CURRICULUM VITAE




EDUCATION:

 

2001: Receive a Matriculation Exemption from Westerford High School.

2005: Receive a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town

2008:  Receive a Masters of Fine Arts at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town

 

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS:

 

  • 2003: Receive the Class Medal for Discourse of Art II
  • 2004: Receive the Class Medal for Theory and Practice of Art III
  • On the Deans Merit List
  • 2005: On the Deans Merit List

 

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

  • Last Quarter 2004: Intern for arts journal, Art South Africa,  edited by Sean O’Toole
  • July 2005 – 2007: International Listings Editor for electronic journal, ArtThrob, edited by Sue Williamson
  • September 2005 - July 2006: Cape Town Editor for ArtThrob
  • December 2005 till February 2006:  Assist Zayd Minty in the organisation of the first Visual Arts Network South Africa (VANSA) national conference, Transformation/Growth/Opportunity in the Visual Arts Sector
  • 2006: Tutor for Discourse of Art I and Discourse of Art II at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts
  • Lecture in Discourse of Art II at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts
  • 2007: Tutor for Discourse of Art I, II and III at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts
  • Lecture in Discourse of Art II and III at the University Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts
  • Curator at the UCT Centre For African Studies Gallery
  • 2008: Tutor for Discourse of Art II and Discourse of Art III at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts.
  •  Lecture Discourse of Art III at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts
  • Correspondent and reviewer for the Daily ArtHeat at the Johannesburg Art Fair
  • 2009: Lecture Weekly in Photographic Theory at City Varsity
  • Editor, writer and reviewer for the Daily ArtHeat at the Johannesburg Art Fair
  • Image and Copyright Co-ordinator and Acting Media Officer for Iziko Museums Cape Town
  • 2010: Lecture Third Years in the Arts History Department at Rhodes University  (four week course)
  • Lecture in Discourse of Art I and II at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts
  • Tutor Discourse of Art I and II at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts
  • Tutor The New Millennium in Historical Perspective, History Department at the University of Cape Town.
  • Editor, writer and reviewer for the Daily ArtHeat at the Johannesburg Art Fair
  • Course Convene Introduction to Contemporary Art and Visual Cultural, History Department, University of Cape Town

 

PROGRAMS:

  • 2007: Conceive of, plan and facilitate a yearlong series of Young Curators Workshops at the UCT Centre For African Studies
  • 2009: Launch the Mixtape Public Arts Project, in collaboration with the Grahamstown National Arts Festival

 

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PROJECTS:

 

  • September 2005: Assist with the running of art workshops at the 2005 Living Landscapes project in Clanwilliam
  • 2008:  Work with NuBuntu on organising an art auction in aid of MyLiFE, a section 21 Company that works with street children in Cape Town
  • 2010: Mixtape launches the Sakhalunthu Art Factory collaboration, which works directly with children from Grahamstown’s ‘locations’, providing them with access to the National Arts Festival and to year-round interaction with contemporary arts and cultural production

 

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

 

  • 2005: Serve as the chairperson of the Michaelis School of Fine Arts’ Student Representative Council
  • 2005 – 2007:  Serve on the Western Cape governing committee of VANSA (Visual Arts Network South Africa)

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

  • February 2007:  Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me at blank projects space
  • December 2009: Who’s Abject Now Bitch? or crime scene consistent with a particular double homicide at YOUNGBLACKMAN

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

 

* indicates a catalogue

 

  • 2003: YDEsire at the Castle of Good Hope. Curated by James Webb and Kim Stern
  • 2005: Printtt at the AVA. Curated by Andrew Lamprecht
  • The Black and White Poster Project at Dirt Contemporary.  Curated by Rory Palmer, Bevan Anderson and Jen-Henri Booyens *
  • Absolute Secret at the AVA
  • 2006: Month of People’s Photography (MOPP)
  • ABSA Le’ Atalier finalist exhibition *
  • Portrait Exhibition at the AVA.
  • 2007: Come at the Michaelis Gallery and the KZNSA 
  • 2008:  Fresh Meat at Whatiftheworld/Gallery. Curated by Robert Sloon. *
  • Come Again at the Michaelis Gallery and the Wits Granary *
  • Readymade at iKizo Gallery. Curated by Bettina Malcomess
  • Big Wednesday at Whatiftheworld/Gallery
  • 2009: Voight-Kampff at the UCA Gallery. Curated by Catherine Ocholla.
  • 2010: Swallow My Pride at blank projects space. Curated by Margaret Stone.
  • Inverting the Pyramid at blank projects space.
  • Big Hole at the Kimberly Hotel.

 

WITH DOING IT FOR DADDY (Renee Holleman and Bettina Malcomess)

  • 2006: The Cape Town Biennale at blank projects. Curated by Andrew Lamprecht
  • X Cape. An intervention outside of the South African National Gallery
  • 2007: CCC at the AVA
  • Spier Contemporary at the Spier Estate, Johannesburg Art Gallery and Durban Art Gallery (2008). Curated by Clive van den Berg and Jay Pather*
  • 2008: Prints and Editions 08 at Whatiftheworld/Gallery
  • 2009: Nation State at Goodman Gallery and Goodman Gallery Cape* 
  • 2010: Localities: Fact and Fiction at the Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark. Curated by N’Gone Fall & Sanne Kodof Olsen. *

AWARDS:

  • 2006: Final selection for the ABSA Le ‘Atalier
  • 2007:With Doing it For Daddy:  Winners at the Spier Contemporary Art Awards

 

CURATORSHIP:

  • 2007: FINDING UCT: Narratives, New and Old in the UCT Permanent Collection at the UCT Centre for African Studies Gallery (with Clare Butcher)

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

 

  • Gamaker, E, 2006, Birds of Paradise and Also-Rans: The Michaelis Graduate Exhibition 2005. ArtThrob January 2006.
    (http://www.artthrob.co.za/06jan/reviews/michaelis.html)
  • Robert Sloon, 2007. Strange Bedfellows. 3C at AVA. ArtHeat Friday, August 03, 2007.  (http://artheat.blogspot.com/2007/08/strange-bedfellows-3c-at-ava.html#links)
  • Young, E, 2007. Review: 3C. Art South Africa V6.2 November 2007.
  • Robert Sloon, 2007. Untitled Post. ArtHeat Friday, September 21, 2007. (http://artheat.blogspot.com/2007/09/it-seems-seldom-these-days-to-see-art.html)
  • Tietze, A, 2007, Finding UCT: Narratives New and Old in the UCT Permanent Collection' at the UCT Centre for African Studies. ArtThrob November 2007. (http://www.artthrob.co.za/07nov/reviews/uct.html)
  • McIntosh, T, 2008. Spier Contemporary Art Awards. ArtThrob January 2008. (http://www.artthrob.co.za/08jan/reviews/spier.html)
  • Sean O’ Toole, Mix of Daring and Promise. Financial Mail 15 February 2008      
  • Sean O’ Toole (editor), 2008. Bright Young Things: Daddy’s Girls.  Art South Africa V6.3 March 2008.
  • Suzy Bell, 2010. Artist Makes Mark in Blood at City Gallery. Cape Times. 5 January 2010.

SELECTED PUBLISHED ARTICLES:

ARTICLES/REVIEWS:

 

 

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