CV

Upcoming:

2025 “Fever Dream” solo exhbition, 29 March – 6 May, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2025 “Motherhood: Paradox and Duality” group exhibition, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2025 “To Be. Or to Have” group exhibition, WhiteSpaceBlackBox, Neuchatel, Switzerland

2025 Group exhibition, Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands

 

Solo exhibitions:

2024 “A Thin Veil”, Stevenson Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2023  “Vertigo”,  4 February – 11 March,  Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2022 “Folly”, 23 June – 3 September, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany

2021   “Beyond Belief”, July 10 – October 3, 57 work survey exhibition, Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands

2021  “Proverb”, March 20 – April 30, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

2020 Fool’s Gold, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2019 Memory of What Never Was, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2018 You, Me, There, Here, Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis, Mauritius

2018 The Human Abstract, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

2016 Picnic, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2015 Scenes of a Romantic Nature, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

2014 Model for a World: A Survey of 25 Years of Painting , The New Church Museum, Cape Town, South Africa

2013 Pictures, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2012 Land of Cockaigne, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

2011 Arcadia, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2010 Everything Matters, KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa

2009 Everything Matters, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2009 Everything Matters, Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA followed by ACA Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

2007 The Grip of Circumstance, Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa

2006 Safety and Security, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2004 Recent Paintings, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2003 Recent Paintings, Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, South Africa

1998 Paintings, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Selected group shows:

2024 We, the People: 30 Years of Democracy in South Africa, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa

2024 Dreaming with Eyes Open,  WhiteSpaceBlackBox, Neuchatel, Switzerland

2023 If You Look Hard Enough You Can See Our Future, African American Museum, Dallas, USA

2022 Unlimited:  Self-Portraits from the Collection, Drents Museum, Netherlands

2022 Giving Direction: Figuration Past and Present, Strauss and Co, Cape Town, South Africa

2021-2 Works on Paper, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2021 I Have Made a Place, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa

2021 XXL, Open24Hours, Cape Town, South Africa

2018 About Face,  Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2017 A Painting Today, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2017 Tamawuj, Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE

2016 Où poser la tête?, Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis, Mauritius

2016 Exchange, Galerie Hans Meyer, Düsseldorf, Germany

2016 Home Truths: Domestic Interiors from South African Collections, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2016 Der Feine Riss: Zeitgenössische Malerei auf dem Historischen Feld, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin

2016 I Love You Sugar Kane, Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis, Mauritius

2015 Schema, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2014 Chroma, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2014 Exact Imagination: 300 Years of Botanically Inspired Art in South Africa, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2013 Experience 3: Truth, El Segundo Museum of Art (ESMoA), El Segundo, California

2013 The Loom of the Land, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

2012 Eros and Thanatos, SOR Rusche Collection, Oelde/Berlin, Germany

2011 What we talk about when we talk about love, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2011 A Conversation with Bolus, Michaelis Upper Gallery, Hiddingh campus, University of Cape Town, South Africa

2009 Von Liebeslust und Lebenslast – der inszenierte Alltag, Corvey Castle, near Höxter, Germany

2008 Summer 2008/9: Projects, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2007 Family Relation, Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa

2006 South African Art Now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2006 What Lies Beneath, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
New Painting, KZNSA Gallery, Durban, and Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa

2006 South African Painting, Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa

2004 In Between, Galerie Christoffersen Art, Copenhagen, Denmark Grenzen, Künstlerforum, Bonn, Germany

2003 Innocence, Awakening, Fulfilment, Arts Association of Bellville, South Africa Was Ihr Wollt, Künstlerforum, Bonn, Germany

2003 Show Me Home, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa