BIOGRAPHY
LIZA GROBLER
(b. 1974 Cape Town, South Africa)
Through her artworks, Liza Grobler explores the dialogue between inner and outer landscape. Her installations create dialogues with the spaces in which they are displayed and explore the connections between people, artworks and the world around us. The viewer is encouraged to travel with her into an imaginary world where fact and fiction becomes one. In this world, everything is in flux and anything is possible. The objects, images and installations are constructed through collaboration, interaction and exchange. Gallery exhibitions, projects and interventions are integrated components that cross-reference one another.
Grobler received a MAFA (cum laude) from Stellenbosch University in 1999. She has attended residencies in Norway, Finland, the United States, Mexico, Switzerland, Belgium and France. Her work is included in numerous corporate and private collections, including the Francis Greenberger Collection (USA), Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium), Benetton Collection (Italy) and Nando's International (UK, Australia and USA). To date, she has had thirteen acclaimed solo exhibitions and initiated numerous site-specific and collaborative interventions in South Africa and abroad.
Under patronage of Spier in partnership with Yellowwoods Art.
QUALIFICATIONS
1999 Master’s Degree in Visual Arts (cum laude), Stellenbosch University
1996 Bachelors Degree in Visual Arts, Stellenbosch University
1992 Matriculated with Distinction, DF Malan High School, Bellville
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
If you go down to the woods today, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Playlist, CIRCA Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2013
2012
2010
2009
2007
2005
2004
2003
2002
2000
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Winter Collection, Group Show, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2015
San Juanita Project: Re-examining borders, Haitian American Museum of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Homage, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
Ímago Mundi – Luciano Benetton Collection, Venice, Italy
Nando's Rites and Duties, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa
Decor-Z, Spier Estate, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Constructions, GRID International Photography Biennial, Cape Town, South Africa
Empire, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
Forever Now, at MOMA FOMA, New Media Festival, Tasmania
2014
Open Studios at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
International Union of Architecture World Congress, Durban, South Africa
2013
Chance favours the Connected Mind, collaboration with Barbara Wildenboer, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong
Stellenbosch Revisited, co-curated by Marna Hattingh and Liza Grobler for Die Woordfees, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2012
2011
Open Books, iArt Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Collection 13, SMAC Art Gallery Cape Town, South Africa
2010
The Menippean Uprising, curated by Pierre Fouché and Hentie van der Merwe, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
Frans Masereel Centre Annual Printmaking Show, Kasterlee, Belgium
Twenty Years of South African Sculpture, curated by Andrew Lamprecht, Nirox Sculpture Park, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa
2009
Warren Editions, Monotypes and etchings, at Curious, Whetstone and Frankley, Cape Town, South Africa
2008
Women in Craft, Spier Estate, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2007
South African Art on Paper, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, Australia
TACT, Artspace, Pretoria, South Africa
2006
ROEM, curated by Sandra Hanekom, interactive sculptures for ‘Die Storm’, KKNK, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
Flesh! curated by Chris Diedericks, KKNK, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
the blank paper project as part of Cape 07, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
Just like home in collaboration with Norman O’ Flynn, Solothurn, Switzerland
2006 travelling exhibition, coordinated by Norman O’Flynn, Bell-Roberts Contemporary, Cape Town & Art on Paper, Johannesburg, South Africa
2005
Cape Biennale at blank projects, curated by Andrew Lamprecht, Cape Town, South Africa
The 5th International Florence Biennial for Contemporary Art, Fortezza de Bastilica, Florence, Italy
Synergy, Michaelis Collection contemporary beaded designs- a history of beads in Africa, Iziko Museum, Cape Town
2004
Artomi, New York, USA
The Art of Drawing, Durbanville Cultural Centre, Durbanville, South Africa
2002
2000
YEA-R 2000, Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, South Africa
SELECTED SITE-SPECIFIC PROJECTS
2015
Diary of a Nanosatellite video included in Forever Now - launch of the Golden Record into Deep Space
2014
2013
2012
2010
Imagination: for humans – ‘The Laboratory for Recycled Revolutions, curator: Isa Suarez, Greatmore, Cape Town, South Africa
2009
Gift, a picnic and lace making performance with Pierre Fouché, Cape Town
2007
C-Units, in collaboration with Jeanne Hoffman, Big Bay, South Africa
Icarus project, in collaboration with Norman O’ Flynn, Cape Town, South Africa
2006
Teardrop Project, Solothurn, Switzerland, South Africa
Heritage Cache, a site-specific group project coordinated by Cobus van Bosch and Arlene Amaler-Raviv, Cape Town, South Africa
2005
2004
2003
2002
Music Concrete-YDEsire Art Night, in collaboration with Jeanne Hoffman, the Cape of Good Hope Castle, Cape Town
Fantastic Rubbish, a mixed media installation, World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa
2001
Forest Cross, Dalsãsen forest, Norway
1999
ART FAIRS
Den Fair, Otomys Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015
Turbine Art Fair, CIRCA Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012
2010
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2016
2015
Short-listed for Headlands Centre Residency, San Francisco
Residency at Guapamacátaro Center for Art & Ecology, Maravatio, Mexico
Site-specific commission for Nando's US, Chicago
Social Fabric SA Residency in Port Elizabeth, SAMIL
2014
2013
2010
2009
2006
Short-listed for Commonwealth Arts and Craft Award
2005
Selected for 3rd Brett Kebble Art Competition
2004
2003-4
2002
2001
TERTIARY TEACHING
2008 – 2013
2009-2010
2007-2008
2005
2001, 2009
COLLECTIONS
Work included in the following corporate collections: Hollard (Insurance), Nando's UK, Nando's US , Nando's SA, Spier (South Africa), Frans Masereel Centre (Belgium), Francis Greenberger Collection US, City of Cape Town, Luciano Benetton Collection (Italy) and in private collections in South Africa, France, Switzerland, America, Mexico, Spain, Germany, England and Norway.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2016
2015
2015
2014
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