Simphiwe Ndzube

Born 1990, South Africa
Lives and works in Los Angeles and Cape Town

Education

2015 BAFA, Michaelis School of Fine Arts, University of Cape Town, South Africa 2010 Peter Clarke Art Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

Solo Exhibitions

2022 Isithunywa so Moya | A Messenger of the Spirit, Nicodim Upstairs, Los Angeles Masemola Road, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town

2021 Vusamazulu | Awakening the Heavens, Nicodim, New York Oracles of the Pink Universe, Denver Art Museum, Colorado Like the Snake that Fed the Chameleon, Nicodim, Los Angeles

2020 The Fantastic Ride to Gwadana, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg New Works on Paper, Stevenson Gallery, Amsterdam

2019 In the Order of Elephants After the Rain, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest The Rain Prayers, Museo Kaluz, Mexico City
Uncharted Lands and Trackless Seas, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town

2018 Waiting for Mulungu, CC Foundation, Shanghai
Simphiwe Ndzube: Dancing into Form, Harper’s Books, New York

2017 Bhabharosi, Nicodim, Los Angeles
2016 Becoming, WHATIFTHEWWORLD Gallery, Cape Town 2015 Imithungo Yezivubeko, Michaelis School of Arts, Cape Town

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 California Biennial 2022: Pacific Gold, Orange Country Museum of Art, Costa Mesa Where do I begin, Stevenson, Cape Town
Contemporary African Art, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs

2021 What Do You See, You People, Gazing at Me, Sadie Coles, London In Some Form or Fashion, The Momentary Museum, Bentonville 021 - 2021, Stevenson Gallery, Amsterdam
Shattered Glass, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles

Lineages: Works from the Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale

Collective Interventions, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville my whole body changed into something else, Stevenson Gallery, Capetown

2020 Witness: Afro-Perspectives from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami
INXS: Never Before Seen Major Works by Simphiwe Ndzube, Moffat Takadiwa, Zhou Yilun, Nicodim, Los Angeles
A Fair Share of Utopia, The Nest, The Haag, The Netherlands
Hollywood Babylon, Nicodim Los Angeles, AUTRE Magazine, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles New Beginnings, Nicodim, Los Angeles
Podium, 181 Fremont, San Francisco
The Pearl, RAMP Gallery, London
SITE: Art and Architecture in the Digital Space, Library Street Project, Detroit
Pineal Eye Infection, curated by Aaron Moulton, Seasons, Los Angeles

2019 Where Water Comes Together With Other Water, The 15th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon

Trans World, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest
Trans World, Nicodim, Los Angeles
People, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles
Filling in the Gaps, Izoko South African National Gallery, Cape Town Simphiwe Ndzube, Navid Nuur, Sara Rahbar, Gazelli Art House, Azerbaijan Open Borders, 14th Curitiba International Biennial, Brazil

2018 Experiences of Tonality in the Véronique Susman-Savigne Collection, Norval Foundation, Cape Town

Empathy: Beneath the Surface, California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks, Los Angeles New Acquisitions, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Noise! Frans Hals, Otherwise, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
Hacer Noche, Various Locations, Oaxaca

9 More Weeks, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg
Defying the Narrative: Contemporary Art from West and Southern Africa, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco
Both, and, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
The Adderall and the Ecstasy, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest
The Eye Sees Not Itself, Nicodim, Los Angeles
Indulge, Art Movement, Los Angeles

2017 Son of Mr. Green Genes, BBQLA, Los Angeles
Homeward Bound, Nicodim, Los Angeles
The Hierophant, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest
A Flagrant Arcade in Contemporary Art, Curated Art Africa Fair, Cape Town Colour Chart, EBONY/CURATED, Cape Town

2016 Our Lady + Women’s Work, South African National Gallery, Cape Town Dear Eurpoa, Whatiftheworld Gallery, Cape Town
The Art of Disruptions, South African National Gallery
Summer Show, Ebony Gallery, Cape Town

#TheOpening, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town
2015 Pouring Ours Secretes, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, Cape Town

Kasi-2-kasi Public Arts Festival / Remaking Place, Gordon Institute for Centre and Creative Arts, Cape Town
Barclays L’AtelierWestern Cape Regional Exhibition, Rust En Vrede Gallery, Cape Town
“But he doen’t have anything on!”, Commune1 Gallery, Cape Town

2014 Emergence, Ebony Gallery, Cape Town
Art of objects byartist, The Studio Kalk Bay Gallery, Kalk Bay
Newcastle Arts Festival, curated by Nkule Mabaso, Durban & Malawi Re-visiting Sites, curated by Khanyisile Mbongwa, The Hostel, Cape Town

2011 Vuleka Art Competition selection, Art-B Gallery, Bellville
2010 See, Create Exhibition, Iziko South African National Gallery Annexe, Cape Town

Peter Clarke and Friends, Frank Joubert Art Centre, Cape Town
2009 The rights of a child, Iziko National Gallery Annexe & Jewish Museum, Cape Town

Selected Public and Private Collections

A4 Foundation, Cape Town
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Miami
CC Foundation, Shanghai
Christen Sveeas Collection, Norway
Dangxia Foundation
Denver Art Museum, Denver
Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Geneva
HOW Art Museum, Shanghai
Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Museo Kaluz, Mexico City
Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale
Pérez Art Museum, Miami
Pond Society
Rubell Museum, Miami
Rupert Museum, Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Yuz Museum, Shangai
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town

Residencies

Greatmore Artist Residency Studios, Woodstock, Cape Town Dalton Warehouse, South Central, Los Angeles

Awards

2019 Culture Creators Annual ‘Innovators & Leaders’ Award 2016 Tollman Award for the Visual Arts
2015 Michaelis Prize Winner, Michaelis School of Fine Art

Simon Gerson Prize
2013 Cecil Skotnes Scholarship

Simphiwe Ndzube

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