Sue Williamson
CV
Born in Lichfield, England in 1941. Family emigrated to South Africa in 1948. Lives and works in Cape Town.
ART EDUCATION
1983 Advanced diploma in Fine Art, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town
UPCOMING
2022 The 5th International Biennale Casablanca, curated by Christine Eyene
2021 Other Voices, Other Cities, CAAM, Las Palmas, Spain
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Testimony. Goodman Gallery London.
2020 Pages from the South. Dominique Fiat Gallery. Paris, France.
2019 That particular morning, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2017 Other Voices, Other Cities: Delhi, Prameya Art Foundation
2017 Messages from the Atlantic Passage, Installation, Basel Unlimited, Switzerland
2017 Can't Forget, Can't Remember, Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016 No More Fairy Tales, Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, Bloemfontein, South Africa
2016 Other Voices, Other Cities, SCAD Atlanta: Gallery 1600, Georgia, USA
2016 The Past Lies Ahead, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2015 Other Voices, Other Cities, SCAD Museum, Savannah, Georgia, USA
2014 Sue Williamson, Goodman Gallery stand, Frieze Masters, London
2014 There’s something I must tell you, Iziko Slave Lodge, Cape Town
2013 All Our Mothers Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg and Cape Town
2012 The Mothers: a 31 Year Chronicle, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
2011 Voices, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
2009 Other Voices, Other Cities, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
2009 The Truth is on the Walls, Wilfredo Lam Centre, Havana, 10th Havana Biennale, Cuba
2007 Hotels and Better Lives, Wertz Gallery, Atlanta, USA
2005 Hotels and Better Lives, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
2004 Messages from the Moat, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
2003 Sue Williamson: Selected Work, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels, Belgium 2002 From the Inside, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
2002 The Last Supper Revisited, National Musuem of African Art, Smithsonian Insitute, Washingtion D.C, USA
2001 Can’t forget, can’t remember, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2000 Messages from the Moat, Archive Building, Den Haag, Netherlands

Amina Cachalia, 1984
A Few South Africans series
Photo etching/screenprint collage
70 x 64cm
Edition of 35
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Un (Hidden). Dominique Fiat Gallery. Paris France.
2020 The Sum of all Parts. MoMA. New York. United States.
2020 Allied with Power, Perez Museum, Miami, United States
2020 Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
2019: IncarNation, BOZAR, Belgium
2019: Mapping Worlds: Selected works from the Scheryn Art Collection, Norval Fondation, Cape Town, South Africa
2019: I've Grown Roses in this Garden of Mine, Goodman Gallery, London.
2019: United by AIDS, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switerland
2019: Great Movements of Feeling, NETS Victoria, touring show Australia.
2019 I AM: Contemporary Woman Artists of Africa, Smithsonian, Washington, United States
2019: Smithsonian
2019: The Main Complaint, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
2018: Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018 is curated by Anita Dube, Kochi, India
2018 Great Movements of Feeling, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2018 RESIST! Bozar, Brussels
2018 The Road to Justice, Maxxi, Rome
2017 Women House: Monnaie de Paris: Paris, France
2017 Messages from the Atlantic Passage, Installation, Basel Unlimited, Switzerland
2017 Tous Des Sang-Mêlés, MAC VAL (Musee d’art contemporain du Val de Marne), Paris
2017 Being There: South Africa, a Contemporary Scene, Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris
2017 A Short History of South African Photography, Chiostri San Pietro, Italy
2017 'Citizens - Artist and Society', Tate Modern, London
2017 Lucy’s Iris, Contemporary African Women Artists, El Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM)
2017 Senses of Time: Video and Film-based Works of Africa, Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, Washington DC
2016 L'Autre Continent: Artistes, femmes, africaines, Muséum d'histoire naturelle du Havre, Le Havre, France
2016 Home Truths: Domestic Interiors in South African Collections, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 Senses of Time: Video-and Film-based Works of Africa, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C. & The Ruth and Elmer Wellin
Museum of Art, New York, USA
2016 Citizens - Artist and Society, Tate Modern, London, UK
2016 50/50, New Church Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 El Iris de Lucy (Lucy's Iris), MUSAC, Leon, Spain & Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, France
2015 Album de Familia (Family Album), Centro de Arte Hélio Octicica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015 Fireflied in the Night, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
2014 Ngezinwayo: Migrant Journeys, Wits Arts Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa
2014 Artevida (politico) Museu do Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014 Contemporary Art/South Africa, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA
2014 Striking Resemblance: The Changing Art of Portraiture Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers, NJ, USA
2013 Imaginary Fact: Contemporary South African Art and the Archive, 55th Venice Biennale, Italy
2013 My Johannesburg La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2013 Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Walther Collection, Ulm, Germany
2013 The Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2012 The Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
2011 12th Istanbul Biennial
2011 Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now , Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2011 Artefacts The Project Space, Ann Arbor
2010 Darkroom, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia, USA
2010 Ampersand, Daimler Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2010 Pierneef to Gugulective – 1910-2010, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2009 Unbounded: New Art for a New Century, Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA
2009 Nation State, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2008 Africa: Personal Poetics, Guangzhou Triennale. Guangdong Museum of Art, China*
2008 The Poetics of Cloth, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, USA
2008 Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, Exit Gallery, New York, USA
2007 Lift Off ! Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 Inscribing Meaning, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC and Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, USA*
2007 The Loaded Lens, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2007 The Sneeze 80x80, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa*
2007 Apartheid: The South African Mirror, Center for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, Spain*
2007 Sasol Wax Awards, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg and Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa*
2007 Spier Contemporary Art Awards Spier Wine Estate, Cape Town and Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2007 Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
2007 Désiréalités, Espace 1789, Paris, France
2006 Body of Evidence, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA
2006 Trienal de Luanda, Angola
2006 9th Bienal de Havana, Cuba
2006 Off the Record, Shibuya Station, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Imagining the Book II, Library of Alexandria, Egypt
2004 A Decade of Democracy, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2004 Insights, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA
2004 Dak’Art, Biennale de Dakar, Senegal
2004 The Sneeze 80x80, Gallery Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece
2004 Boustashy 01, El Max, Alexandria, Egypt
2004 AIDS in the Age of Globalization, The National Museum of World Cultures, Gothenburg, Sweden
2003 Transferts, Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2003 Sexuality and Death: Aids in Contemporary African Art, Rautenstrauch- Joest-Museum, Cologne, Germany
2002 History/Now, Liljevachs Konsthalll, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Africa Apart, New Society for the Visual Arts, Berlin, Germany
2002 International Media Art Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
2001-2 The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1954-1994, Villa Stuck Museum, Munich and House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany, and Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York, USA
2001-3 Dis/locations, Circulo de Bella Artes, PhotoEspana, Madrid, Spain, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain and Forum de Maia, O’Porto, Portugal
2001 World Wide Video Festival, Baby Lounge, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2000 Mostra Africana de Arte Contemporaneo; Videobrasil Electronic Art International Festival, SESC, São Paulo, Brazil
2000 Archive 09.0602.07, Quartair, The Hague, Netherlands
2000 Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Openspace, Milan, Italy
2000 Emotional Geographies: Foto Biennale Rotterdam, Netherlands
2000 The New Republics, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2011 Bellagio Creative Arts Fellowship, Italy, Rockefeller Foundation
2007 Visual Artist Research Award Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
2007 Goodman Gallery Award, Johannesburg, South Africa
2005 Lucas Artists Residency Fellowship. Montalvo Art Center, California, USA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
INTERNATIONAL
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tate Modern, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Newark Museum, New Jersey
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Sir Elton John Photography Collection, Atlanta
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
Museum of 21st Century, Louisville, Kentucky
Sindika Dokolo African Collection of Contemporary Art, Luanda
Wifredo Lam Centre, Havana
Daimler Collection, Berlin
Jochen Zeitz Collection, Germany
Walther Collection, Ulm
SOUTH AFRICA
BHP Billiton, Johannesburg
Brenthurst Library, Johannesburg
Cape Provincial Library, Cape Town
Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg
District Six Museum, Cape Town
Durban Art Gallery, Durban
ETV, Johannesburg
Gauteng Legislature, Johannesburg
Houses of Parliament, Cape Town
Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
King George VI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth
MTN Art Institute, Johannesburg
Museum of Art, Pretoria
MuseuMAfrica, Johannesburg
Natal Technicon, Durban
Old Mutual, Cape Town
South African Broadcasting Corporation, Johannesburg
SA Breweries, Cape Town
Sandton Museum, Gauteng
Sasol, Johannesburg
Spier Wine Estate, Cape Town
Standard Bank, Johannesburg
Tatham Gallery, Maritzburg
Tokara Wine Estate, Stellenbosch
United States Embassy, Cape Town
United States Embassy, Johannesburg
University of Cape Town, Cape Town
University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch
University of the Western Cape, Cape Town
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa
SELECTED CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION
2014 On Time: African Art and the Question of Temporality, Clark Institute, Williamstown, USA
2011 Conversation amongst Friends, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2008 The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End, Panelist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
2007 Inscribing Meaning, Panelist, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2005 Imagining the Book Biennale, Panelist, Library of Alexandria, Egypt
2002 Who defines the Contemporary Biennials and the Global Art World?, Panelist. Sackler Museum, Smithsonian International Art Museums
2002 Beyond the Gallery: Art in Public Spaces, Conference director, Cape Technikon, Cape Town, South Africa
2002 Workshop on Cultural Management for Artists, Guest speaker, Hotel Paz, Lujan, Argentina
2001 Fact and Fiction in Post Authoritarian Societies, Guest speaker, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
2001 The Short Century: Artists Talks Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
2000 State of the Visual Arts in Africa and the African Diaspora: An Agenda for the 21st Century, Panelist, Ecole de Beaux Arts, Paris, France