Conrad Botes

NEWS: Conrad Botes has been selected for the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial in China (5 September - 9 November 2008). His next solo exhibition will take place at Michael Stevenson in January 2009.

RECENT WORK

Requiem on Summer 2007/8 (28 November 2007 - 12 January 2008)

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

Satan's Choir at the Gates of Heaven (3 May - 2 June 2007)
Pietà on South African Art Now (29 November 2006 - 6 January 2007)
Bitterkomix (with Anton Kannemeyer) (24 October - 25 November 2006)
Underground series (2006)

PUBLICATIONS

Satan's Choir at the Gates of Heaven (2007)
The Big Bad Bitterkomix Handbook (2006)

BIOGRAPHY
Botes, born in 1969, has an MA Fine Arts from the University of Stellensbosch (1997) and a Diploma in Second Phase Illustration from the Koninklijke Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag, Netherlands (1994). His biting satire, frequently directed at South African society, politics and religion, is channelled into both his painting and printmaking, and his comix which have been published in the Bitterkomix series, alongside those of his frequent collaborator Anton Kannemeyer, since the early 1990s. In 2004 Botes won the Absa l'Atelier award, and recent solo exhibitions have taken place at the Absa Gallery, Johannesburg (2005), and Johannesburg Art Gallery (2004). Recent group exhibitions include Africa Comics at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2007); Turbulence at Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria; the Havana Biennale (2006); and New Painting at the KZNSA Gallery, Unisa Art Gallery and Johannesburg Art Gallery (2006). Full CV