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Solo Exhibitions

2017

Virtual Frontiers, National Arts Festival (Grahamstown), RSA

2016

The Great Circle, Nafasi Artspace (Dar es Salaam), Tanzania

2015   

Cape Mongo, National Arts Festival (Grahamstown), RSA

 

Group Exhibitions

2018

Tell Freedom. 16 South African artists, Curated by Manon Braat and Nkule Mabaso, Kunsthal KAdE (Amersfoort), Netherlands

Cape to Tehran: Re-imaging and re-imagining personal history in post-Apartheid South Africa and post-revolutionary Iran. Curated by Sepideh Mehraban, Gallery MOMO (Cape Town), RSA

2017

The Big Hole Counter Narrative Project, Goethe Institut Project Space, Sol Plaatje University (Kimberley) RSA

Be Kind. Rewind, Gallery MOMO (Cape Town), RSA

Dress Code, Gallery MOMO (Cape Town), RSA

Puncture Points, Curated by Khanyisile Mbongwa (Cape Town), South Africa

Bright Young Things: Art Africa Fair, Curated by Salimata Diop, V&A Waterfront (Cape Town), South Africa

Syngenta Photo Awards Exhibition, Somerset House (London), England
A Secret Rancour – Notions of Resentment, Museum of Contemporary Art, (Rothenberg), Belgium

2016

Ontbloem – Performance Art, Vrystaat Arts Festival, RSA

Semi-Gloss – Public Art (Main Programme), National Arts Festival (Grahamstown), RSA

Plek-plek – Woordfees Festival Exhibition, Curated by Alex Hamilton (Stellenbosch), RSA

Making Africa – Institute of Culture of Barcelona City Council and Centre of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona (CCCB), (Barcelona), Spain

Future Forecast – The Emancipation of Imagination, Gallery Noko, (Port Elizabeth), RSA

2015

LagosPhoto Festival – Designing Futures, Curated by Christina De Middel (Lagos), Nigeria

U/Tropia – Wiener Festwochen 2015, Curated by Brent Meistre and Daniel Ebner (Vienna), Austria

Demo Tape – Pop Up Video Exhibition, Gallery MOMO (Cape Town), RSA

Slow Violence – University Stellenbosch Art Gallery (Stellenbosch), RSA

Motherless – Alta Marta/Martha co. (Cape Town), RSA

Infecting The City – Public Art Festival(Cape Town), RSA

THAT Art Fair – Performance Programme (Cape Town), RSA

Alternative Opening of Parliament Fashion Show – African Arts Institute(Cape Town), RSA

Proposal – Jnr Gallery (Cape Town), RSA

Cape Mongo – MFA exhibition, Michaelis Gallery (Cape Town), RSA

Barclays L’Atlier Exhibition, ABSA Gallery (Johannesburg), RSA

Sasol New Signatures Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum (Pretoria), RSA

2014

Cape Town Art Fair (Video Programme), the Avenue, V & A Waterfront (Cape Town), RSA

Analogue Eye – National Arts Festival (Grahamstown), RSA

Only Parts – Wits/UCT Masters Exhibition (Johannesburg), RSA

2013

The Big Hole – Cape Town Art Week (Cape Town), RSA

Sasol New Signatures Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum (Pretoria), RSA

2012

Oikos: An Odyssey – Rhodes University Graduate Exhibition (Grahamstown), RSA

Discharge – National Arts Festival (Grahamstown), RSA

Arts Lounge Exhibition – National Arts Festival (Grahamstown), RSA

2011

ABSA L’Atelier Exhibition, ABSA Gallery (Johannesburg), RSA

Sasol New Signatures Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum (Pretoria), RSA

Student Exhibition – Rhodes University Gallery, National Arts Festival (Grahamstown), RSA

The Synthetic Dirt Colloquium, Alumni Gallery, Albany History Museum (Grahamstown), RSA

Picture Pot, Arts Lounge, (Grahamstown), RSA

 

Selected International Film Festivals

2017

Performance Voyage 7, curated by Heidi Kilpeläinen, Jaakko Nousiainen (Head of Arts & Culture, The Finnish Institute in London) and Timo Soppela (director, MUU), (London), England

Journeys Through – ReAssemblage, YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto), Canada

2016

The Usurp Zone5 Film Festival, India Habitat Centre, (Delhi), India

3rd International Festival of Experimental Video “Proceso de Error”, (Valparaiso), Chile

CologneOFF 2016 Austria @ Danube Videoart Festival, artvideoKOELN, Austria

2015   

WNDX Film Festival, WNDX Inc. Jury award winner for ‘Best International Work’, (Winnipeg),    Canada

Addis Video Art Festival (Addis Ababa) Ethiopia

The 6th Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival (Kuala Lumpur), Malaysia

32nd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Filmladen Kassel (Kassel), Germany

28th Les Instants Vidéo Festival, Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et poétiques (Marseille), France

Analogue Eye – GESCHLOSSENE GESELLSCHAFT – 18th INTERNATIONALE SCHILLERTAGE (Mannheim), Germany

17th Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema, Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris), France

VIDEONOMAD III, Multicultural Art Platform, Koganei Art Spot Chateau (Tokyo), Japan

Artvideo Koeln: Audiovisual Experiences, TENRI – Japanese-Cultural Centre (Cologne), Germany

Usurp Zone5 Film Festival, Usurp Art Gallery & Studio (London), England

FILMIDEO – International Film Festival, Index Art Center (New Jersey), USA

ProxyAct – International Short Film Festival (London), England

The Projection Room – International Short Film Festival, The Unstitute (London), England

 

Conferences

2016

Global Graduates Programme Presenter, Design Indaba 2016, RSA

2015

Disturbing the “normalized quiet of unseen power”: Alternative ways of representing violence, The Wallenberg Centre, STIAS (Stellenbosch), RSA

Telling the Truth from the Ground Up: A Culture built on Ethics, Cape Peninsula University of Technology Media Conference (Cape Town), RSA

 

Education

2015    MFA at Michaelis Scool of Fine Art, UCT, Cape Town (with distinction)

2012    BFA at Rhodes University (Cum Laude, with distinction)

2007    Matric at Kingswood College, Grahamstown (with distinction)

 

Bursaries and Awards

2016

Africa Centre: Artist In Residence Laureate

Runner Up: PPC Imaginarium (Film Section)

Blooom Award by Warsteiner: Finalist

2015

Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans

Jury Prize for Best International Work – WNDX Festival of Moving Image

Overall Winner – Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College

2014

NRF-DST Innovation Masters Scholarship

2013

NAC and UCT Postgraduate Bursaries

2012

Dean’s merit list and Academic Colours

2011

Rhodes University Merit bursary

2010

Rhodes University Merit bursary

 

Publications

2016

Art Africa Magazine September Issue: ‘The Value of Labour’

2015

Barclays L’Atelier Exhibition Catalogue

Sasol New Signatures Exhibition Catalogue

2013

Sasol New Signatures Exhibition Catalogue

2012

Art South Africa magazine’s Bright Young Thing (Summer Issue)

2011

ABSA L’Atelier Exhibition Catalogue

Sasol New Signatures Exhibition Catalogue

 

Residencies/Workshops

2016    Nafasi Art Space – Artist In Residence Programme, Tanzania

2015

Social Life of Waste Art Workshop (Johannesburg), RSA

POPTY 2015 – Penquoit Centre (Pembrokshire), Wales

Greatmore Studios Workshop at Ruth Prowse School of Fine Art (Cape Town), RSA

2014

OpenLab – University of the Free State, Bloemfontein/Modern art projects (Richmond), RSA