Sonya Rademeyer

Sonya Rademeyer

b. Zimbabwe, 1964. Lives in Cape Town

Rademeyer explores the relationship between bodily empathy and vision through her use of non-traditional materials and video.

 

Gallery

One body /Two carers
Our collective pain/ Our reality
Lena
Book of breathing
From the Body series
I hear / We hear / You hear [detail]
Spiral time
Me You
I am an African
Swimming me [installation view]
Babble
I see / The green lady / Sees

Curriculum Vitae

Art Education

2010: MA(VA) Stellenbosch University (currently registered).
1996: BA (FA) Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam.

Exhibitions (sol0)

2011: Looking to See, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2009: not in a body of words, US Gallery, Stellenbosch.
2008: I am an African, Blank Projects, Cape Town.
2007: Babble, AVA, Cape Town.
2005: Origin, art-B Gallery, Bellville, Cape Town.

Exhibitions (group)

2010: Mother Nature: Art and Psychology in Conversation, Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
2009: Ceramics Exhibition, William Humphrey Art Gallery, Kimberley, South Africa.
2007: Flesh, KKNK. X-Cape 07, Cape Town. South African Short Films, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown. Cultivaria Festival, Paarl, South Africa.
2006: Dept of Science & Technology National Art Competition. Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town.
2005: Vuleka, Art-B Gallery, Bellville. Brett Kebble Art Awards, Cape Town.
2004: Exfoliate, Art-B Gallery, Bellville. Vuleka, Art-B Gallery, Bellville, Cape Town.
2003: AVA Members Exhibition, AVA Gallery. Brett Kebble Art Awards. Vuleka, Art-B Gallery, Bellville, Cape Town. PPC Young Sculptors Awards, Pretoria, South Africa.
2001: Women’s Work, Kalk Bay, Cape Town.
1998: Unity in Diversity Arts Festival, Good Hope Gallery, Cape Town.
Exhibitions (international)

2009: Tape exhibition, Arnhem, Netherlands. 1st International Art & Science Festival, Patra, Greece. International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Korea. One World–Many Papers, Distillery Gallery, Boston, USA.
2008: Dwayer, L’Atelier D’ Alexandrie, Egypt. Dak’Art Biennale, Senegal.
2007: Cent livre–Objects pour Senghor, Maison de la Culture Douta Seck, Dakar Senegal. Selfportrait-a show for Bethlehem, Museo Arte Contemporaneo, Sante Fe, Argentina; International Contemporary Art Center, Naples; MACRO–Museum of Contemporary Art Rosario, Argentina; Muzeul de Artã Satu Mare, Romania.
2006: The Abstract Mind Mural, Chicago, USA. Too much Freedom? Freewaves, 10th Biennale Festival of Film, Video and Experimental Media, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem, Al Kahf Gallery, Palestine. Oficyna Art Space Szezecin and Museum of Swinoujcie, Poland. Ecartista 1st Annual Exhibition (online), Egypt.
2005: Imagining the Book International Biennale, Egypt. NY International Independent Film and Video Festival, New York. A Cross Cultural View of Women in the Arts, Chicago. Art at War Exhibition, Castillo Gallery, USA.
Private Collections South Africa. United Kingdom. Egypt.
Public Collections

Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt.

Dept of Science & Technology, South Africa.

International Contemporary Art Centre, Naples, Italy.

Awards

2007: Distinction, 3rd Edition International Artistic

Documentaries.

2004: Winner New Media, Vuleka.

2003: Merit Award, PPC Young Sculptor Award.

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