Tracey Rose
Gallery News for Tracey Rose
Tracey Rose at Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme
Tracey Rose is participating in the Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme, Berliner Künstlerprogramm. This is one of the most renowned international programmes offering grants to artists in the ?elds of visual arts, literature, music, film as well as dance/performance. Each year, some 20 grants are awarded to international artists for an approximately one-year stay in Berlin.
Moshekwa Langa and Tracey Rose on the 11th Biennale de Lyon
Moshekwa Langa and Tracey Rose are participating in the 11th Biennale de Lyon, “A Terrible Beauty Is Born”, curated by Victoria Noorthoorn
“For the creation of the 11th Biennale de Lyon, historically a Biennale d’auteur,” explains Noorthoorn, “I have chosen to do as artists do: to grope, in the midst of a darkness that may or may not grow lighter as I advance, from point to point and from work to work, oriented by my obsessions, intuitions, and fears, and by the leads and provocations that each of the participating artists have thrown along my (that is, our) way. I have worked and traveled so that this show does it all at once: to address the uncertainty of the present and the near future, to speak about the condition of the artist and the necessity of art, while leaving the door open to doubt, to contradiction, to perplexity, to change and to movement.”
The 11th Biennale de Lyon will include around 70 artists from around the globe, but primarily from Europe, Africa and Latin America, across the 14,000 square meter of its four venues: La Sucrière, the Fondation Bullukian, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, and the T.A.S.E. factory.
The Biennale runs from 15 September-31 December 2011.
Various artists on (Re)Constructions: Contemporary Art from South Africa at Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi (MAC)
Works by David Goldblatt, William Kentridge, Kagiso Pat Mautloa, Sam Nhlengethwa and Tracey Rose feature on Constructions: Contemporary Art from South Africa at Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi (MAC) in Brazil. Curated by Daniella Géo, this show brings together 13 artists from South Africa, from emerging young artists to those internationally established. All of their works have a close relationship to the notion of reconstruction, whether conceptually or aesthetically. The range of diverse works reflects the multiplicity of artistic strategies in post-apartheid South African society. The exhibition programme includes a round table, educational activities, guided tours for public schools, and a bilingual catalogue.
Other exhibiting artists include Roger Ballen, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Diana Hyslop, Lawrence Lemaona, Santu Mofokeng, Thenjiwe Nkosi, Lerato Shadi and Mary Sibande
The exhibition runs from 19 March-15 May 2011.
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Group exhibitions
Rose O'Grady / Lorraine O'Grady & Tracey Rose
Text by Adrienne Edwards
The significance of Lorraine O’Grady and Tracey Rose’s new show, an exhibit at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg of curated selections of their works from different periods in their careers, cannot be overstated. Titled Rose O’Grady, the show is a gift to artists, to South Africa, to the world. It is the first time that Lorraine O’Grady will exhibit in Africa. It is the first time that there will be an intergenerational and international dialogue between two important black female conceptual artists with performance-based practices. It is the first time that Rose’s dynamic work, presented on her home turf following her important retrospective at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, will be contextualised with that of an especially inspirational American pioneer.
What makes this truly unique is that O’Grady and Rose have multi-disciplinary practices, including video, photography, text, and installation, with performance at the core. The confluence of identity issues and contemporary life concerns are what have made performance as an artistic practice immensely relevant for them as they explore the binary complexity of their identity and address new agendas, completely unrestrained by tradition and convention. They both possess a profoundly deep understanding of and research in literature and art history, including Renaissance old masters, modernism, conceptual and performance art, and especially feminist art of the 1960s-1970s. Their work exists at the nexus of postmodern art movements, political discourse, sociological investigation, and historical narrative. O’Grady and Rose’s conceptual frameworks – which are deeply process driven, it typically taking years to develop a concept for a work – are centered on the development of characters and personas. These personas give physical form to their ideas as they create a variety of individuals or metaphorical beings: some are personal, some stereotypical, others historical. The personas serve to embody, transform, and use these women’s life experiences in order not to be held back, rendered powerless by them. Their aim is also to catalyse society, to clear the mental and moral barriers, allowing art to lurk in the midst of things, allowing the message to hang in the air, allowing it to permeate our collective conscious.
While the work spans over 30 years, one of the most striking aspects of this special collaboration, despite differences in age and geography, is the evolutionary pattern, a continuum that exists between these two artists. These bold, fearless, aggressive works are deeply and profoundly connected. O’Grady certainly had almost no references who shared a common life experience as her own when she began to make work. Rose and artists of her generation and those even younger, whether in South Africa or in the Caribbean or in the United States, absolutely do: there is O’Grady, Suzanne Cesaire, Ben Patterson, Adrian Piper, and David Hammons, among many others. What this show most importantly does is to convey that this brave work is not made in isolation and that it is overpoweringly relevant.
The exhibit presents the artists’ important early works, including performance stills from O’Grady’s Mlle Bourgeoisie Noire (1980-1983), and Rose’s Span I and Span II (1997) and Ciao Bella (2001). It also features photographs that reference and subvert public performance traditions or “parading” like the African American Day Parade in Harlem, New York City and the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival. O’Grady and Rose will each show thrilling new work in the show.
So starting this May, the initial rumblings of what ultimately will be a seismic shift in the global contemporary art world, will emerge as a proposition – indeed, a new persona, a merging of minds, aesthetics, voices, and experiences. She is Rose O’Grady.
Lorraine O’Grady is an artist and critic whose installations, performances, and texts address issues of diaspora, hybridity, and black female subjectivity. The New York Times in 2006 called her “one of the most interesting American conceptual artists around”. And in 2007 her landmark performance, Mlle Bourgeoisie Noire, was made one of the entry points to WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the first-ever museum exhibit of this major art movement. Born in Boston in 1934 to West Indian parents, O’Grady came to art late, not making her first works until 1980. After majoring in economics and literature, she’d had several careers: as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. government, a successful literary and commercial translator, even a rock critic. Ultimately, her broad background contributed to a distanced and critical view of the art world when she entered it and to an unusually eclectic attitude toward artmaking. In O’Grady’s work, the idea tends to come first, and then a medium is employed to best execute it. Although its intellectual content is rigorous and political, the work is generally marked by unapologetic beauty and elegance.
Tracey Rose was born in 1974 in Durban, and currently lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. She received her B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in 1996, and earned a Masters of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK, in 2007. In 2006, she was named one of the 50 greatest cultural figures coming out of Africa by The Independent newspaper in London. Rose has had solo presentations in South Africa, as well as in Europe and the Americas, has been featured in major international events such as the Venice Biennale in 2001 and her work has been included in seminal exhibitions such as Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography and Africa Remix. Tracey Rose: Waiting for God, the artist’s mid-career retrospective, was recently held at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. The exhibition was co-produced with Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden, where it will be presented in September 2011.
Adrienne Edwards works with Performa, the visual art performance biennial. She has a thriving intellectual practice focused on conceptual and performance art, and is pursuing a graduate degree at New York University in Performance Studies. -
Biography
Tracey Rose was born in 1974 in Durban, and currently lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. She received her B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in 1996, and earned a Masters of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK, in 2007. In 2006, she was named one of the 50 greatest cultural figures coming out of Africa by The Independent newspaper in London, UK. Rose has had solo presentations in South Africa, as well as in Europe and the Americas, has been featured in major international events such as the Venice Biennale in 2001 and her work has been included in seminal exhibitions such as Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography and Africa Remix. Tracey Rose: Waiting for God, the artist’s mid-career retrospective, was held at the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2011. The exhibition was co-produced with Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden, where it travelled to in September 2011.
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Waiting for God, Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden
2011 Rose O’Grady (with Lorraine O’Grady), Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
2011 Waiting for God, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa2009 Raison d’être, Espace doual´art, Douala
2008 The Cockpit, MC Kunst, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Plantation Lullabies, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg2007 Tracey Rose, The Project, New York City, NY
2006 ¿Le molesta que dé de pecho aqui?, Polvo, Chicago, USA
2006 Imperfect Performance: A tale in two states, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden2004 The Thieveing Fuck and the Intagalactic Lay, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
2004 Lucie’s Fur, The Project, New York, USA2003 Ciao Bella, Gallery in the Round, Grahamstown, South Africa
2002 TKO, Yvon Lambert Le Studio, Paris, France
2002 The Project, New York, USA
2002 Ciao Bella, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa2001 La Panaderia (with Uri Tzaig), Mexico City, Mexico
2000 00.1 TKO, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, USA
2000 The Project, New York, USA
2000 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South AfricaGroup Exhibitions
2011 11th Biennale de Lyon, France
2011 _ Re)Constructions: Contemporary Art from South Africa_, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi (MAC), Brazil2010 FINE ART 2010, ARTCO Galerie GmbH, Herzogenrath
2010 An unspardonable sin, castillo/corrales, Paris
2010 Afro Modern. Journeys through the Black Atlantic, CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
2010 Disidentification, Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg
2010 Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England)2009 ARTCO – FINE ART, ARTCO Galerie GmbH, Herzogenrath
2009 Adding Substractions, Bag Factory, Johannesburg
2009 Gechichte/n Verwahren, Galerie IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna
2009 Rebelle – Kunst & Feminisme 1969–2009, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem – MMKA, Arnhem2008 Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image since 1970 – Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
2008 Snap Judgments, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2008 The Left Hand Of Darkness, The Project, New York City, NY
2008 Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
2008 DIALOGE – ARTCO Galerie GmbH, Herzogenrat2007 Apartheid – The South African Mirror, CCCB, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona
2007 Global Feminism, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2007 Cinema Remixed and Reloaded (Part I), Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2007 The Loaded Lens, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town
2007 Africa Remix, Contemporary art of a continent, Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg
2007 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2007 Lift Off Part II, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town
2007 TRANS CAPE, contemporary African art on the move, Trans Cape Africa, Cape Town
2007 Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY
2007 Critical Mass, Kritische Masse I, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
2007 Juicios instantáneos, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City2006 Perfect Performance, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (catalogue)
2006 Memories of Modernity, Malmö, Sweden
2006 Nie Meer Nie, Belguim
2006 Don Giovanni, Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
2006 Masquerade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (catalogue)
2006 Snap Judgments, International Centre of Photography, New York, USA (catalogue)
2006 Olvida quien soy, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (catelogue)2005 David Exhibition, Michealangelo Towers, Johannesburg (catalogue)
2005 Orientations and Illusions, prog:Me, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (video banned)
2005 Fair Play, play gallery, Berlin, Germany
2005 Click, The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
2005 The Project (with Jessica Rankin and Maria Elena González) , Los Angeles, USA
2005 African Queen, The Studio Museum Haarlem, New York, USA
2005 The Healers, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
2005 Africa Remix, The Haywood Gallery, London, UK; Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (catalogues)2004 Horisonter, The Museum of World Cultures, Göteberg, Sweden (catalogue)
2004 Trouble, Le Grand Café, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France
2004 How to Resist, L.A. Freewaves, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
2004 Making Waves, Johannesburg Art Gallery (brochure)
2004 Negotiated Identities: Black Bodies, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
2004 X, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, UK (brochure)
2004 Afrika Remix, museum kunst palest, Dusseldorf, Germany (catalogue)
2004 Double Vision, Worldwide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue)
2004 Seeds and Roots, The Studio Museum, New York, USA
2004 Tremor, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium (catalogue)
2004 Decade of Democracy, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (catalogue)
2004 Through the Looking Glass, Grahamstown, South Africa (catalogue)
2004 Coexistence, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA2003 Writing Identity, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
2003 The Squared Circle: Boxing in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (catalogue)
2003 Espacios Mestizos, Osorio, Gran Canaria (catalogue)
2003 Transferts, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (catalogue)
2003 More Than a Thousand Words, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY2002 Playtime, Museum Afrika, Johannesburg, South Africa
2002 Suvivre á l’Apartheid, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (catalogue)
2002 Africaine, The Studio Museum, New York, USA
2002 Winterkabinet, Paraplufabriek (Umbrella Factory), Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2002 Goddess, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA2001 The Project (with Grazia Toderi and Uri Tzaig), Los Angeles, USA
2001 A little bit of history repeated, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
2001 Projects for a Revolution, Mais de la Photo, Montreal, Canada (catalogue)
2001 The Hope I hope, Faces of Truth, Ayloul Festival, Beirut, Lebanon
2001 Aggressions, Espacio C, Carmargo, Spain (catalogue)
2001 PRO.(TEST).1, The Zone, Johannesburg, South Africa
2001 19th Worldwide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue)
2001 Plateaude l’humanite, 49 Esposizione Internazionale D’Arte la Biennale di Venizia, Italy (catalogue)
2001 In the meantime…, De Appel, Amsterdam (catalogue)
2001 Fresh: Artist in Residence, South African National Gallery, Cape Town (monograph)2000 Socialisme, Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 Mostra Africana de Arte Contemporanea, SESC Pompéia, SaoPaulo, Brazil (catalogue)
2000 Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal (catalogue)
2000 South Meets West, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland (catalogue)1999 Videodrome, The New Museum, New York, USA
1999 Channel, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1999 Video Cult/ures, Zentrum Fúr Kunst and Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany (catalogue)
1999 Dialog: Vice Verses, OK Centrum, Linz, Austria (catalogue)1998 Triennale of Small Sculptures, SudwestLB Forum, Stuttgart, Germany (catalogue)
1998 Guarene, Fondiazione Sandretto per l’arte, Torino, Italy (catalogue)
1998 Democracy’s Images, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden (catalogue)
1998 Human Rights Day, Hillbrow Fort, Johannesburg, South Africa
1998 Dark Continent, Klein Karoo Nationale Kunstefees, Oudshoorn, South Africa1997 Graft, Trade Routes History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South African National , South Africa (catalogue)
1997 FNB Vita Awards, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, (catalogue)
1997 Cross/ings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampa, Florida, USA (catalogue)
1997 Purity & Danger, Gertrude Posel Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa1996 Hitchhiker, Generator Art Space, Johannesburg, South Africa
1996 Scramble, Civic Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
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