| SELECTED EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2005 | Solo Exhibition, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg |
| 2003 | Solo show at the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels |
| 2002 | From the Inside - Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town. From the Inside - Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg. The Last Supper Revisited - National Museum of African Art,Smithsonian Institute, Washington. |
| 2000 | Messages from the Moat – installation on the theme of slavery, old Archive Building, Casuarie Str. Den Haag. Curated by Jan de Lange of the Stichting Kunstmanifestasies |
| 1999 | Truth Games - Dakawa Art Centre, Grahamstown |
| 1998 | Truth Games - Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg. Truth Games - Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town. |
| 1994 | Recent work, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg. Recent work, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein. Out of the Ashes - Fortaleza de la Cabana, Havana. Individual exhibition at the 5th Bienal de la Habana, CubaNorth Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks |
| 1993 | The Last Supper Revisited - Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town. |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2004 | A Decade of Democracy- South African National Gallery, Cape Town Insights – National Museum of African Art, Washington Visions of Paradise - Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town The Performative in African Photography - Cape Town Dak'art 2004 - Biennale de Dakar, Senegal The Sneeze 80x80 Gallery Gazon Rouge, Athens New Identities: Contemporary South African Art - Museum Bochum Boustashy 01 - Alexandria, Egypt Brett Kebble Art Awards - International Convention Centre, Cape Town HIV/AIDS in the Age of Globalization - TheNational Museum of Wotld Cultures,Gothenburg. |
| 2003 | Transferts, Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels Co-existence: contemporary cultural production in South Africa, Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Boston |
| 2002- 4 | History/Now – Liljevachs Konsthalll, Stockholm; Museum of Work Norrköping; Linköpings Art Centre; Dunkers Culture Centre, Helsingborg, Sweden Sörlandets Art Museum Kristiansand, Norway Midlanda Art Centre, Timrå/Sundsvall; Ronneby Art Centre, Sweden. |
| 2002 | Africa Apart – New Society for the Visual Arts, Berlin Rencontres Video Arts Plastiques - Herouville Saint Clair, Normandy, France International Media Art Festival, Mexico City Head North – work from the permanent collection of the South African National Gallery - Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden, and Other Scandinavian venues. |
| 2001-2 | 'The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa' 1954-1994’, curated by Okwui Enwezor. Villa Stuck Museum, Munich, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York. |
| 2001-3 | Dis/locations curated by Danielle Tilkin at Circulo de Bella Artes, Madrid for PhotoEspana 2001, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao and Forum de Maia, O’Porto. |
| 2000 | Videobrasil Electronic Art International Festival, Sao Paulo. Johannesburg - Openspace, Milan. Curated by Clive Kellner for Atmosphere Metropolitan series, coordinated by Roberto Pinto Emotional Geographies: re-imaging the past in post- apartheid narrative – Las Palmas Building at Rhine Harbour.. Curated by Clive Kellner for Foto Biennale Rotterdam The New Republics - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. Secure the Future – Exhibition Centre, Durban and Harvard University,Boston. |
| 1999 | Artery – Goodman Gallery artists at Joao Ferreira Fine Art, Cape Town <<Rewind>> Fast Forward.ZA - Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands. |
| 1999-2002 | Liberated Voices – Contemporary Art from South Africa. Curated byFrank Herremans. Museum for African Art, New York, Stanford University, California and the University of Arizona |
| 1998 | Fotofest, Houston, USA |
| 1998-9 | 'Drome och Mollnar', Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Museum of Fine Art, Goteborg |
| 1997 | Thirty Minutes - the Robben Island Visitors Block, Cape Town. Installations by nine artists .Alternating Currents - Electric Workshop, Johannesburg. Curated by Okwui Enwezor and Octavio Zaya for the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale. |
| 1996 | Colours - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin Insight: Four Artists from South Africa - Wright Gallery, New York |
| 1995 | Ku(n)stlijn: CAL Foundation, Hoorn, Holland Objects of Defiance, Spaces of Contemplation,, MuseumAfrica, Johannesburg. Curated by Emma Bedford. 1st Johannesburg Biennale. |
| 1994 | 'Kunst Heimat Kunst' - Kunstlerhaus, Graz . Steirischer Herbst Festival of Contemporary Art. |
| 1993 | 'Incroci del Sud', Fondazione Levi, Venice. XLV Venice Biennale. Sala Uno. Rome. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
| 1992 | 9th Biennale of Sydney - Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. |
| AWARDS | |
| 2004 | Major award winner, Brett Kebble Art Awards, Cape Town |
| 1994 | Vita Art Now Award for best exhibition in South Africa in 1993 |
| PUBLISHED WORK | |
| Contributing editor to Contemporary, London and NKA, New York.Numerous catalogue essays | |
| 2003 | 'Sue Williamson: Selected Work' Monograph on occasion of solo show at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels. Published by the Centre, Double Storey Books, Cape Town, and the Goodman Gallery |
| 1999 - present | Founding Editor of 'ArtThrob', fortnightly internet magazine on contemporary art in South Africa. Web address: http://www.artthrob.co.za |
| 1996 | 'Art in South Africa: the Future Present' - A full colour, 160 page book on the work of 40 contemporary artists in South Azfrica - co-authored by Ashraf Jamal, and published by David Philip Publishers, Cape Town |
| 1989 | 'Resistance Art in South Africa' - work by major and unknown artists on the theme of social protest. Published by David Philip Publishers, Cape Town and St Martins Press, New York. Republished 2004, Double Storey Books, Cape Town |
| WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
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South African National Gallery, Cape Town Johannesburg Art Gallery Durban Art Gallery Museum of Art, Pretoria Tatham Gallery, Pietermaritzburg Museum Africa, Johannesburg Gauteng Legislature,Johannesburg Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg Sandton Museum, Gauteng Brenthurst Library, Johannesburg The University of Cape Town The University of the Western Cape The University of Stellenbosch The University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The University of Zululand Natal Technicon, Durban King George VI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth Cape Provincial Library South African Breweries, Cape Town BHP Billiton, Johannesburg BMD Knitting Mills, Cape Town MTN Art Institute, Johannesburg Old Mutual, Cape Town National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama,U.S.A. North Dakota Museum of Art, U.S.A Wifredo Lam Centre, Havana CAL Foundation, Hoorn, Holland | |
| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND ARTICLES | |
| 2003 | 'Sue Williamson:Selected Work' Monograph, Double Storey Publishers, The Goodman Gallery, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels, Africalia. |
| 2001 | 'Anthology of African Art of the 20th Century'. Edited by N’Gone Fall and Jean Loup Pivin. Revue Noir Editions. P. 371,375 |
| 1999 | 'Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace' Edited by Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor pub. by MIT Press p. 348-373 'About face: aspects of art history and identity in SA visual culture' by Colin Richards Illus. 350-1 'Contemporary African Art' by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir pub. (Thames & Hudson) p. 155-6 Iiius. 155 |
| 1998 | 'Atlantica' magazine, Spring 1998. Six page artist’s project p.94-99. |
| 1997 | 'Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century' – Richard J.Powell pub. World of Art, Thames & Hudson.p. 175-6,145 |
| 1993 | 'Kunstforum International 122. Sue Williamson' by Eugenio Valdes p.323 |
| 1991 | 'Africa through the Eyes of Women Artists' – Betty La Duke Published by Africa World Press: Sue Williamson – Art and The Struggle for South African Liberation. P105-114 |