Penny Siopis

NEWS: Penny Siopis is included on Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body at the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (1 April - 10 August 2008), travelling to the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (10 September - 10 December 2008) and the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (31 January - 26 April 2009).

LATEST WORK

Ambush on Disguise (15 May - 5 July 2008)

EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

Lasso (20 September - 20 October 2007)
Feral Fables on Afterlife (22 March - 8 April 2007)

PUBLICATIONS

Lasso (2007)

BIOGRAPHY
Penny Siopis was born in 1953 and lives in Johannesburg, where she is Associate Professor in Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has an MFA from Rhodes University, Grahamstown (1976), and took a postgraduate course in painting at Portsmouth Polytechnic, Portsmouth, England. 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 Three Essays on Shame at the Freud Museum, London (2005); Passions and Panics, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (2005); Shame, Kappatos Gallery, Athens (2003); The Archive, Tropen Museum, Amsterdam (2002); and Sympathetic Magic, Wits Art Galleries, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (2002).