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| 2024 | Karel Nel: Close and Far, WAM, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (June - August 2024) |
| 2015 | Observe, Art First, London |
| 2013 | Silent Thresholds, Art First, London |
| 2011 | There But Not There: The Significance of Absence, Art First, London |
| 2008 | The Brilliance of Darkness, Art First, London |
| 2007 | Lost light: fugitive images from deep space, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg |
2005 |
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2004 |
Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood, Los Angeles |
2003 |
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2002 |
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2000 |
Volcanic Texts, Art First, London |
1999 |
Solo Journeys, Standard Back Gallery, Johannesburg |
1998 |
Images of Paradise and Death, Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles |
1996 |
View on the Inner House, Art First, London |
1995 |
Isles and the Inner House, Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood, Los Angeles |
1994 |
Inner Province, Art First, London |
1990 |
Recent Work, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg |
1986 |
Quite Lives, Gertrude Posel Gallery, University of Witwatersrand |
1983 |
Recent Drawings and Guest Artist, Johannesburg Art Gallery |
1980 |
Drawings, Olivetti Gallery, Johannesburg |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2024 | Art First London, Celebrating 30 Years! |
| 2016 | South Africa: Art of a Nation, The British Museum |
| 2014 | Exact Imagination: 300 years of botanically inspired art in South Africa curated by Cyril Coetzee, at The Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg |
| African Cosmos/Stellar Arts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (originated by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC) | |
| 2012 | The African Cosmos, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
| 2009 | Penelope and the Cosmos, Karel Nel and Willem Boshoff, CIRCA, Johannesburg |
| ZOOM – Looking Back/Looking Forward, Art First, London | |
| 2008 | Angaza Afrika, African Art Now, October Gallery, London |
| Dialogue, Art First, London | |
| 2004 | Ten Years of Democracy, South Africa National Gallery, Cape Town |
2003-4 |
Place, Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen and Kastrupgardsamlingen, Kastrup, Denmark, Touring to Pretoria Art Museum and Oliwenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa |
2001 |
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2000 |
The Shachat Art Collection, SASOL Art Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa |
1999 |
Claiming Art/Reclaiming Space: Post Apartheid Art from South Africa, Smithsonian, Washington DC |
Emergence, Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts,, Grahamtown and touring exhibition |
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1998 |
Divided City Installation, In Nearer than Bronze Exhibition, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa |
1997 |
Art '97, The London Contemporary Art Fair with Art First |
1996 |
Art '96, The London Contemporary Art Fair with Art First |
Three Years On, Art First, London |
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'Insights', Wright Gallery, New York |
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'Vita Art Today', Johannesburg Art Gallery |
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1995 |
Terminos Installation, Johannesburg Art Gallery for the Johannesburg Biennale |
Common and Uncommon Ground, South African Art to Atlanta, City Gallery East, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
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'Art '95', The London Contemporary Art Fair with Art First |
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1994 |
'Art '94', The London Contemporary Art Fair with Art First |
'Artists Under the Southern Cross', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
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Giholte-Baard-Breda Fonden, Copenhagen, with Doris Bloom and Marlene Dumas |
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1993 |
Resident Artist, Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown |
'Art '93', The London Contemporary Art Fair, Islington |
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'Affinities', Contemporary South African Art, Venice Biennale (and Rome) |
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1992 |
Institute of Contemporary Art, Johannesburg |
'Art Meets Science', Grahamstown Festival of the Arts |
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1991 |
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley |
Three South African Artists: A Contemplative View, Midlands Contemporary Art, Birmingham |
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1988 |
Cape Town Triennial |
Fort Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California (prizewinner) |
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1987 |
'Vita Art Now', Johannesburg Art Gallery |
National Drawing Competition Exhibition, Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown |
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Valparaiso Biennale, Chile |
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Tapestries , Linda Goodman Gallery, and tour to South Africa National Gallery |
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1986 |
'Selections From a Century', Johannesburg Art Gallery |
1985 |
'Tributaries A View of Contemporary South African Art , BMW Exhibition, touring Germany and Europe |
Cape Town Triennial |
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Paperworks Group Show (prizewinner |
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1983 |
Tatham Gallery, Pietermaritzburg Association of Arts, Natal |
1982 |
Cape Town Triennial (Gold Medallist) |
1980 |
Durban Arts '80 |
'Young Artists', Olivetti Gallery |
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'Sculpture '80', University of Pretoria |
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1977 |
University of Witwatersrand |
Commissions
2011 |
Reflective Field – Standard Bank commission for Water: The [Delicate] Thread Of Life |
| 2004 | Design: Oval Nguni Wool Carpet – South Africa House, London |
| Design: Book cover for Gordimer, N. (ed).Telling Tales, Bloomsbury Publishing: Great Britain | |
| 2002 | Field of Value, Nedbank headquarters, Sandton |
| 1999 | Place of Nurture – ABSA Bank, Johannesburg |
| 1997 | Signs of Fire – B/M/D Headquarters, Cape Town |
| 1996 | The Way of Stone – Reunion, Indian Ocean |
| 1995 | Four Core Tapestries – Gencor, Johannesburg |
| 1992 | Three Lithographs – Grahamstown Festival of the Arts: Art/Science exhibition |
| 1988 | Geological Stratigraphy – mixed media mural, Anglo Vaal, Main Street Headquarters, Johannesburg |
| Parallel Worlds – Tapestry woven by Marguerite Stephens for new hospital complex, Springs, Gauteng | |
| 1986 | Intact – print edition for Brenthurst Press/Johannesburg Art Gallery |
| 1984 | Trance Atlantic – mural panel, Anglo American Headquarters, 44 main Street, Johannesburg |
| Inner Dance – Sandt Du Plessis Theatre, Bloemfontein |
Awards
| 2005 | South African Museums Publication Design Award: Phillip Tobias poster/invitation: At My Wits End |
| 2004 | Appointed project artist: COSMOS Project, New York (ongoing) |
| 2003 | Gammel Dok Copenhagen artists residency |
2003 |
Residency, Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen |
1991 |
The Old Mutual Vita Award: Overall Winner |
The Simpson Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley |
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1989 |
Art Gallery Founders Prize of the University of California, Berkley |
1987 |
Fulbright Placement (University of California, Berkley) |
University Council Fellowship (University of the Witwatersrand) |
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1986 |
The Volkskas Atelier Award (and 1987,1988) |
1982 |
Olivetti Travel Grant |
1981 |
Almaks Prize |
1979 |
Montagu White Travel Grant |
1978 |
Montagu White Bursary |
Afrox Prize: Open Category |
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1977 |
Afrox Metal Art Sculpture Annual Competition (Student Award) |
Curation
| 2012 | Consultant: African Cosmos – Stellar Arts, Smithsoniam Museum of African Art, Washington D.C. |
| Consultant: WAM! Seeing Stars, opening exhibition, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg | |
| Curator: Between rock: grinding stones from southern Africa, Circa, Johannesburg | |
| 2011 | Co-curator (with Joni Brenner and Gerhard Marx), Design and Installation: Life of Bone: art meets science, Origins Centre, Wits University, Johannesburg |
| Consultant: The Art of Daily Life: Portable Objects from Southeast Africa, Cleveland Museum of Art, USA | |
| 2010 | Consultant: Alan Crump, A fearless Vision, Johannesburg Art Gallery |
| 2009 | Curator: Alexis Preller – Africa, the sun and shadows, Standard Bank Gallery |
| 2008 | Co-Curator (with Mary-Jane Darroll): Edoardo Villa – Changing Worlds, Nirox Sculpture Park, The Cradle of Humankind |
| 2007 | Consultant: Dungamanzi, Stirring waters, curated by Nessa Leibhammer, national touring exhibition |
| Curator: Oceanic Values: currencies of the Pacific, Standard Bank Gallery | |
| 2006 | Consultant: Picasso and Africa, Standard Bank Gallery |
| 2004 | Consultant: Democracy X, The Castle, Cape Town |
| Curator: Glimpses from the South: traditional Zulu, Tsonga/Shangaan objects, Museum for African Art, New York. | |
| Consultant: Voice-Overs: Wits Writings exploring African Artworks, Gertrude Posel Gallery, Wits University | |
| 2002 | Curator: early traditional Zulu, Sotho, Tsonga, Shangaan and Xhosa artifacts, library in South Africa House, London |
| Consultant: African Currency exhibition in Rotterdam to coincide with the launch of the Euro | |
| Curator: Ashanti weights at the Gold Museum, Cape Town. (exhibition withdrawn) | |
| 2001-2 | Consultant: selection and presentation of Southern African artworks in the permanent installation of African art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas |
| 2001 | Consultant and Installation: 15th century Nigerian Sculpture, Meneghelli Foundation at Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg |
| 2000 | Consultant: Ubuntu, Southern African material, Musee de l’homme, Paris. |
| 1999 | Curator: Bridewealth, Currency and Other Assets, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg |
| 1997-8 | Co-Curator (with Nessa Leibhammer): Evocations of the Child: Fertility Figures of the Southern African Region, national touring exhibition |
| Co-ordinator, designer, contributing author: Evocations of the Child: Fertility Figures of the Southern African Region, book published by Human and Rousseau and Johannesburg Art Gallery | |
| 1995 | Consultant: Isigasa-Zulu Earplugs, exhibition, Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown |
| Curator: Johannes Segogela – Guest Artist, Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown | |
| 1994 | Curator: African Architectural Elements and Traditional Furniture, Gertrude Posel Gallery, University of the Witwatersrand |
| 1990 | Consultant and Installation: Art and Ambiguity: Perspectives on the Brenthurst Collection of Southern African Art, Johannesburg Art Gallery |
| 1989 | Consultant: Transformed Fibres, national touring exhibition curated by Nessa Leibhammer |
| 1988 | Curator: Cyprian Shilakoe – Guest Artist, Grahamstown Festival of the Arts |
| 1987 | Consultant: African Art Alternative Approaches, Museums Conference Exhibition, Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, Natal |
