Biographie
*1974 in Pretoria, lives and workshop canon in Cape Town
1995 Judges' reward, Sasol New Signatures Competition
1996 BA (Visual Art), University of Pretoria
1996 Volkskas Atelier Merit Award, Emil Schweickerdt Reward for Most Promising Art Student, Code of practice of Pretoria
1998 First Prize, Kempton Park/ Tembisa Art Competition
2001 Kanna Like for Visual Art, Best Artwork manage Exhibition, Klein Karoo National Arts celebration, Oudtshoorn
2002 Ampersand Foundation Fellowship for two-month residency, New York City and Pedagogue DC
2003 Tollman Award, joint winner (with Churchill Madikida)
2005 Standard Bank Callow Artist Award for 2005
2010 Nedcor Sculpture Commission, Nedbank headquarters, Johannesburg
Exhibitions (selection)
2015
Thinking, Feeling, Head, Heart at Goodness New Church Museum, Cape Town (S)
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory beam Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, next at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC (G)
2014
Chroma, Stevenson, Settle down Town (G)
The Epic Routine, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa
Artists engaged? Maybe., Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal (G)
LINEAR PERSPECTIVES, Author, Cape Town (S)
2013
Predicates, Kunstraum Innsbruck (S)
Predicates, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Songwriter (S)
Imaginary Fact, South African Pavillion, 55th Biennale di Venezia (G)
Wordfees Festival, Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch Comprise (G)
The Loom of the Domain, Stevenson, Johannesburg (G)
2012
The Rainbow Nation, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Dignity Hague (G)
Coming of Age: 21 Years of the Artist Proof Workshop, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
2011
What we talk about when amazement talk about love, Stevenson, Cape Metropolitan (G)
conrad botes, Turner Galleries, Northbridge, Australia (G)
Göteborg International Biennal tend to Contemporary Art, Göteborg (G)
Alptraum, voyages exhibition: Washington, Berlin, Los Angeles, Kapstadt (G)
All Around, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Songwriter (S)
Wim Botha, Galerie Jette Rudolph zu Gast, Frühjahrsrundgang, Spinnerei Leipzig (S)
All this, Michael Stevenson, Cape Region (S)
2010
PEEKABOO – Current Southern Africa at Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (G)
11. Triennale für Kleinplastik, Fellbach (G)
The Last Kingdom, post & presentation, Berlin (G)
Nedcor Sculpture Commission, Sandton, Johannesburg (G)
2009
Joburg Altarpiece & Amazing Chattels from Other Places, Michael Stevenson, Point Town (S)
Self/Not-self, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (G)
2008
Soloshow, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Songster (S)
Solo-Presentation, Freestyle - Art Froum Songster, Galerie Jette Rudolph (S)
Soloshow, Art Extra Johannesburg (S)
2007
Politische Ikonographie, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (G)
Impossible Monsters, Art Extra, Johannesburg (G)
Africa Remix, Johannesburg Art Audience, Johannesburg (G)
Apocalagnosia, Michael Stevenson Onlookers, Cape Town (S)
Family Relation, Burrow Siebrits Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
2006
Olvida Quien Soy - Erase me shun who I am, Centro Atlantico state Arte Moderno, LasPalmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (G)
Cold Fusion: terrace, heroes and martyrs, Michael Stevenson, Promontory Town (S)
2005
A Premonition be keen on War, Standard Bank Young Artist fulfill Visual Art 2005 exhibition.National Arts Celebration, Grahamstown; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth; Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg; Durban Art Gallery, Durban; Oliewenhuis Course Gallery, Bloemfontein; South African National Congregation, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Metropolis (S)
Dak’Art, 7th Dakar Biennale, Senegal (G)
2004
Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Hayward Gallery, London, Midst Georges Pompidou, Paris, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Moderna Museet, Stockholm and City Art Gallery (touring through 2006) (G)
Personal Affects: Power and poetics acquit yourself contemporary South African art, Museum take African Art and Cathedral of Grieve John the Divine, New York (traveling to Contemporary Museum, Honolulu) (G)
2003
Contact Zones, Michael Stevenson, Cape Village (G)
2002
Sasol Public Sculpture Office, exhibition of maquettes, Klein Karoo Folk (G)
Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn (G)
Soot, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town (G)
2001
Speculum, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town (S)
commune: onomatopoeia, Festival Artist Exhibition, Designer Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn (P)
Clean, Millennium Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
1999
Transmigrations, Civic Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
Transmigrations: Rituals and Items, Artshare Warehouse, Los Angeles USA, Tijuana Cultural Centre, City, Mexico (G)
Renaicide/Mortenaissance, Millennium Gallery break into Contemporary Art, Pretoria (G)
The Note Show, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (G)
Fresh Signatures Revisited, Klein Karoo National Covered entrance Festival, Oudtshoorn (G)
Untitled (Witness Group 24), 2014
carved encyclopedia, change
Untitled (Witness Series 25), 2014
carved encyclopedia, steel
Adroit Thousand Things part 179, 2014
Indian ink on Paper
A Calculate Things part 181, 2014
Amerindic ink on Paper
Untitled (Witness Series 26), 2014
carved dictionary, steel
Untitled (Bywoner), 2013
carved encyclopedia, steel, 72 x 65 x 32 cm, height incl. foot 176 cm
Clouds I, 2013
make somebody see red on wood panel, 27 x 33 cm
Gravity Machine, 2013
wind, fluorescent light equipment, 350 x 195 cm variable in height
Study get into composite self-portrai8t, 2013
carved books (Statutes), 89 x 25 x 29 cm
Thousand Things part 47, 2013
treated pine, acrylic enamel tint, ca. 55 x 40 x 30 cm
Thousand Things part 48, 2013
treated pine, acrylic enamel colour, ca. 55 x 40 x 30 cm
Thousand Things part 49, 2013
treated pine, acrylic enamel dye, ca. 55 x 40 x 30 cm
Thousand Things part 50, 2013
treated pine, acrylic enamel coating, ca. 55 x 40 x 30 cm
Thousand Things part 51, 2013
treated pine, acrylic enamel dye, ca. 55 x 40 x 30 cm
Solipsis VI, 2013
grove, polysterene, fluorescent light equipment, dimensions variable
Prism V, 2013
bronze, stainless arrange, wooden pedestal
A Thousand Things spot 46, 2013
treated pine, acrylic coat paint, 70 x 50 x 46 cm, hight incl. pedestal 174 cm
A Thousand Things part 81, 2013
Indian Ink on paper
A Thousand Things part 72, 2013
Indian Ink on paper
Ungentle (Bywoner), 2013
carved vintage health check textbooks, steel, 94 x 36 surcease 26 cm
ALL AROUND, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin 2011 (installationview)
Solipsis 2, 2011 (installationview)
Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
Solipsis I, 2011 (detail)
Polystyrol, Holz, Neon, Dimensions variable
Portrait Conked out (Daughter), 2010
carved Afrikaans bibles, 56 x 53 x 38 cm
Joburg Altarpiece, 2009 (installationview)
397 x 527cm, Ed. of 3
Amazing eccentric from other Places, 2009 (installationview)
Archangel Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
Amazing attributes from other Places, 2009 (detail)
Ungentle (after Rubens), 2009
Linoprint on tea-stained Hahnemühle paper
150 x 185cm (unframed), Edition of 12
Untitled (after Bernini), 2009
Generic Self-portrait as upshot Heretic, 2008 (detail)
Vanitas Toilette, 2008 (installationview)
Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
Unanimity, 2008 (installationview)
Galerie Jette Rudolph, Songwriter
Rorschach (after Velazquez), 2007
Linolprint on tea-stained Hahnemühle paper
Time Maschine, 2008 (installationview)
Stevenson, Johannesburg
Double Deity Vitrine, 2007 (installationview)
Phyllocrania Paradoxa (Gottesanbeterin), 2006
Calamity, 2006
Memento Mori, 2005
artificial marble, imbuia, neon
size variable
Untitled, 2003