CURRICULUM VITAE:

Linda Stupart Born 29 September 1983 [email protected] http://lindastupart.wordpress.com http://www.lindastupart.com

EDUCATION:

2001: Receive a Matriculation Exemption from Westerford High School. 2005: Receive a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town 2008: Receive a Masters of Fine Arts at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town 2011 – Present: Study towards an Arts Practice PHD at Goldsmiths College, University of London

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

 2003: Receive the Class Medal for Discourse of Art II  2004: Receive the Class Medal for Theory and Practice of Art III  On the Deans Merit List  2005: On the Deans Merit List  2011: Awarded a Research Bursary at Goldsmiths College

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 Last Quarter 2004: Intern for arts journal, Art South Africa, edited by Sean O’Toole

 2005: Library Assistant in Hiddingh Hall Library at the University of Cape Town  July 2005 – 2007: International Listings Editor for electronic journal, ArtThrob, edited by Sue Williamson  September 2005 - July 2006: Cape Town Editor for ArtThrob

 December 2005 till February 2006: Assist Zayd Minty in the organisation of the first Visual Arts Network South Africa (VANSA) national conference, Transformation/Growth/Opportunity in the Visual Arts Sector  2006: Tutor for Discourse of Art I and Discourse of Art II at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts  Lecture in Discourse of Art II at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts

 2007: Tutor for Discourse of Art I, II and III at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts  Lecture in Discourse of Art II and III at the University Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts  Curator at the UCT Centre For African Studies Gallery

 2008: Tutor for Discourse of Art II and Discourse of Art III at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts.  Lecture Discourse of Art III at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts  Correspondent and reviewer for the Daily ArtHeat at the Johannesburg Art Fair

 2009: Lecture Weekly in Photographic Theory at City Varsity  Editor, writer and reviewer for the Daily ArtHeat at the Johannesburg Art Fair  Image and Copyright Co-ordinator and Acting Media Officer for Iziko Museums Cape Town

 2010: Lecture Third Years in the Arts History Department at Rhodes University (four week course): Community Art in South Africa  Lecture in Discourse of Art I and II at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts  Tutor Discourse of Art I and II at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts  Tutor, History Department at the University of Cape Town.  Editor, writer and reviewer for the Daily ArtHeat at the Johannesburg Art Fair  Course Convene Introduction to Contemporary Art and Visual Cultural, History Department, University of Cape Town  Assist Michael Godby in convening the Honours and Masters Art Criticism students, History Department, University of Cape Town

 2011: Lecture Discourse of Art III at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts  Tutor Discourse of Art II at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts  Conceive of, plan and teach the first ever Performance Art course in the Art Practice department at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts  Press Officer for The Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town.  Administrator for the Michaelis School of Fine Art Alumni Auction.

 2012: Teaching Assistant for Critical Studies and Art Writing at Goldsmiths College.

PROGRAMS:

 2007: Conceive of, plan and facilitate a yearlong series of Young Curators Workshops at the UCT Centre For African Studies  200-2010: Launch and project manage the Mixtape Public Arts Project, in collaboration with the Grahamstown National Arts Festival

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PROJECTS:

 September 2005: Assist with the running of art workshops at the 2005 Living Landscapes project in Clanwilliam

 2008: Work with NuBuntu on organising an art auction in aid of MyLiFE, a section 21 Company that works with street children in Cape Town

 2010: Mixtape Public Arts Project launches the Sakhalunthu Art Factory collaboration, which works directly with children from Grahamstown’s ‘locations’, providing them with access to the National Arts Festival and to year-round interaction with contemporary arts and cultural production

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

 2005: Serve as the chairperson of the Michaelis School of Fine Arts’ Student Representative Council  2005 – 2007: Serve on the Western Cape governing committee of VANSA (Visual Arts Network South Africa)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

 February 2007: Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me at blank projects space  December 2009 – 2010: Who’s Abject Now Bitch? or crime scene consistent with a particular double homicide at YOUNGBLACKMAN

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

* indicates a catalogue  2003: YDEsire at the Castle of Good Hope. Curated by James Webb and Kim Stern

 2005: Printtt at the AVA. Curated by Andrew Lamprecht  The Black and White Poster Project at Dirt Contemporary. Curated by Rory Palmer, Bevan Anderson and Jen-Henri Booyens *  Absolute Secret at the AVA

 2006: Month of People’s Photography (MOPP)  ABSA Le’ Atalier finalist exhibition *  Portrait Exhibition at the AVA.

 2007: Come at the Michaelis Gallery and the KZNSA *

 2008: Fresh Meat at Whatiftheworld/Gallery. Curated by Robert Sloon. *  Come Again at the Michaelis Gallery and the Wits Granary *  Readymade at iKizo Gallery. Curated by Bettina Malcomess  Big Wednesday at Whatiftheworld/Gallery

 2009: Voight-Kampff at the UCA Gallery. Curated by Catherine Ocholla.

 2010: Swallow My Pride at blank projects space. Curated by Margaret Stone.  Vex and Siolence at YOUNGBLACKMAN: A Three person show with Stuart Bird and Belinda Blignaut.

 2011: The Night Show at Goodman Gallery. Curated by Tony East and Claire van Blerck.  Zink Theatre Space. A happening curated by John Nankin.  ALPTRAUM . Various spaces in Washington, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Cape Town

WITH DOING IT FOR DADDY (Renee Holleman and Bettina Malcomess)

 2006: The Cape Town Biennale at blank projects. Curated by Andrew Lamprecht  X Cape. An intervention outside of the South African National Gallery

 2007: CCC at the AVA  Spier Contemporary at the Spier Estate, Johannesburg Art Gallery and Durban Art Gallery (2008). Curated by Clive van den Berg and Jay Pather*

 2008: Prints and Editions 08 at Whatiftheworld/Gallery  2009: Nation State at Goodman Gallery and Goodman Gallery Cape*

 2010: Localities: Fact and Fiction at the Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark. Curated by N’Gone Fall & Sanne Kodof Olsen. *

AWARDS:

 2006: Final selection for the ABSA Le ‘Atalier

 2007:With Doing it For Daddy: Winners at the Spier Contemporary Art Awards

CURATORSHIP:

 2007: FINDING UCT: Narratives, New and Old in the UCT Permanent Collection at the UCT Centre for African Studies Gallery (with Clare Butcher)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

 Gamaker, E, 2006, Birds of Paradise and Also-Rans: The Michaelis Graduate Exhibition 2005. ArtThrob January 2006. (http://www.artthrob.co.za/06jan/reviews/michaelis.html)  Robert Sloon, 2007. Strange Bedfellows. 3C at AVA. ArtHeat Friday, August 03, 2007. (http://artheat.blogspot.com/2007/08/strange- bedfellows-3c-at-ava.html#links)  Young, E, 2007. Review: 3C. Art South Africa V6.2 November 2007.  Robert Sloon, 2007. Untitled Post. ArtHeat Friday, September 21, 2007. (http://artheat.blogspot.com/2007/09/it-seems-seldom-these-days-to-see- art.html)  Tietze, A, 2007, Finding UCT: Narratives New and Old in the UCT Permanent Collection' at the UCT Centre for African Studies. ArtThrob November 2007. (http://www.artthrob.co.za/07nov/reviews/uct.html)  McIntosh, T, 2008. Spier Contemporary Art Awards. ArtThrob January 2008. (http://www.artthrob.co.za/08jan/reviews/spier.html)  Sean O’ Toole, Mix of Daring and Promise. Financial Mail 15 February 2008  Sean O’ Toole (editor), 2008. Bright Young Things: Daddy’s Girls. Art South Africa V6.3 March 2008.  Suzy Bell, 2010. Artist Makes Mark in Blood at City Gallery. Cape Times. 5 January 2010.  Altschuler, J. 2011. Linda Stupart: Profile. South African Art Times. October 2011.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

BOOK CHAPTERS AND CATALOGUE ESSAYS:

 Come Again in Inggs, S (ed.). Come Again. Cape Town: UCT  Beyond 2000 in Smith, R. 2008. Future Shock Lost. Cape Town: Whatiftheworld  Return of the Undead in Gratrix, G, Master Copy. Cape Town: Whatiftheworld.  If you believe they put a Man on the Moon in Smith, R. 2009. If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home. Cape Town: Whatiftheworld  A Specific Experience of an Abnormal Meaningfulness: Cyberspace Conspiracy and Performativity in the work of Robert Sloon in Sloon, R & Maggs, C. 2009. Syndrome. Cape Town: Whatiftheworld.  The comma, or, a Moment of Great Significance: An introduction to the Postgraduate Diploma Students in Inggs, S (ed.). 2010. Michaelis Graduate Exhibition. Cape Town: UCT.  Double Negative: Performance, Performativity and the Queer impostor in Fouche, P (ed.) 2011. Pierre Fouché Selected Work 1999- 2011. Cape Town: Whatiftheworld  The Dappled Light on Your Face: Environmental and Relational Aesthetics in ‘Maybe Your Magic is Working’ in Mooney, D (ed.) 2011. Maybe Your Magic is Working. Cape Town: Whatiftheworld  Antoinette Glatthaar-Theron, Linda Stupart, Elza Miles. 2011. Nel Erasmus. Cape Town: SMAC.   FLOWER PRESSING Love, Preservation and Death: The Flower in Contemporary South African Art Production in Threshold. Virginia MacKenny (ed.) Fourthwall Books: Publication Pending (2012)  Score in Smith, R & Lee, I (eds.). COME ON YOU FUCKERS. Calarts: California. Publication Pending (2012)  Echoing Crags Resound in Roussouw, C (ed.). 2012. A History of Failure. Cape Town: Brundyn & Gunsalves.

ARTICLES/REVIEWS:

Note: This is a very small selection of key texts amongst over a hundred reviews and articles published since 2005 particularly on http://www.Artthrob.co.za and http://www.Mahala.co.za * indicates a peer reviewed journal

 Cameron Platter at the Bell-Roberts, ArtThrob, November 2005. (http://www.artthrob.co.za/05nov/reviews/bellroberts.html)  Diane Victor and Churchill Madikida at Michael Stevenson, ArtThrob, November 205. (http://www.artthrob.co.za/05nov/reviews/stevenson.html)  SESSIONS eKapa: What went on ?, ArtThrob, December 2005. (http://www.artthrob.co.za/05dec/news/sessions.html)  Pieter Hugo at Michael Stevenson Contemporary, ArtThrob, March 2006. (http://www.artthrob.co.za/06mar/reviews/stevenson.html)  Wim Botha at the SANG, ArtThrob, May 2006. (http://www.artthrob.co.za/06may/reviews/index.html)  'Second to None' at the SANG, ArtThrob, July 2006. (http://www.artthrob.co.za/06july/reviews/sang.html)  Bruce Nauman and Charles Atlas at the Michaelis Galleries. ArtThrob. June 2007. [http://www.artthrob.co.za/07jun/reviews/michaelis.html  Brian Eno at the Michaelis Gallery. ArtThrob. March 2007. [http://www.artthrob.co.za/07mar/reviews/michaelis.html]  Moshekwa Langa Art South Africa. Art South Africa v6.3. March 2008  Monomania Art South Africa. Art South Africa. Vol.7 Issue 2, Summer 2009.  Pieter Hugo, Conrad Botes at Michael Stevenson Contemporary. ArtThrob. February 2009. (http://www.artthrob.co.za/09feb/reviews/stevenson.html)  Reframing the Subject: Athi –Patra Ruga at WHATIFTHEWORLD/GALLERY and YOUNGBLACKMAN. ArtThrob . October 2010. (http://www.artthrob.co.za/Reviews/2010/10/Linda-Stupart- reviews-La-Mamma-Morta-and-Teeth-Are-the-Only-Bones-that-Show-by- AthiPatra-Ruga-at-Whatiftheworld/gallery.aspx)  Other Things: Ian Grose Art South Africa. Vol 09 Issue 03. Autumn 2011.*  A Paper Issue: Books as Medium and Metaphor in the Post-Apartheid artistic landscape. Art South Africa. Vol 09 Issue 04. Winter 2011. *  Sadomasochisticafricocamphysteria. Kaleidoscope Issue 14. Spring 2012.