Kathryn Smith Born 1975, Durban, South Africa. Lives and works in Cape Town and Stellenbosch, South Africa Represented by Goodman Gallery About My practice operates at the interface between studio work, curatorial projects and scholarly research. My studio work is informed by forensic aesthetics and criminography, modernity and the uncanny, body doubles and secret histories, incorporating camera-based media, psychogeographic strategies, installation and performance. My scholarly and curatorial projects are focused on developing the histories and discourses of historical avant-garde and experimental/radical practices in South Africa in relation to contemporary practice, with particular focus on new media, dialogical/situated practices and performance. |  |
the lowercase | in process
Trauma Diorama: The Quarry | 2009
In Camera | 2007
Euphemism | 2004
Jack in Johannesburg | 2003
Dada South? (with Roger van Wyk), Iziko South African National Gallery | 2009-2010
Bad Form: Things and Stuff (with Christian Nerf and Francis Burger) for blank projects at the Joburg Art Fair | 2009
Curatorial correspondent for Revolutions – Forms that Turn | 2008 Biennale of Sydney)
Curatorial correspondent for T1 - Torino Triennale Treimusei | 2005
MTN New Contemporaries | 2003
body: rest & motion and body II: sublimation, an exhibition in two parts | 2001, 2002
Two Icons: the atom, the body (with James Sey) | 2000
Histories of the Present | 1998
Selected publishing projects
One Million and Forty-Four years (and Sixty Three Days) | SMAC Gallery, 2007
Sam Nhlengethwa | Goodman Gallery Editions, 2006
Penny Siopis | Goodman Gallery Editions, 2005
In Brief
Established serialworks | July 2009
Deputy chair, VANSA Western Cape
Senior lecturer, Department of Visual Arts, University of Stellenbosch | since 2006
Ampersand Foundation Fellow | 2005
Standard Bank Young Artist Award | 2004
Founding member of the Trinity Session | 2000
Founding member of The Premises project room | 2001-2002
Sasol New Signatures award | 1999
MAFA (distinction), University of the Witwatersrand, 1999
BAFA (distinction), University of the Witwatersrand, 1997
