SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2006 'CHIMERA' (black edition). Exhibition and Workshop Residency. Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Colorado
2005 Featured Festival Artist, Kleinkaroo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
Galerie Renee Ziegler, Zürich, Switzerland
Gallery Momo, Johannesburg, South Africa
2004 Kunstmuseum Luzern | Art Museum Lucerne. Curated by Susanne Neubauer. Lucerne, Switzerland (Monograph catalogue)
2003 'MEDIA WORK', Curated by John M. Peffer. Jannotta Gallery, Hillyer Hall, Smith College, Massachusetts, USA (Catalogue)
'CHIMERA' (black edition). Galerie Renée Ziegler, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland (Catalogue)
2002 Serge Ziegler Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
2001 'AURORA AUSTRALIS' Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1998 'BEYOND THE PALE', At the invitation of and support by the French Institute of South Africa. Galerie d'Alliance Française, Johannesburg, South Africa
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 'FAIRY TALE', Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art (TICA). Tirana, Albania (Catalogue)
'AFTERLIFE', Curated by Sophie Perryer. The Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town (Catalogue)
'DIVA NYC', Digital and Video Art Fair, New York City. Presented for Diva Streets by Serge Ziegler Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland (Catalogue)
2006 'PERSONAL AFFECTS: POWER AND POETICS IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN ART', The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii (Catalogue)
2005 INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART 2005, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (Catalogue)
'DIGITAL DISCOURSE', St. James Centre for Creativity, Valetta, Malta (Catalogue)
2004 'LA ALLEGRÍA DE MIS SUEÑOS', First Seville International Biennial of Contemporary Art. Curated by Harald Szeemann. Seville, Spain (Catalogue)
'PERSONAL AFFECTS: POWER AND POETICS IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN ART', The Museum for African Art and the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine, New York, NY, USA (Catalogue)
'NEW IDENTITIES: Contemporary South African Art', Museum Bochum, Germany. Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa (Catalogue)
'DIMENSION FOLLY: Subjectivity, Passion and Excess in Everyday Life', Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy. (Catalogue)
2003 'BANQUET', Centre of Contemporary Art Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain; Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany; Conde Duque Cultural Centre, Madrid, Spain (Catalogue)
'TRANSFERTS', Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels. (Catalogue)
'GLOBAL PRIORITY', Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. (Catalogue)
2002 'DISLOCATION, Image & Identity: South Africa', Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid. Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain (Catalogue)
'SURVIVRE À L’APARTHEID, de Drum Magazine à Aujourd’ui', Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. (Catalogue)
2001 'PLATEAU OF HUMANKIND' - VENICE BIENNALE, Venice, Italy (Catalogue)
'CASINO 2001' - 1st Quadrennial of Contemporary Art. S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium. (Catalogue)
WORLD WIDE VIDEO FESTIVAL 2001, Arti & Amiticiae, Amsterdam. (Catalogue)
2000 'MEMÓRIAS INTIMAS MARCAS', Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MUHKA), Belgium; Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal (Catalogue)
'SOUTH MEETS WEST', National Museum. Accra, Ghana, November 1999. KunsthalleBern, April 2000. (Catalogue)
'JOHANNESBURG' - Part of 'Atmosfere Metropolitane', Openspace, Milan, Italy, July 2000. (Catalogue)
1999 'DIALOG 1: VICE VERSES', O.K. Centre of Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria. (Catalogue)
'CHANNEL', Association of Visual Arts, Cape Town.
FNB VITA ART PRIZE EXHIBITION, Sandton Civic Art Gallery, Johannesburg. (Catalogue)
1998 'DEMOCRACY'S IMAGES: PHOTOGRAPHY AND VISUAL ART AFTER APARTHEID', Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden (Catalogue)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2004 - 10 YEARS 100 ARTISTS: Art in a Democratic South Africa. Perrier, Sophie (Ed.) Bell-Roberts Publishing in association with Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa
2003 - Peffer, John M.: “Strange Utopia: John Peffer in conversation with Minnette Vári”, Feature Article in Art SouthAfrica, Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 2003, pp.24 – 30
2002 - BLACK ART: A Cultural History. Richard J. Powell. Thames&Hudson, London, UK
2001 - EL ARTE QUE VIENE / THE ART TO COME, Paco Barragán. Subastas, Madrid, Spain
1999 - GREY AREAS, Representation, Identity and Politics in Contemporary South African Art. Brenda Atkinson and Candice Breitz (Ed.), Chalkham Hill Press, Johannesburg, South Africa
1996 - ART IN SOUTH AFRICA, The Future Present. Sue Williamson and Ashraf Jamal, David Philip Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
SOUTH AFRICA

Billiton SA, Johannesburg, South Africa
Development Bank of Southern Africa, Midrand, South Africa
Gauteng Legislature, Johannesburg, South Africa
gordonschachatcollection, Johannesburg, South Africa
HSRC (Human Sciences Research Council), Pretoria, South Africa
Johannesburg Art Gallery
MTN Art Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa
SABC - South African Broadcasting Corporation, Johannesburg, South Africa
SASOL Corporate Art Collection, Johannesburg, South Africa
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
UNISA - University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

INTERNATIONAL

MUHKA (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp), Antwerp, Belgium
Museum of Art, Lucerne, Switzerland
RMB - Rand Merchant Bank, London
Sindika Dokolo - African Collection of Contemporary Art, Luanda, Angola
Zürich Versicherung, Zürich, Switzerland