Marlene Steyn

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Bone Memory Installation View

Bone Memory Installation View

Moody Not Broody, oil on canvas board, 40 x 30 cm, 2018

Where they hum Installation View 

Marlene Steyn, We want you to be comfortable, 2016, Oil on Linen, Ceramic and Bronze, 144 x 127 cm

You Can’t Cry When Your Head Is Underwater Installation View 

You Can’t Cry When Your Head Is Underwater Installation View 

MAD LOVE, Installation View, 2015.

MAD LOVE, Installation View, 2015.

Becoming a Braid (All she ever wanted to be), 2013

I am bush myselves, 2019
170 x 170 cm
Oil Goldleaf Mixed Media on Canvas

umbosoming my enbosom2018
106.5 x 100 cm
Oil on Linen

Homies were the hearties, 2015, Mixed Media On Linen, 100 x 93 cm

All she wanted was to be a flying buttress, 2016, Painted Bonze, Wood board, rope, Dimension variable, Ed. no 7／8 of 10

Becoming a braid (Superhero version), 2014, Oil painted ceramics, 33 x 13 x 9 cm

Before herbivores and the 33rd eye, 2015, Oil and mixed media on cut-out linen, 113 x 105 cm

Her mit she named him Billy, Installation shot of the Abralene Maraham Collaboration 2014, Royal College of Art

 

 

 

Marlene Steyn
B. 1989, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.
 

Education
2012-2014	MA in Painting Royal College of Art, London
2008-2011	BA Fine Arts University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Solo Exhibitions
2023	Home Bodies, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2022	You Me Verse, Lychee One, London, UK
2020	MEANDER me and her, Artist Room, SMAC Gallery,Cape Town, South Africa
2019	deep she dive her,SMAC Gallery Cape Town, South Africa Unbuttoning my belly, Lychee One, London, UK
2018	Shouty Insides, Galerie DYS Brussels, Belgium
2017	Knot I : I Knot, SMAC Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa
2016	You Cant Cry When Your Head Is Underwater, Lychee One, London, UK Your Skin Is Not The Best Hiding Place, SMAC Gallery Cape Town, South Africa
2015	The End is Located Underneath Her Third Armpit (if the muscle is flexed), Commune.1, Cape Town Mad Love, Lychee One, London.
2014	How Cannibals Cuddle, Cabin Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023	RMB Latitudes Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Shepstone Gardens, Johannesburg, South Africa. X PINK 101, X Museum, Beijing, China. NON-PLACES, Powerlong Art Centre, Shanghai, China. BAZ Art Festival, Cape Town, South Africa. Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), Cape Town, South Africa.
2022	FNB Art Joburg (SMAC Gallery), Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa. Inner Landscapes, Bloom Galerie, Geneva, Switzerland. Kindred, Boschendal Norval Art Gallery, Franschhoek, South Africa. London Art Fair (Lychee One), Business Design Centre, London, UK. Body and Thrall, Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby, UK. Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), Cape Town, South Africa.
2021	In The Eyes Of The Night Creatures, Delphian Gallery, London, UK. Unfair Weather, Lychee One, London, UK. Weekend Special, Cape Town Art Weekend, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. Opening Exhibition, FNB Art Joburg, SMAC Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa. Investec Cape Town Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Digital Event. The Artists’ Oracle (the show), White Crypt Gallery, London, UK Fertile Laziness, curated by HAZE, Platform Southwark, London, UK.
2020	Miscellanées d’été / Summer miscellany, Galerie Dys, Brussels, Belgium. Staycation, Lychee One, London, UK. ‘L’Heure Bleue’, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium. A Show of Solidarity, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. SHAPING THINGS: An exploration of clay and ceramics in contempcontemporary South African art practice, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Investec Cape Town Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), Cape Town, South Africa. London Art Fair (Lychee One), Business Design Centre, London, UK.
2019	Luxembourg Art Week (Galerie DYS), Luxembourg. African Textures, OSART Gallery, Milan, Italy. arteBOTANICA, in collaboration with Lezanne Viviers, Nirox Sculpture Park, Krugersdorp, South Africa. FNB Art Joburg (SMAC Gallery), Sandton Convention Centre, Johanneburg, South Africa. Paper Summer, Galerie DYS, Brussels, Belgium. HOLDING STILL: Psychology and Portraiture, SMAC Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa. L’acte final – scene one: Louis & friends, GUS Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Investec Cape Town Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), Cape Town, South Africa.
2018	Bone Memory, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. Wish You Were Here, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa. Papercuts, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK. Kneadingthetorsomakesabuzz, curated by Karni Barzilay, KAV 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. FNB Joburg Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa. Desires, GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Investec Cape Town Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), Cape Town, South Africa.
2017	1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), London, UK. FNB Joburg Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa. Another Antipodes Inc, PS Art Space, Fremantle, Australia. X: Part I, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Where they hum, Lychee One, London, UK. All Things Being Equal, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA), Cape Town, South Africa. X: Part III, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Cape Town Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.
2016	Break the Spell, GUS Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Paper, publication, performance, Lychee One, London, UK. New Monuments, Commune.1, Cape Town, South Africa. Across the Divide, Rosenfeld Porcini, London, UK Inside Out, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK Faces & Other Scenarios, a two­ person show at Galerie d’Ys, Brussels, Belgium
2015	LUSH, SMAC Gallery Cape Town, South Africa All s­he ever wanted to be, Galleria M, Kolkata, Indian Island III – Native, G39, Cardiff Johannesburg Art Fair, Commune.1, Johannesburg His Sprinkled Blood Served to Fructify Three Golden Apples, Atelier 35, Bucharest Load Shedding, Commune.1, Cape Town La Piscine, Espace Croix Baragnon, Toulouse, France All s-he ever wanted to be , Galleria M, Calcutta Potretteer, Oude Libertas Gallery, Stellenbosch Cape Town Art Fair, Commune.1, Cape Town
2014	Scintilla: An Alchemy Show, Commune. 1, Cape Town, South Africa Show RCA 2014, Royal College of Art, London RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London Inoperative Mythology, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London PNTNG NOV, Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
2013	Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Spike Island, Bristol Dreamtime: New Surrealism, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, California RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London Work in Progress, Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London Notes to Self, Royal College of Art, London
2011	Gradex, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa VANSA 2010 Reasons to Live in a Small Town, GoetheOnMain Project Space, Johannesburg, South Africa
Residencies
2020	[upcoming] Artist in residence, , Sundaymorning@ekwc, Oisterwijk, Netherlands.
2017	Kav 16 Collaborative Residency with Abraham Kritzman, curated by Angels Miralde Tena & Karni Barzilay, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2016	Collaborative Residency with Avantika Agarwal, Shoonya Space Centre for Art & Somatic Practices, Bangalore, India.
2015	Odd Cultural Node, Bucharest, Romania. Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA.
Awards
2016	Collaborative residency with Avantika Agarwal at the Shoonya Space, Centre for art and somatic practices, Bangalore, India
2015	The Vermont Studio Centre Fellowship, Vermont, USA Collaborative residency with Abraham Kritzman & Angels Miralde Tena at Odd Cultural Node & Atelier 35, Bucharest, Romania
2014	Invited tutor in an Art Residency programme in collaboration with the RCA & British Council Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Selected for Saatchi’s ‘Best of 2014’ Selected for Saatchi New Sensations, London
2013	Painter-Stainers’ Gordon Luton Award for Fine Art Bloomberg New Contemporaries finalist
2011	Noli Procrastinaire, 3 Month public art residency Commission: Laingsburg Municipality – funded by the Visual Arts Network of South Africa.