Penny Siopis

Penny Siopis ( bɛ dɔɣɔ la silimiingoli February dabaanu dali, yuuni 1953) o nyɛla ŋun nyɛ South Africa nucheeni tuun tumdi so ŋun be Cape Town. O nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so tiŋyuli booni Vryburg din be North West n ti o laambi ban nyɛ Greek nim ban daa yi Siopis yabi doo sani.Siopis nyɛla ŋun bɔhim Fine Arts shikuru yuli booni Rhodes University ni.

Solo exhibitions

2021 Art Basel, Pioneers
2020 Stevenson, Amsterdam
2019 National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
2018 Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 Erg Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2015 Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa
2014 Brandts Museum, Odense, Denmark
2014 Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2011 Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2010 Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
2009 KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa
2009 Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2005 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2005 Freud Museum, London, UK
2003 University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
2003 Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece
2002 Gertrude Posel Gallery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
2002 Tropen Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2002 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2000 Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Makhanda, South Africa
2000 Gasworks Artists' Studios, London, UK
1998 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1994 Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1990 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1990 Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Makhanda, South Africa
1990 Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1987 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1983 Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1982 NSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa
1980 Hiscock Gallery, Portsmouth, England
1979 British Council Centre, London, UK
1978 Hellenic Centre, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
1978 South Africa Collector's Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Selected group exhibitions

2019 Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, Romania; Los Angeles, California
2018 Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2018 Oaxaca, Mexico
2018 Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
2018 Pérez Art Museum Miami, USA
2018 The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
2017 Prospect.4 Biennial, New Orleans, USA
2017 Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 10th Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
2016 British Museum, London, UK
2016 ICA Indian Ocean, Port Louis, Mauritius
2016 Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016 Stevenson Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa
2016 Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2015 The Walther Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2015 Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
2015 Tate Modern, London, UK
2015 Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
2015 Galerie Les Filles De Calvaire, Paris, France
2015 Beirut Art Centre, Lebanon
2014 New Church Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
2014 Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2014 Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
2014 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,San Francisco, USA
2014 Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa
2013 Former Tagesspiegel Building, Berlin, Germany;
2013 Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town, South Africa
2013 South African Pavillion, 55th Venice Biennale, Italy
2013 Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
2013 Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town, South Africa
2012 Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town, South Africa
2012 Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
2012 Khiasma, Les Lilas, Paris, France
2012 Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre;
2012 University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
2012 The New Church, Cape Town, South Africa
2011 Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2011 Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
2011 École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris, France
2011 Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2011 Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany
2011 FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
2011 Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Germany
2010 Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2010 Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2010 7th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
2010 Savannah College of Art and Design, Gutstein Gallery Savannah, Georgia, USA
2010 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2009 Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
2009 San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco,USA
2009 Den Hvide Kodby, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2008 Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2008 Hood Museum, New Hampshire
2008 Davis Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts; San Diego
2008 Museum of Art, San Diego, USA
2008 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, China
2007 L'oeil en cascade, Paris, France
2007 Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain
2007 Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
2007 Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 Cape '07, International Biennale, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 Art Extra, Johannesburg, South Africa
2007 Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2006 Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2006 Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2006 Belfast, Northern Ireland
2006 Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
2005 Royal College of Art, London, UK
2005 Print Center of New York, USA
2005 FLAC, Centrum voor Kunsten en Kultuur in Gent, Belgium
2005 Basis Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
2004 Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
2004 Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Arco, Madrid, Spain
2004 International Art Fair, Athens, Greece
2004 Fortis Circustheater, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2004 MCH Messe, Basel, Switzerland
2004 Kunsthaus, Basel, Switzerland
2004 Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2004 MTN Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2004 Klein Karoo Nationale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
2003 Tropen Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2003 Arti et Amiciitiae, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2003 Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2002 Davis Museum and Cultural Centre, Massachusetts; San Diego
2002 Wellesley College, Boston, USA
2001 Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Arte, Barcelona, Spain
2001 Gertrude Posel Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2000 Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town; Gertrude Posel Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2000 XIII International AIDS conference, Durban, South Africa
2000 Harvard AIDS Institute, Boston, USA
1999 Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
1999 Museum for African Art, New York; Austin
1999 Museum of Art, Texas; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
1999 Palo Alto, California
1999 University of Arizona Gallery, Tucson, USA
1999 Gertrude Posel gallery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
1999 South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Bamako Festival of Photography, Mali
1998 Fotofest, Houston, USA
1998 Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Makhanda
1998 Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1998 BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden
1998 Grande Palais, Paris, France
1998 Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa
1998 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
1997 The National Touring Exhibitions, Oslo, Norway
1997 6th Havana International Biennial, Havana, Cuba
1997 2nd Johannesburg International Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
1997 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1996 Gertrude Posel Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1996 Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
1996 Adelson Galleries, New York, USA
1996 The Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa
1996 Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
1995 1st Johannesburg International Biennale
1995 Wits Galleries, Africus – 1st Johannesburg International Biennale
1995 Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
1995 South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1995 Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Makhanda, South Africa
1995 Meridian Center, Washington DC, USA
1995 City Museum and Art Galleries, Birmingham, UK
1995 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
1995 Center for the Arts, San Francisco
1995 1st Gwanju Biennale, South Korea
1995 Delfina Studio Trust, London, UK
1995 National Arts Festival, Makhanda, South Africa
1995 Meridian Center, Washington DC, USA
1994 5th Havana International Biennale, Cuba
1994 Art First Gallery, London, UK
1994 Block Gallery, Evanston, USA
1993 XLV Venice Biennale, Palazzo
1994 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1994 Giustinian Lolin, Fondazione Levi, Venice, Italy
1994 Sala 1 Gallery, Rome, Italy
1994 Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England
1992 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1992 Alliance Française Gallery, Durban, South Africa
1991 Cape Town Triennial, Iziko South African National Gallery
1991 Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Albany Museum, Makhanda
1991 Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1991 Newtown Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1990 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1990 SOHO 20 Gallery, New York, USA
1989 The Portsmouth Collection, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
1988 Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1988 Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
1988 Cape Town Triennial, Iziko South African National Gallery
1987 Oosterkerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1986 Volkskas Atelier Award Exhibition, South African Association of Arts, Pretoria
1985 Africana Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa
1985 South African National Gallery, Cape Town
1985 Durban Art Museum, South Africa
1985 Cape Town Triennial, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
1984 South African Association of Arts, Pretoria
1983 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
1983 University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg
1982 Cape Town Triennial, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
1977 Settler’s Museum, Makhanda, South Africa

O kpaŋmaŋ pina

Yuuni 2016 Arts & Culture Trust Lifetime Achievement Award, South Africa
Yuuni 2015 Helgaard Steyn Prize, South Africa
Yuuni 2002 Klein Karoo Nationale Kunsfees: Best Visual Artist Award, South Africa
Yuuni 1995 Vita Art Now, Quarterly Award Winner, South Africa
Yuuni 1991 Vita Art Now, Special Merit Award, South Africa
Yuuni 1988 Vita Art Now, Quarterly Award Winner, South Africa
Vita Art Now, Merit Award, South Africa
Yuuni 1986 Volkskas Atelier Award, South Africa
Yuuni 1985 Cape Town Triennial, Merit Award, South Africa

Bibliography

Sue Williamson, Resistance Art in South Africa. Cape Town: David Philip, yuuni 1989.
Colin Richards, 'For want of (An)Other World', in Penny Siopis, Johannesburg: The Artists Press, yuuni 1994.
Clive van den Berg (ed) Panoramas of Passage: Changing Landscapes of South Africa, Washington and Johannesburg: Meridian Center and Wits Art Galleries, yuuni 1995.
Okwui Enwezor (ed) Trade Routes: History and Geography, Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council, yuuni 1997.
Frank Herremen & Mark D'Amato, Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa, London and New York: Museum for African Art: Prestel, yuuni 1999.
Jennifer A Law, 'The Story Teller: Penny Siopis', in Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa Frank Herreman (ed), New York: Museum of African Art, New York and Prestel, yuuni 1999.
Brenda Atkinson and Candice Breitz (eds) Grey Areas: Representation, Identity and Politics in Contemporary South African Art, Johannesburg: Chalkham Hill Press, yuuni 1999.
Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor, (eds) Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, London: Iniva and MIT Press, Yuuni 2000.
Jennifer Law, Penny Siopis: Sympathetic Magic. Johannesburg: University of Witswaterstrand, yuuni 2002.
Kathryn Smith (ed) Penny Siopis, Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, yuuni 2005.
Colin Richards, 'Prima Facie: Surface as Depth in the Work of Penny Siopis' in Kathryn Smith (ed) Penny Siopis, Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, yuuni 2005.
Griselda Pollock, 'Painting, Difference and Desire in History: The Work of Penny Siopis yuuni 1985–1994' in Kathryn Smith (ed) Penny Siopis, Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, 2005.
Jennifer Law, Three Essays on Shame, London: Freud Museum, yuuni 2005.
Penny Siopis, 'Shame in Three Parts at the Freud Museum' in Claire Pajaczkowska and Ivan Ward (eds), Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture, London: Routledge, yuuni 2008.
Sarah Nuttall, Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post- Apartheid, Johannesburg: Wits University Press, yuuni 2009.
Brenton Maart (ed), Red, The Iconography of Colour in the work of Penny Siopis, Durban: KZNSA Gallery, yuuni 2009.
Sarah Nuttall & Penny Siopis, An Unrecoverable Strangeness: some reflections on selfhood and otherness in South African Art, Critical Arts 24:3, 2010.
Colin Richards, 'In Human History: Pasts and Prospects in South African Art today' in Thembinkosi Goniwe, Mario Pisarra (eds), Visual Century: South African Art in Context yuuni 1907–2007, Vo 4, Johannesburg: Wits University Press, yuuni 2011.
Sue Williamson, South African Art Now. New York: HarperCollins, yuuni 2011.
Penny Siopis and Kim Miller, Whose Afraid of the Crowd, Catalogue 57. Cape Town: Stevenson, yuuni 2011.
Corinne Diserens, Appropriated Landscapes: Contemporary African Photography from The Walther Collection, Göttingen: Steidl, yuuni 2011.
Penny Siopis, 'The Hooks of History – Three Films' in Marie-Hélène Gutberelet, Cara Snyman (eds) Shoe Shop, Johannesburg: Jacana Media, yuuni 2012.
Brenton Maart (ed), Contemporary South African Art and the Archive, Makhanda: National Arts Festival, yuuni 2013.
Gerrit Oliver (ed), Penny Siopis: Time and Again, Wits University Press: Johannesburg, yuuni 2014.
Griselda Pollock, 'Remembering Three Essays on Shame, Penny Siopis, Freud Museum, London yuuni 2005' in Gerrit Oliver (ed), Penny Siopis: Time and Again, Wits University Press: Johannesburg, yuuni 2014.
Penny Siopis, Grief, Stevenson: Cape Town, yuuni 2016.
Penny Siopis, Shame, Stevenson: Cape Town, Yuuni 2016.
Penny Siopis, Material Acts , Stevenson: Cape Town, yuuni 2019.
Karen Milbourne, I Am...Contemporary Women Artists of Africa, Washington DC: Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, yuuni 2019.

Kundivihira

External links

Artist Website.
SAHO – Pippy Siopis. Sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2017-08-28.