Ernestine White

b. Cape Town, 1976

An innovative print-maker, White’s work investigates notions of place, identity and belonging in the context of South Africa’s political and social history.

Curriculum Vitae

Art Education

2007:Project Management Certificate, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town.

2004:Master of Fine Art Michaelis School of Fine Art,University of Cape Town.

2000-2001:Master Printer Certificate,Tamarind Institute,Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

1999-2000:Professional Printer Program Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

1994- 1999:Bachelors in Fine Art,School of Art and Design,Purchase College, NY.

Exhibitions

2011: Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

2009: Innovative Women, Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg. ABSA Atelier Award (Top 100 selection), Johannesburg.

2008: Print '08: Myth, Memory and the Archive, Bell Roberts Contemporary Art Gallery, Cape Town. Scratching the Surface, AVA, Cape Town.

2007: africa south,AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.ReCenter Lookout Hill,Khayelitsha,Cape Town; Glamouraid,Kizo Art Gallery,Kwa Zulu Natal &Amarula Room,Sandton City, Johannesburg. Women for Children’s Rights, The Museum Room,Parliament of South Africa, Cape Town.

2006:Cape Town:Contemporary Prints, Polvo,Chicago, USA. [Artist/Poet Collaboration] Women for Children’s Rights – Precious Cargo, Art for Humanity, Tatham Gallery, Pietermaritzburg & Slave Lodge, Cape Town. Women for Children’s Rights ,Tatham Gallery,Pietermaritzburg. Print 2006: Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town & Art on Paper, Johannesburg.

2005:Krisp, Art B Gallery, Bellville, Cape Town.[Collaboration] Artists thinking in beads, Coeo Art Collaborative, Cape Town. Botaki Exhibition 3, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town. Botaki Exhibition 2. Old Mutual asset Managers, Cape Town.

2004: Woolworths, Canal Walk, Cape Town. Art Cool-LG Electronics,Roodebloom Wine Launch,Johannesburg.

2003: Surface=Print,AVA, Cape Town.Picnic,Bell Roberts Gallery,Voicing the Abstract,Community Arts Project, Cape Town.

2002: Tamarind impressions,Allan Greene Gallery, LBQ, New Mexico, USA.

Work Experience

2007- 2011:Senior Projects Coordinator:Parliamentary Millennium Programme,Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.

2003- 2006:Exhibitions Coordinator-Curator:Parliamentary Millennium Project,Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.

2005:Part-time Lecturer:Michaelis School of Fine Art,University of Cape Town.

2004:Collections Manager, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.

2002-2003:Tours-Coordinator:Parliamentary Millennium Project,Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.

2003:Press Assistant: Impact International Print Conference, Cape Town.

2002:Visual Arts Coordinator/Performer:Clanwilliam: A story is like the wind,University of Cape Town.

2000-2001:Tamarind Master Printer:Tamarind Institute, ALBQ,New Mexico, USA.

1999- 2000:Tamarind Professional Printer Training Program:ALBQ, New Mexico.

1999: Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Woodcut and Lithography, Purchase College, New York.

1998-99:Internship: The Printmaking Workshop, Manhattan, NY.

Exhibitions curated

2007:Women For Children, Museum Room, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town.

2006:Perspectives and the Mapping of Africa,Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.Voices of Women, Cape Town, International Convention Centre,Cape Town.

2005:Every View Counts, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.Out Of Africa,Gauteng Legislature, Johannesburg.Perspectives on and of Africa(all nine provinces), South Africa.Phenomenal Women,Parliament of the Republic of South Africa & Northern Cape Legislature, Kimberley.All Shall Have Equal Rights,Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.

2004:Prints of Perspective,Blue Shed,Waterfront,Cape Town.Every View Counts,Parliament of the Republic of South Africa & Artscape, Cape Town.10 Years of a Democratic Parliament,Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.

2003:History of Cartography in Africa,Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.

Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York.The Printmaking Workshop, Manhattan, New York. Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town.Irma Stern Museum, University of Cape Town.

Publications

2005: Mario Pissarra, Botaki: Exhibition 3, Conversations with Donovan Ward, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town. Mario Pissarra, Botaki: Exhibition 2, Conversations with Sophie Peters, OMAM, Cape Town (exhibition catalogue). Ernestine White,  from Then and Now, Chimurenga vol. 7, July.

2004: Sophie Perryer (ed.) 10 years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell Roberts Publishing, Cape Town.

2003: Picnic (catalogue, exhibition curated by Andrew Lamprecht).

2001: Technical Talk. Tamarind Institute Art on Paper. NY (Jan- Feb; Mar– Apr; and Nov- Dec). Magazine of the Arts (MOA), Purchase College, NY. American Red Cross, Centennial celebration, NY.

Commissions

2006: Artists for Humanity [billboard, Langa, Cape Town]; Coeo Art Collective.

2005: Bell Roberts Gallery [print].

2004: LG Electronics; & Coeo art Collective.

2003: KWV.

Grants & scholarships

2002–2004: Katrine Harries Memorial Bursary and McIver Scholarship, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.

2002: National Research Foundation Grant. University of Cape Town.