Selected Biography

2016
Berth
Gallery 196
Cape Town
South Africa

2014
KKNK
Oudtshoorn
South Africa

2012
Ground
Commune 1 Gallery
Cape Town
South Africa

2010
Hearts and Minds
Hall Street Gallery
Savannah
USA

2009
Intimate Distance
South African National Gallery
Cape Town
South Africa

2008
Matter
Gallery Area 405
Baltimore
USA

2005
Drawn
Bell-Roberts Gallery
Cape Town
South Africa

2004
Vooruit Festival
Bind performance
Ghent
Belgium

2004
Aqui/Alla
Here/There
Centro Colombo Americano
Medellin
Colombia

2002
Dogs
Gallery Blue
Washington DC
USA

Extended Biography:

2010 hearts and minds
curated: Thomas Dry Barry Hall Street Gallery, 212 W. Hall St.Savannah USA

2010 Own Goal
AVA Gallery Cape Town South Africa

2009 Resolution-the power of innuendo
Curated show AVA Gallery
Cape Town ZA 

            Intimate Distance Curated show South African national Gallery
            Cape Town ZA

Social Pattern
Curated show AVA Gallery
Cape Town ZA
Baring
Curated show AVA Gallery
Cape Town ZA 

            In Black and White Curated show Bell-Roberts Gallery
            Cape Town ZA

2008 Matter
2 person show
Gallery Area 405
Baltimore USA

2008 Baring
Curated group show AVA Gallery
Cape Town ZA

2007 Drawn
Solo Show Bell-Roberts Gallery
Cape Town ZA

2006 Second to none
curated show at South African National Gallery
Cape Town ZA
Curators: Virginia MacKenny and Gabi Ngobo

2005 KO Video Festival
Durban ZA 

            B(l)ind

Solo Show Bell-Roberts Gallery
Cape Town ZA

KKNK
Group curated show

2004 Pale
Installation NSA Gallery Durban ZA 

            Aqui/Alla
            Residency exhibition (3 person)

CCA, Medellin, Colombia, South America

Bind
Performance, Vooruit, Gent, Belgium

B(l)ind
Solo show Franchise Gallery
Johannesburg ZA

2003 Embedded
Site-specific installation
Suburban garden Durban ZA

2002 Dogs
Video Installation
Gallery Blue Washington DC
USA

2002 PULSE project
Silence/Violence
Nieu Bethesda Cape ZA KZNSA Gallery Durban ZA

2002 Outpost II
Stellenbosch University Gallery
ZA






2002 Untold Tales of magic: abelumbi exhibition
ZA National travelling show

2001 berth(A)
performance piece
Durban Harbour entrance pier ZA

2001 Jabulisa
ZA National travelling show of contemporary Natal Art 

            Storyboard
            NSA Gallery
            Durban ZA

2000 Outpost
Pretoria AVA Gallery
Gauteng ZA

2000 Rolling
Performance piece
Red Eye @rt
Durban Art Gallery
Durban
ZA

1999 Ex-posed
Market Theatre
Johannesburg
ZA

1998 New Delhi Triennial
New Delhi India

2007-present External Examiner for AAA School of Advertising Cape Town
2008 Judge for Timo Smuts Award Stellenbosch University
2000-2004 KwaZulu Natal provincial selector for a number of national competitions

PUBLICATIONS:

2008 Art Times

2007 Art South Africa website

2005 Art South Africa
www.artthrob.co.za

2003/4 Art South Africa
www.artthrob.co.za

2001 Agenda
Issue no.49 2001
pg15
“Post- apartheid performance art as a site of gender resistance”
Virginia MacKenny 

            .

2001 Black Cat Fever: Manifestations of Manet’s Olympia
Theatre Journal - Volume 53, Number 1, March 2001, pp. 95-118
Brody, Jennifer DeVere
The Johns Hopkins University Press
2001 Introduction: Re-Situating Culture in the Body Politic
Lliane Loots
Agenda, No. 49, Culture: Transgressing Boundaries (2001), pp. 9-14
Published by: Agenda Feminist Media
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4066487

2001 Zebra
Register of South African Artists 2001
Derrick Dissel Publisher

1999 Wash Magazine Publication. Chalkham Hill Press
Johannesburg SA 

            www.artthrob.co.za

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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
The South African National Gallery ZA 

            Private Collections ZA

            Durban Art Gallery  ZA 

            Gencor Collection   ZA

            Technikon Natal Gallery ZA

RESIDENCIES/PROJECTS:

Jan – Feb 2006 Cascoland South Africa
Site –specific installation in a local township on outskirts of Cape Town with Dutch Project Cascoland. The project is socially based creating temporary living environments out of alternative materials.

2004 UNESCO Residency, Colombia South America
Residency, Vooruit, Gent, Belgium

1999 International cultural exchange Royal Danish Academy, Denmark.