Professor - Sculpture
tel: +27 (0)21 480-7143
email: jane.alexander@uct.ac.za
Solo Exhibitions- Jane Alexander: African Adventure and other works; DaimlerChrysler Award for Contemporary Sculpture touring exhibition: Stuttgart, Berlin, Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Cape Town May 2002 - July 2003
- Jane Alexander; Gasworks London; The Organisation for Visual Arts; Feb/March 2000
- "Bom Boys" and "Lucky girls", UCT Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, July 1999
- Standard Bank Young Artist Award - sponsored national touring exhibition 1995/96
- Sculpture and Photomontage, Market Gallery, Newtown,Johannesburg 1986
Selected Group Exhibitions- 2007/08 Apartheid - The South African Mirror. CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània Barcelona. 27 Sept – 13 Jan.
- 2004-08 Africa Remix. Johannesburg Art Gallery. 24 June – 30 September 2007; Mori Art Museum 27 May–31 Aug 2006; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris June–Sept 2006; Hayward Gallery 10 Feb – 17 April; museum kunst palast Gallery July – Nov 2004
- 2007 Re-Thinking Dissent: Fourth Gothenburg Biennial. Röda Sten, Gothenburg Sweden. 25 Aug – 23Nov.
- 2007 Imbacu: Art from the Inside/Outside. South African National Gallery. 1 Aug- 21 Oct.
- 2007 Das exponierte Tier . KISS Kunst im Schloss Untergröningen e.V. Schlossberg, Germany. 20 May - 23 Sept.
- 2007 Bamako 05. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). 3 Oct 2006 - 28 Jan.
- 2006 How to live together: 27th Sao Paulo Biennale. Oct– Dec.
- 2006 Belief: Singapore Biennale. Singapore. Sept.
- 2006 Zoo. Curator Fabienne Dumont. La Centrale Electrique, Brussels. June.
- 2006 Triennial Beaufort 2006. PMMK Museum of Modern Art in Ostend and the North Sea Coast of Belgium. 1 April – Oct.
- 2004-06 Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art. The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu. 24 Feb - 7 May 2006.
- Cathedral Church of St John the Divine and the Museum for African Art, New York. Oct - Dec 2004.
- 2005 Another World. 6th Bamako Photography African Encounters. November.
- 2005/06 Becoming Animal. MASS MoCA, North Adams. 28 May 2005 – 20 June 2006.
- 2004/05 New Identities: Contemporary South African Art. Pretoria Art Museum. March/April 2005. Museum Bochum. 31 July - 7 Nov 2004.
- 2004/05 Il Bello e le bestie. MART- Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto Italy. 11 Dec 2004 - 8 May 2005.
- 2004/05 CURIOSITY CLXXV. Hiddingh Hall, Michaelis School of Fine Art. Nov – April.
- 2004 Disorientation of Beauty. Lustwarande, Tilberg. Aug 14 - Oct 17.
- 2004 Tremor: Contemporary South African Art. Palais de Beaux-Arts De Charleroi. April - June.
- 2004 Decade of Democracy. South African National Gallery, Cape Town. April.
- 2004 Democracy X. Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town. April – Jan.
- 2000/03 RETREKS: unSUNg CITY. Kings Parkade, Eloff Street Johannesburg Sept 2000; Stockholm car park. Oct.
- 2003 Month of Photography, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare. July.
- 2003/04 Coexistence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa. The Rose Art Museum, University of Brandeis New England. South African National Gallery. Jan – June 2003/Sept 2003 - March 2004.
- Africa Apart, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Dec 2002-Jan 2003
- Surviving Apartheid, Maison Européenne de la photo, Paris Nov 2002
- Contemporary Art from South Africa, Sylt June - August; Kunstverein Zehntscheuer,Rottenburg; September/October 2002
- DIS/LOCATION; PhotoEspana 2001, Circulo de Bellas Artes Madrid June/July 2001; Sala Rekalde, Bilbao March/May 2002; Centro Cultural de Maia, O'Porto October 2002
- World Wide Video Festival; Amsterdam; October 2001
- Africa today, the Artist and the City; Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture May 2001
- The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York February 2001-May 2002
- Head North; BildMuseet Sweden; co-curated by the staff at the BildMuseet & SANG as part of the exchange project 'Visual Cultures in Dialogue'; Feb/April 2001
- A.R.E.A; Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik; November/January 2000
- Seventh Havana Biennial, Wilfredo Lam Centre, Havana City, November/January 2000
- Voices of Southern Africa; British Museum London; November/January 2000
- RETREKS: unSUNg CITY, How the other half..., Kings Parkade, Eloff Street Johannesburg September 2000
- partage d'exotismes/sharing exoticisms; 5th Lyon Biennale; halle Tony Garnier, Lyon June/Sept 2000
- Cross Currents: contemporary art practice in South Africa; Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School, Somerset UK June/September 2000
- South meets West; National Museum Accra,November/December 1999; Kunsthalle Bern and Historisches Museum Bern, April 2000
- Staking Claims, The Granary, Cape Town September/October 1999
- Lines of Sight, South African National Gallery, Cape Town July 1999
- Emergence, Albany Museum Grahamstown, Standard Bank National Arts Festival June 1999
- Triennale der Kleinplastik: Europa, Afrika, SudwestLB forum Stuttgart,Germany October-January 1998
- Africa Africa, Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo September-November 1998
- Bringing up Baby, Grahamstown Arts Festival; The Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery July-December 1998
- DAK’ART: Biennale de L’Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar April 1998
- Showing and Telling, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation,Johannesburg April 1998
Awards- 2004 University of Cape Town Fellowship.
- DaimlerChrysler Award for Contemporary Sculpture 2002
- FNB Vita Art Now Award 1996
- Standard Bank Young Artist Award 1995
- National Fine Arts Student Competition 1982
- Martienssen Student Prize, University of the Witwatersrand 1982
Artworks in public collections- Billiton Art Collection, Johannesburg
- DaimlerChrysler Contemporary Collection Germany, Berlin
- DaimlerChryser Collection South Africa, Pretoria
- Durban Art Gallery
- Fellbach Public collection, Germany
- Gauteng Legislature art collection, Johannesburg
- Gertrude Posel Gallery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
- Johannesburg Art Gallery
- Johannes Stegman Art Gallery, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
- Maison Européenne de la Photo, Paris
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum
- South African Broadcasting Corporation Collection, Johannesburg
- Sandton Civic Art Gallery, Johannesburg
- South African National Gallery, Cape Town
- Standard Bank Corporate Collection, Johannesburg
- Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg
Monograph2002 Jane Alexander, DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Contemporary Sculpture; Hatje Cantz Verlag, Stuttgart. Essays by Simon Njami and Akiko Miki
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| Jane Alexander -Ghost. Detail of Security with traffic 2007. Photograph Rafael Vargas |
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| Jane Alexander - Harbinger. Detail of Verity, Faith and Justice 2006. Photograph Luke Tan |
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| Jane Alexander - Hobbled ruminant with rider. Detail of The sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit 2004. Photograph Mario Todeschini |