Penny Siopis

NEWS: Penny Siopis was included on the 17th Biennale of Sydney (12 May - 1 August), and is currently showing on PEEKABOO - Current South Africa at the Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (20 August - 16 January 2011). Her next solo exhibition at Michael Stevenson takes place in April 2011.

CURRENT EXHIBITION

  • Furies  at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (5 August - 18 September 2010)

RECENT WORK

Obscure White Messenger

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

  • New paintings  at Joburg Art Fair (26-28 March 2010)
  • Paintings  (16 April - 30 May 2009)
  • Recent works  on Self/Not-self  at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (26 March - 25 April 2009)
  • Ambush  on Disguise  (15 May - 5 July 2008)
  • Lasso  (20 September - 20 October 2007)
  • Feral Fables  on Afterlife (22 March - 8 April 2007)

PUBLICATIONS

BIOGRAPHY
Penny Siopis was born in 1953 in Vryburg, South Africa. She has an MFA from Rhodes University, Grahamstown (1976), and is an Honorary Professor at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. She works in painting, photography, film/video and installation. Her work since the 1970s has covered different foci but her interest in what she calls the 'poetics of vulnerability' characterises all her explorations, from her earlier engagements with history, memory and migration to her later concerns with shame, violence and sexuality. She has exhibited widely, both in South Africa and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include the curated show Red: The iconography of colour in the work of Penny Siopis at the KZNSA Gallery, Durban (2009), and Three Essays on Shame at the Freud Museum, London (2005). Full CV