DINEO SESHEE BOPAPE  (1981, Durban, South Africa)

Studies – Residency

2008-2010 Colombia University, MFA in New Genres, New York (USA)

2008 Thami Mnyele, Amsterdam (NL) - 3 months residency program

2005-2007 de Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL)

2005 Participating in an arts and culture management learnership, facilitated by Karen Isaac and Associates

2004 Bachelors Technology Degree, Cum Laude, in Fine Arts, Durban Institute of Technology, Durban (ZA)

2002 National Diploma in Fine Arts [painting and sculpture], Durban Institute of Technology, Durban (ZA)

Solo Exhibitions

2010 'Long live the immaterial....effect no.55, Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam

2010 ‘The eclipse will not be visible to the naked eye’ Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town (ZA)

2010 ‘I like to remember things on my own’ Annarumma303, Napels (I)

2009 ‘You fucking horrible bitch!’, Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)

2009 ARCO 09 Madrid (ESP), solo presentation by Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam, curated by Susanne Neubauer

2008 ‘Love Strung’, KZNSA Gallery, Durban (ZA)‘It’s A Celebration Bitches!!!’ open studio, Thami Mnyele Studio, Amsterdam (NL)

2008 ‘Non in Mind’, Art Rotterdam, presentation by Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)

2007 ‘Non in Mind (fictions unending) dream weaver and other stories’, Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)

2005 ‘Keep it to yourself’, KZNSA Gallery, Durban (ZA)

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2010 'They act as lovers: microwave cosmic background’ Columbia University thesis show at Fisher-Landau Center, NY (USA)My voice, my weapon of choice, duo show with Caner Aslan, Kasa Galeri, Istanbul (TUR)

2009 Projects, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town (ZA)‘Life Less Ordinary’, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham (UK)‘Identity: an imagined state’, Center for Contemporary Art Logas, Lagos (NGA)‘An exploration of the Southern African Geography’, travelling exhibition along five art spaces, (ZA)‘Borderline Pleasure’, Galerie Michael Jansen, Berlin (DEU)‘Under Construction’, Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)‘April Meetings Festivals’, Belgrade (SRB), curated by Gabrijel Savic Ra‘Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1969-2009’, Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem (NL)‘The Generational: Younger than Jesus’, New Museum, New York (USA), curated by Lauren Cornell, Massimiliano Gioni, and Laura Hoptman‘I want to be famous’, MOBA/NOMAD Gallery, Brussel (BEL)‘Multipistes’, Mnr De Wit Gallery, Amsterdam (NL), curated by Elvira Dyangani-Ose‘The Thami Mnyele and Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective Exhibition’, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg (ZA), curated by Khwezi Gule‘Postcards Beyond the Edge’, International Documentary Film Festival, Donegal (IRL)‘Beauty and Pleasure’, South African Contemprary Art-The Stenersen Museum, Oslo (NOR)‘Purchases’, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem (NL)

2008 ‘Delight’, Arti Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)‘Scratching the Surface’ l’apartment 22, Rabat (MAR), curated by Manje Manje‘Scratching the Surface vol.1’, AVA Gallery, Cape Town (ZA), curated by Gabi Ngcobo and Mwenya Kabwe of ‘ManjeManje’‘Cutt the cake’, Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)FLOW’, Studio Museum Harlem, New York (USA)‘A terrain Vague’, Casa Africa, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ESP)‘In Transition Russia 2008’, National Center for Contemporary Art,Moscow (RUS), curated by Helene Black‘Disguise’, Micheal Steavenson Gallery, Cape Town (ZA)ZA young art from South Africa, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena (ITA)‘Zam Magazine Launch Show’, gallery Meneer deWit, Amsterdam (NL)‘Joburg art fair’, represented by KZNSA gallery, Johannesburg (ZA)‘MTN New Contemporaries Award show 2008’, UJ Gallery, Johannesburg (ZA), curated by Melissa Mboweni‘Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body’, Davis Museum – Wellesley College, Wellesley (USA)

2007 ‘Cape 07’, Cape town (ZA), curated by Gabi Ngcobo‘Off-spring’, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL), curated by Maxine Kopsa‘To a new common place’, Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)

2006 ‘New Painting: a group exhibition of recent South African art’, KZNSA Gallery, Durban (SA) (and traveling), curated by Storm Janse Van Rensburg‘Shared history/decolonizing the image’, W139, Amsterdam (NL), curated by Sophie Berrebi and Delphine Bedel‘De Grote Oversteek’, Stedelijk Museum, Zwolle (NL)‘Rotterdam Film Festival: Hotspots Johanessburg: Post Whites Only…’, Off-Corso, Rotterdam (NL), curated by Aryan Kaganoff‘Duo Show: Dineo Bopape and Thulani Shongwe’, Gallery 23, Amsterdam (NL)

2005 ‘Urban twothousandandfive: Five Urban Women's stories’, African Art Centre, Durban (ZA)‘In the making: material and process in South African Art’, Micheal Steavenson Gallery, Cape Town (ZA), curated by Sophie Peryer ‘Orientations and Illusions’, prog:ME, Rio de Janeiro (BRA), curated by Miguel Petchkovsky‘Start: The Nivea Art Award’, KZNSA Gallery, Durban (ZA)'Positive: AIDS in 2005’, Durban Art Gallery, Durban (ZA), curated by Carol Brown‘Paperworks, Art on paper exhibition’, KZNSA Gallery, Durban (ZA)‘Red Eye ‘Rouge’’, Durban Art Gallery, Durban (ZA)‘ABSA de Ateliers Finalists’, Alliance Francaise, Durban (ZA)

2004 ‘Tangencya’, Durban (ZA), curated by Miguel Petchkovsky and Andries Botha: 2004-2005‘Women's Day -Imvubelo 2004’, Durban Art Gallery, Durban (ZA)‘Rejected-Abangafuneki’, KZNSA Gallery, Durban (ZA)‘WeAreHere: Interactive women's workshop and exhibition’, BAT Center, Durban (ZA)‘Instill-Independent New Media Installations for selection of the Brett Kebble Art Awards – show, St.Mary’s Church, Cape Town (ZA)Amnesty International –“International Women’s Day Workshop”, Indian Documentation Centre, Durban (ZA)‘Crimes of Passion’, Bean Bag Bohemia, Durban (ZA)

2003 ‘BAT Center Christmas Show’, Bat Center Gallery, Durban (ZA)‘Samp and Beans’, Bean Bag Bohemia, Durban (ZA)‘Women’s Day workshop/exhibition with performance’, Visual & Commercial artists- BAT Center, Durban (ZA)‘THWASA- 3rd Eye initiative Exhibition’, KZNSA, Durban (ZA)‘My life as a reflection of other women’s lives in south Africa’, Women's day exhibition, Durban Art Gallery, Durban (ZA)‘Awakenings’ Courtyard Theatre, Durban Institute of Technology, Durban (ZA)

Awards and Prizes

2008 MTN New Contemporaries Award South Africa

2004 Merit Award Durban Institute of Technology: B.tech Fine Arts highest aggregate, Durban (ZA)‘Best artwork prize’ Church Youth Arts Show/Festival, Umlazi, Durban (ZA)

2002 Durban Institute of Technology 2nd yr. fine arts drawing prize, Durban (ZA)

2001 Durban Institute of Technology 1st yr fine arts 2d work prize (painting, printing and drawing), Durban (ZA)

1998 Arts Prize, Grade 11, Durban Girls’ College, Durban (ZA)

Assignments / Project Participation

2008 Collaborative TV performance with Azwi Magoro for “Head Wrap”, Cape Town (ZA)

2007 ‘Light Touch’, performance with Zulile Blinker and Randall Trumpet , “60 jaar out” street festival, Rotterdam (NL)

2006 ‘Afrofuturisms Arts symposium/festival’, Wellesley College, Wellesley (USA)‘YOUNG ARTIST’S PROJECT 2005/6 CONFERENCE/SYMPOSIUM’, KZNSA Gallery, Durban (ZA)

2005 ‘Five Urban Women’, African Art Centre, Durban (ZA)‘Durban Fashion Week’, character model for designer Collen Eitzen, Durban (ZA)‘Being Here’, co-curating, KZNSA, Durban (ZA)‘Velobala’, March- June: teaching drawing (part-time) through African Art Centre, Durban (ZA) (Saturday classes)‘Tangencya’, participating artist, Durban (ZA)

2004 ‘Art For Humanity’/’Move Your World’, South Africa / Netherlands mural exchange project ‘PULSE project’, assistant to artist

Selected Publications

2009 ‘Kosmopolitische groeibriljant’, ZAM, Africa Magazine, written by Daphne Pappers‘Dineo’s Menagerie’, ARTslant, written by Andrea Alessi‘South Africa Now’ written by Sue Williamson‘Rebelle’ [cat.], Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem (NL)‘Younger than Jesus’ [cat.], New Museum, New York (USA)‘Beauty and Pleasure’ [cat.], South African Contemprary Art-The Stenersen Museum, Oslo (NOR)‘Under construction I, Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam, May - June 2009Circa Art Magazine, written by Paul Casey Detritus and Drawings: The Art of Dineo Seshee BopapeBrooklyn Rail, written by Kathleen Massara‘An unsaid thing that just hangs’, Art South Africa, written by Gideon Unkeless‘DOUG MCCLEMONT ON YOUNGER THAN JESUS, THE NEW MUSEUM, NEW YORK’, Saatchi-Gallery online, written by Doug McClemont‘JESUS COMPLEX’, Artnet, written by Ben Davis

2008 ‘In Transition Russia 2008’ [cat.], NEME , Moscow (RUS)‘ZA young art from South Africa’ [cat.], Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena (ITA)‘Disguise’ [cat.], Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town (ZA)‘Stephen Hobbs, Dineo Bopape and Johan Thom at the KZNSA Gallery’, Artthrob, written by Carol Brown‘Dineo, artbio’, Artthrob, written by Tavish McIntosh‘Cape 07’, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, written by Tavish McIntosh‘Interview with Dineo Bopape’, KZNSA Gallery, written by Peter Machen Het dagelijkse Afrikaanse leven in absurde vorm, newspaper Parool, written by Kees Keijer‘MTN New Contemporaries’ Art South Africa, written by Alexander Opper‘Handshakes & Envelopes’, Art South Africa‘Hobbs & Bopape’ Art South Africa, written by Melissa McCarthy‘Interview with MTN new contemporaries award curator Melissa Mboweni and winner Dineo Bopape' Arttrob, written by Cara Snyman ‘.za: Young Art from South Africa’,Artforum, written by Emily Verla Bovino

2007 ‘In search of the radical other’, research article, written by Francis Burger‘Cape '07: Less is More, more or less’, Arttrob, written by Bettina Malcolmess‘Offspring 2007’, [cat.] De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL)

2006 ‘Young Artist’s Project 2005/6’ [cat.], KZNSA Gallery, Durban (ZA)‘Geheimen ontrafeld’, Galerie 23, written by Rob Perrée ‘De grote oversteek’ [cat.], Stedelijk Museum Zwolle, Zwolle (NL)

2005 ‘In the making: material and process in South African Art’, [cat.] Micheal Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town (ZA)‘In the making’, Art South Africa, written by Hazel Friedman‘Kwazulu Natal Society Of The Arts: A Community of Artists’, [cat.] KZNSA “YAP 2005/6”‘Keep it to yourself’, [cat.] KZNSA Gallery, written by Rike Sitas

2004 Bright young things’, Art South Africa, written by Storm Van Rensburg