S)
Soloshow, Art Extra Johannesburg (S)
2007
Politische Ikonographie, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (G)
Impossible Monsters, Art Extra, Johannesburg (G)
Africa Remix, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
Apocalagnosia, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town (S)
Family Relation, Warren Siebrits Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
2006
Olvida Quien Soy - Erase me from who I am, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, LasPalmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (G)
Cold Fusion: gods, heroes and martyrs, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town (S)
2005
A Premonition of War, Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2005 exhibition.National Arts Festival, Grahamstown; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth; Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg; Durban Art Gallery, Durban; Oliewenhuis Art Gallery, Bloemfontein; South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg (S)
Dak’Art, 7th Dakar Biennale, Senegal (G)
2004
Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Hayward Gallery, London, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Johannesburg Art Gallery (touring through 2006) (G)
Personal Affects: Power and poetics in contemporary South African art, Museum for African Art and Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York (traveling to Contemporary Museum, Honolulu) (G)
2003
Contact Zones, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town (G)
2002
Sasol Public Sculpture Commission, exhibition of maquettes, Klein Karoo National (G)
Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn (G)
Grime, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town (G)
2001
Speculum, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town (S)
commune: onomatopoeia, Festival Artist Exhibition, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn (P)
Clean, Millennium Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
1999
Transmigrations, Civic Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
Transmigrations: Rituals and Items, Artshare Warehouse, Los Angeles USA, Tijuana Cultural Centre, Tijuana, Mexico (G)
Renaicide/Mortenaissance, Millennium Gallery of Contemporary Art, Pretoria (G)
The Paper Show, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
New Signatures Revisited, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn (G)

Untitled (Witness Series 24), 2014
carved encyclopedia, steel

Untitled (Witness Series 25), 2014
carved encyclopedia, steel

A Thousand Things part 179, 2014
Indian ink on Paper

A Thousand Things part 181, 2014
Indian ink on Paper

Untitled (Witness Series 26), 2014
carved encyclopedia, steel

Untitled (Bywoner), 2013
carved encyclopedia, steel, 72 x 65 x 32 cm, height incl. pedestal 176 cm

Clouds I, 2013
oil on wood panel, 27 x 33 cm

Gravity Machine, 2013
wood, fluorescent light equipment, 350 x 195 cm variable in height

Study for composite self-portrai8t, 2013
carved books (Statutes), 89 x 25 x 29 cm

Thousand Things part 47, 2013
treated pine, acrylic enamel paint, ca. 55 x 40 x 30 cm

Thousand Things part 48, 2013
treated pine, acrylic enamel paint, ca. 55 x 40 x 30 cm

Thousand Things part 49, 2013
treated pine, acrylic enamel paint, ca. 55 x 40 x 30 cm

Thousand Things part 50, 2013
treated pine, acrylic enamel paint, ca. 55 x 40 x 30 cm

Thousand Things part 51, 2013
treated pine, acrylic enamel paint, ca. 55 x 40 x 30 cm

Solipsis VI, 2013
wood, polysterene, fluorescent light equipment, dimensions variable

Prism V, 2013
bronze, stainless steel, wooden pedestal

A Thousand Things part 46, 2013
treated pine, acrylic enamel paint, 70 x 50 x 46 cm, hight incl. pedestal 174 cm

A Thousand Things part 81, 2013
Indian Ink on paper

A Thousand Things part 72, 2013
Indian Ink on paper

Untitled (Bywoner), 2013
carved vintage medical textbooks, steel, 94 x 36 x 26 cm

ALL AROUND, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin 2011 (installationview)

Solipsis 2, 2011 (installationview)
Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin

Solipsis I, 2011 (detail)
Polystyrol, Holz, Neon, Dimensions variable

Portrait Bust (Daughter), 2010
carved Afrikaans bibles, 56 x 53 x 38 cm

Joburg Altarpiece, 2009 (installationview)
397 x 527cm, Ed. of 3

Amazing things from other Places, 2009 (installationview)
Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town

Amazing things from other Places, 2009 (detail)

Untitled (after Rubens), 2009
Linoprint on tea-stained Hahnemühle paper
150 x 185cm (unframed), Edition of 12

Untitled (after Bernini), 2009

Generic Self-portrait as an Heretic, 2008 (detail)

Vanitas Toilette, 2008 (installationview)
Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin

Chorus, 2008 (installationview)
Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin

Rorschach (after Velazquez), 2007
Linolprint on tea-stained Hahnemühle paper

Time Maschine, 2008 (installationview)
Stevenson, Johannesburg

Double God Vitrine, 2007 (installationview)

Phyllocrania Paradoxa (Gottesanbeterin), 2006

Calamity, 2006

Memento Mori, 2005
artificial marble, imbuia, neon
size variable

Untitled, 2003