Kathryn Smith visual artist | researcher Email [email protected] Tel +27 (0) 82 773 7033 Studio serialworks | Unit F404 Woodstock Industrial Centre | 66 Albert Road | Woodstock 7925 | Cape Town | South Africa Postal PO Box 44699 | Claremont 7735 | Cape Town | South Africa Skype serialworks Online www.serialworks.info | www.goodmangallerycape.com/smith.html Born in Durban, 1975. Based in Cape Town Currently Senior Lecturer (Head of Fine Arts), Department of Visual Arts, University of Stellenbosch Represented by Goodman Gallery Studio work Research- and curatorially-focused. Camera-based media. Broad investigation focuses on ‘forensic’ aesthestics versus evidentiary paradigms, informed by theories of film, photography, the archive and the media; law and the image; psychoanalysis, curatorial practice Art historical research Theorising the South African avant-garde and experimental/radical practices in contemporary South African art, with particular focus on new media, dialogical praxis and performance work EDUCATION 1999 MA(FA) by Coursework and Research (with distinction) University of the Witwatersrand Graduate exhibition Lifetime Guarantee, Generator Art Space, Johannesburg 1997 BA(FA) Printmaking major (with distinction) University of the Witwatersrand SOLO EXHIBITIONS * catalogue/publication 2009 In Camera Fotografins Hus, Stockholm 2008 In Camera Goodman Gallery, Cape Town 2007 In Camera Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg 2004 – * Euphemism National Arts Festival, Grahamstown Commissioned for the Standard Bank 2005 Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Young Artist Award Elizabeth Durban Art Gallery, Durban Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, University of the OFS, Bloemfontein South African National Gallery, Cape Town Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg 2003 Jack in Johannesburg Johannesburg Art Gallery Invited by Christian Nerf’s 24.7 residency project COLLECTIONS Public South African National Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery, City of Johannesburg, Grahamstown Foundation Corporate Standard Bank Investment Corporation, South African Broadcasting Corporation, BHP Billiton SA, Sasol Limited Private South Africa, USA, UK, Europe 1 COMMISSIONS 2008 Adler Museum of Medicine/Orenstein Memorial Lecture poster Right Through the Arts: Kathryn Smith (episode 6). Barry and Bester Productions for SABC2 60 min. television documentary with commissioned 3 min film piece 1999 Terre Blanche, M., Bhavnani, K. and Hook, D (eds) Body Politics: Power, Knowledge and the Body in the Social Sciences. Histories of the Present Press, Johannesburg, 1999 Cover image from Exteriors series (1996) and images in chapter 24 from Still Life series (1997) AWARDS, RESEARCH AND RESIDENCIES 2009 Dean’s Fund for international conference participation Creative Research outputs subsidy, University of Stellenbosch Invited application: Kyoto Artist Summit 2009 2008 Research subsidy for publications, University of Stellenbosch Creative Research outputs subsidy, University of Stellenbosch KIC/NRF Grant for Local and Overseas Travel Dean’s Fund for international conference participation Invited application: Paul Klee Zentrum Summer Academy 2008 Invited application: Wattiss/Capp Street Project 2007 iCommons Summit Artist-in-Residence scholarship, Dubrovnik, Croatia Dean’s Fund grant for conference participation, University of Stellenbosch 2006 Research Development Grant, University of Stellenbosch 2005 National Arts Council grant (City+Suburban Studios) Nominated to Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs, Montalvo Arts Centre 2004 Business and Arts South Africa grant Residency, Studio XX, Montreal, Canada Residency, Artists’ Press, Mpumalanga. Produced Peculiar Modern Behaviour, a portfolio of ten hand-printed photogravure/photolithograph prints 2003 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Arts 2004 Ampersand Fellowship, New York (residency taken up Jan/Feb 2005) Production grant for Jack in Johannesburg: The Goodman Gallery Symposium: The Art of Murder: Representation and Crime in Late Victorian Britain, Tate Britain 2002 Inaugural Wits Convocation/Alumni Bright Star Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts and Humanities 2001 ABSA Atelier Award (finalist) FNB Vita Art prize (short-listed artist) 2000 ABSA Atelier Award (finalist) 1999 Sasol New Signatures competition (overall winner) 1995- Postgraduate research trip to Paris: personal interviews with Joel-Peter Witkin 1998 Centre for Scientific Development scholarship Giovanna Millner Scholarship for local or overseas travel Postgraduate Merit Bursary 2 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2009 Black blank projects, Cape Town Studio Visit / Conversations Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town Curated by Kirsty Cockerill with Bianca Baldi 2008 Johannesburg Art Fair Goodman Gallery booth Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg The Trickster Art Extra, Johannesburg Curated by David Brodie 2007- Spier Contemporary, Spier Estate 2008 Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg 2007 About Beauty Goodman Gallery, Cape Town Curated by Emma Bedford Hell Yeah Museum of Contemporary Art, Cape Town Curated by Christian Nerf and Douglas Gimberg The Loaded Lens Goodman Gallery, Cape Town Curated by Emma Bedford and Storm Janse van Rensburg The Art Happens Here Galerie OTOK, Dubrovnik, Croatia * KO Video: Popular Selection Various venues, Mexico Curated by Greg Streak 2006 Shared History/ W139 & Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Curated by Greg Streak Decolonising the Image Netherlands Art & Storytelling Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg Curated by Nessa Leibhammer 2005 Click: Local and International Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg Curated by Linda Givon and photography David Brodie KO Video KZNSA Gallery, Durban Curated by Greg Streak 2004- * Through The Looking Glass: National touring exhibition Curated by Brenda 2005 Representations Of Self By South Schmahmann (touring) African Women Artists 2004 * Art Basel Miami Beach Miami, USA * Making Waves: a selection of works Johannesburg Art Gallery Curated by Koulla Xinisteris from the SABC Art Collection Lomo Photo ZA, Johannesburg 2003 * Art Basel Basel, Switzerland * OK Video Jakarta, Indonesia Curated by Greg Streak Fotofiesta Medellin Museo de Anioquia and Centro Colombo Americano, Colombia +27 Sessions Translocal Channel/How Latitudes Become Forms, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA YDEsire Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town Curated By Kim Stern and Collaboration with Christian Nerf James Webb 2002 * Clean Millennium II, Johannesburg Curated by Retha Erasmus * Grime Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town Curated by Retha Erasmus 2001 * ABSA Atelier Award ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg * FNB Vita Art Prize NSA Gallery, Durban Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg 2000 * A.R.E.A. 2000 Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland Curated by Gavin Younge * Pulse: Open Circuit NSA gallery, Durban Curated by Greg Streak Art in the world 2000 Pont Alexandre III, Paris Curated by Fabrice Bousteau Tour Guides of the Inner City Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg Curated by Stephen Hobbs Magic Moments Johannesburg Civic Gallery, Johannesburg Curated by Minnette Vári Emotions and Relations Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg Curated by Hentie van der Klein Karoo National Arts Festival Merwe Downtown Video Focus Johannesburg Civic Gallery, Johannesburg Curated by Brad Hammond Unplugged V and Retrospective Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg Initiated by Kendell Geers 1999 Renaicide/Mortenaissance Millennium Gallery, Pretoria Curated by Wim Botha Postcards from South Africa Axis Gallery, New York Curated by Gary van Wyk and Lisa Brittan Sasol New Signatures Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria Exchange Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg Six Pack Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg Curated by Stephen Hobbs 3 SELECTED REVIEWS/CITATIONS 2009 Holm Flach , Eva-Lotta. ‘Kathryn Smith In Fotografins Hus Stockholm Interview Camera’ (Interview) Stockholm exhibition pamphlet Alton, Peder. ‘Photography As Witness Of Dagens Nyheter Stockholm Review Truth: Convincing work by Kathryn Smith’ Moyo, Sita. ‘The Desiring Gaze in the University of KZN, School Pietermaritzburg MAFA Photographic Artworks of Kathryn Smith, of Literary Studies, Media dissertation Zanele Muholi and Sita Moyo’ and Creative Arts 2008 De Jager, Maureen. ‘Tracing and erasure in De Arte Issue 78 Journal article Kathryn Smith’s Psychogeographies: The Washing Away of Wrongs’ Keylock, Miles. ‘Surrealism and the macabre’ Mail & Guardian Friday January 18 – 24, 2008 Review Minnaar, Melvyn ‘Precise stagecraft is Cape Times January 24, 2008 Review hallmark of show about evil’ Sloon, Robert. ‘The K Smith Code. Kathryn http://artheat.net/2008/01/k- January 13, 2008 Review smith-code-kathryn-smith-at- Smith at Goodman’ goodman.html Van Eeden, Adrienne. ‘Donkerte onthul Die Burger January 30, 2008 Review onstellende beelde in uitsonderlike kuns’ ‘Kathryn Smith at the Goodman Gallery Cape’ www.artthrob.co.za/08jan/listings January, 2008 Listing (no author) _cape.html#ggc Sloon, Robert. ‘Kathryn Smith at the Goodman www.artheat.net/2008/01/kathry January 9, 2008 Review Cape’ n-smith-at-goodman-cape.html 2007 Dodd, Alex. ‘Kathryn Smith’ Art South Africa Vol. 6, issue 2 (Summer) Review Gray, Brenden. ‘Kathryn Smith at the http://www.artthrob.co.za/07oct/ October, 2007 Review Goodman Gallery’ reviews/goodman.html Malcomess, Bettina. ‘Hell Yeah at the Museum www.artthrob.co.za/07aug/review August, 2007 Review of Contemporary Art’ s/moca.html Van Rensburg, Wilhelm. ‘Dis-Location/Re- National touring exhibition Educational Location’ supplement Wilkinson, Veronica. ‘An unconventional