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Born 1961 Pretoria, South Africa 1985 – 1989 - Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree and Masters in Fine Arts Degree (Sculpture), University of Cape Town, SA 1992 – 1995 - Established and lectured in the Sculpture Department at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa | |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2008 | ‘Crocodile Tears’, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, SA |
| 2006 | ‘Sleep Sleep’, The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, SA and João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, SA |
| 2003 | “Us and Them” Axis Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2002 | Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year Award exhibition, ‘White Like Me’, travelling to: National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa King George VI Gallery, Port Elizabeth, South Africa Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg ,South Africa Durban art Gallery, Durban, South Africa Johannes Stegman Art Gallery, Bloemfontein, South Africa South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 2001 | “Hero” Bell- Roberts Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa |
| 2000 | “I Love Africa” Bell- Roberts Contemporary, Cape Town ,South Africa and The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 1997 | “Own”- Haenel Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa and The Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 1996 | “Brett Murray- New sculptures” – Gallery Frank Haenel, Frankfurt, Germany “White Boy Sing the Blues” Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2008 | Joburg Art Fair, SA: The Goodman Gallery booth |
| 2007 | ‘Lift Off II’, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, SA ‘Cape 07’ Biennale, Cape Town, SA ‘Turbulence’, HANGAR-7, Salzburg, Austria ‘The Geopolitics of Animation’, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain |
| 2006 | Art Basel Miami, USA: The Goodman Gallery booth |
| 2005 | Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland: The Goodman Gallery booth Dorp Street Gallery, Stellenbosch, SA ‘Imprints’, Axis Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2004 | “ Post Pop” Moja Modern , Johannesburg , South Africa 'Min(e)dfields' - Kunsthaus Basseland, Switzerland 'Identity'- Fortis Circus Theatre, Scheveningen, Holland ‘A Decade of Democracy’, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, SA |
| 2003 | ‘Literally and Figuratively: Text and Image in South African Contemporary Art’, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town, SA ‘Absolutely/Perhaps’, Simon Mee Fine Arts, London, UK ‘Mettle and Paint’, Mettle Headquarters, Johannesburg, SA ‘Retreks’, Video projections, Fotographins Haus, Stockholm, Sweden ‘Space Repurposed’ Red Bull Music Academy, Cape Town, SA ‘Art City’, Cell-C, Johannesburg, SA ‘Picnic’, Bell-Roberts Contemporary, Cape Town, SA |
| 2002 | ‘I.D./Ology’, Axis Gallery, New York, USA ‘Con/Text’, Axis Gallery, New York, USA ‘Broadcast Quality:The Art of Big Brother’, SABC TV, SA |
| 2001 | ‘World Wide Video Festival’, Amsterdam, Holland ‘Body: Rest and Motion’, Oudtshoorn Festival, SA |
| 2000 | ‘Cast’, Bronze Age Gallery, Cape Town, SA ‘Retreks: How the other half…’, Animated Video Projection, Johannesburg, SA ‘Collaboration’, Bell-Roberts Contemporary, CapeTown, SA ‘Returning The Gaze’, Cape Town One City Festival, SA |
| 1999 | ‘Visit’, Natal Society of the Arts, Durban ,SA ‘Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa’, Museum for African Art, New York, USA ‘New Worlds: Contemporary Art from Australia, Canada and South Africa’, Canada House, London, UK |
| 1997 | ‘Fin de Siècle’, Lyons, France Cologne Art Fair, Germany: Gallery Frank Hänel booth ‘30 Minutes’, Robben Island Museum, Cape Town, SA ‘District Six Public Sculpture Project’, Cape Town, SA ‘Smokkel’, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale Fringe, SA |
| 1996 | ‘New Sculptures’, Gallery Frank Hänel, Frankfurt, Germany ‘Anima-L: Der Mensch im Tier - Das tier im Mensch’, Eislingen Kunstverrein, Germany Cologne Art Fair, Germany: Gallery Frank Hänel booth ‘Groundswell, Mermaid Theatre, London, UK |
| 1995 | ‘The Laager’, Johannesburg Biennale, SA ‘Scurvy’, The Castle, Cape Town, SA Venice Biennale, in Malcome Payne’s installation, Italy ‘Spring time in Chile’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile ‘Junge Kunst Aus Zud Afrika’, Gallerie Frank Haenel, Frankfurt, Germany ‘Panoramas of Passage: Changing Landscapes - South Africa’, Albany Museum, Grahamstown, SA |
| 1994 | ‘Banquet’, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, SA 5th Cuban Biennale, Wilfredo Lam Museum, Havana, Cuba Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Aachen, Germany ‘Contemporary Art from South Africa’, Deutsche Aerospace Gallery, Otobrun, Germany |
| SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
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2005 - Brett Murray: Plasticien, Les carnets de La Creation, Double Storey Publishers 2004 - The ID of South African Artists Sharlene Kahn (Catalogue) 2004 - 10 Years- 100 Artists Art in a Democratic South Africaedited Sophie Perryer, Struik Publishers and Bell-Roberts Publishing 2004 - Sculpture International Sculpture Center December, 2004, Vol. 23, no.10 2003 -Space Repurposed Red Bull Music Academy, Cape Town (Catalogue) 2003 -Art City Cell-C, Johannesburg, Catalogue 2002 - Broadcast Quality: The Art of Big Brother SABC TV, South Africa, (Catalogue) 2002 - Art South Africa, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (Essay) 2002 - Sculpture, International Sculpture Center , June Vol, 21 No. 5,(Article) 2002 - KKNK2002 , Oudshoorn, South Africa, (Catalogue) 2001 - Word Wide Video Festival,Amsterdam, (Catalogue) 2001 - Sasol Collection, Johannesburg, (Catalogue) 2001 - KKNK Visual Art Catalogue, Oudshoorn 2000 - White Like Me, Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year, (Catalogue) Brett Murray, Bell-Roberts Publishers, (Catalogue) 2000 - Collaboration Bell Roberts Contemporary, (Catalogue) 2000 -Returning The Gaze, by Zayd Minty, Cape Town One City Festival, (Catalogue) 1999 - Liberated Voices Contemporary Art from South Africaedited by Frank Herreman, Museum for African Art, Prestel, New York, (Catalogue) 1997 - Contemporary South African Art , edited by Kendell Geers, The Gencor Collection, Johannesburg, (Catalogue) 1997 - Thirty Minutes, edited by Sue Williamson, Robben Island Museum, (Catalogue) 1997 - District Six Public Sculpture Project, (Catalogue) 1996 - Groundswell, Mermaid Theatre London, (Catalogue) 1996 - Anima-L Der Mensch im Tier - Das tier im Mensch Eislingen Kunstverrein, Germany, (Catalogue) 1996 - Art in South Africa: the Future Present by Sue Williamson and Ashraf Jamal, David Phillip Publishers, Cape Town. 1995 - Images of Metal Elizabeth Rankin - Witswatersrand University Press. 1996 - Cuban Biennale, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Aachen, Germany, (Catalogue) 1996 - Contemporary Art from South Africa, Deutsche Aerospace Gallery, Otobrun, Germany, (Catalogue) 1994 - Revue Noire, South Africa. 1992 - Art in Outline: An Introduction to South African Art, by Merle Huntley (Oxford University Press) 1992 - GIF Book of original Prints, Artists’ Press and Fig Gallery. 1992 - Art Now Johannesburg Art Gallery, (Catalogue) 1991 - A.D.A. Cape Town Edition. 1989 - Resistance Art in South Africa by Sue Williamson, David Phillips Publishers | |
| COMPETITIONS | |
| 2002 | Winner - collaboration with the late Stefaans Samcuia - Cape Town International Convention Centre, Public Art Competition |
| 1998 | Winner - Cape Town Urban Art Foundation – Sculpture Competition. |
| 1992 | Finalist - Waterfront Sculpture Competition - Cape Town |
| 1992 | Finalist - Cape Town Urban Art Foundation - Sculpture Competition |
| PUBLIC COMMISSIONS | |
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1994 - ‘Aids Memorial’, Company Gardens, Cape Town. 2005 - ‘Yesterday Tomorrow’, Houses of Parliament, Cape Town. 2007 - ‘Specimens’, University of Cape Town, South Africa. | |
| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
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Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town Johannesburg Art Gallery Durban Art Museum Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg University of Cape Town University of South Africa, Pretoria Sandton Municipality, Johannesburg BHP Billiton Collection, Johannesburg MTN Collection, Johannesburg Sasol Collection, Johannesburg South African Breweries, Johannesburg South African Broadcasting Corporation, Johannesburg The South African Reserve Bank, Johannesburg Vodacom Collection, Cape Town | |