BIOGRAPHY
LYNDI SALES
(b. 1972 Cape Town, South Africa )
Sales' new body of work exists at the interface of art and rationalism, reason and wonder. Working with hand-woven textiles, sculptural installation and collage, she uses the “basic building blocks of the universe” as a departure point for her artistic enquiry.
Whilst located in a scientific register – an interrogation of the properties of light or the cold crystalline structure of chemicals – this original departure point is refracted through the lens of art and infused with a deeply personal aesthetic sensibility. Conceived symbiotically, Sales' surprising melding of art and science take on new and curious configurations. For Sales, it is wonder that binds art and science in mutually beneficial exchange.
Lyndi Sales is based in Cape Town. She has been creating a series of installations and artworks for the past sixteen years. Her constructions made of intricately cut perspex, paper, rubber, fabric and stone often shed light on the fragile nature of our existence and temporality. She has held solo shows internationally at Galerie Maria Lund in Paris, Toomey Tourell in San Francisco and M Contemporary in Sydney – and locally in South Africa at the Goodman Gallery, the Everard Read and Whatiftheworld galleries. She has participated in numerous group shows in South Africa, the USA, Austria, the UK, Holland, Germany, Denmark and Australia. Her works can be found in major collections locally and internationally.
Sales has taught as a visiting lecturer at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town and at the University of Stellenbosch. Sales represented South Africa at the 2011 Venice Biennale. She was a merit award winner in the ABSA Atelier Awards, a recipient of the Vermont Studio Center grant and has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center as well as the Frans Masereel Center in Belgium.
QUALIFICATIONS
Graduated from University of Cape Town (BA.FA) with distinction in 1995
Graduated from University of Cape Town (MA.FA) with distinction in 2000
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
New Works, Circa Gallery Everard Read, Johannesburg
New Works, Cat street Gallery, Hong Kong
2015
No Place, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town
Featured Artist, Gallery Maria Lund, Paris Art Fair, Paris
2014
DSS2, Circa Gallery Everard Read, Johannesburg
Praeternatural Light, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris
2013
Levitate, M contemporary, Sydney
2012
Deep Sky Survey, Whatiftheworld Gallery, Cape Town
Apperception, Toomey Tourell, San Francisco
2011
Passive Surveillance, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris
2010
Blur Zone, Gallery Momo, Johannesburg
Astronomical Seeing, Sarah Khan Contemporary, Lichtenstein
Solo show, Galerie Sylvia Bernhardt, Germany
2009
in transit, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco
in transit, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris
2008
TRANSIenT, Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
2007
1 in 11 000 000 Chances & works at the
Dieu Donne Papermill NY , Gallery Momo, Johannesburg
2006
1 in 11 000 000 Chances, Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
2003
Anomaly, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
2001
Ancestral Journeys, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
Ancestral Journeys, Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town
1996
Circus, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS AND ART FAIRS
2017
Southern Abstraction, Everard Read, London.
Spectrum, CIRCA, Johannesburg
2016
Hong Kong Art Fair, MContemporary, Sydney
2015
Lyndi Sales & Larry Bell, Art Miami New York , Toomey Tourell
Bronxe Steel and Stone, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
JHB Art Fair, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
Dubai Art Fair, Whatiftheworld Gallery Dubai
2014
I take it all back, Nirox projects, Arts on Main, Johannesburg
JHB Art Fair, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
Cape Town Art Fair Featured artist, Cape Town
2013
Shimmerings- Artists unearth light, Cavalie, Stellenbosch
Wonderworks, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
Curated show, Sydney Art Fair, Sydney
2012
Outside the Lines, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town
Archipelago, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris
Positive Tension, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town
2011
VENICE BIENNALE, South Africa Pavilion « Desire: Ideal
Narratives in Contemporary South African Art », Venice
GIVE ME SIX, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris
Manet’s too tight to mention, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town
ART ON PAPER - Brussels drawing fair, with Galerie Maria Lund, Brussels
SLICK 11 Artist Projects, Palais de Tokyo and the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
DRAWING NOW - Le salon du dessin contemporain, with Galerie Maria Lund, Paris
Toomey Tourell, Miami Basel, Miami
Threshold, Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town
A Natural Selection 1991 - 2011, AVA, Cape Town
2010
accrochage, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris
CHIC Dessin, Paris
2009
At the end of the Rainbow, Bie& Vadstrup, Copenhagen, Denmark
Group show, KKNK, Oudtshoorn
Print, The South African Print Gallery, Cape Town
DESSIN – AFFIRMATIF! new works on paper, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris
Group show, Gallery Momo, Johannesburg
2008
Holland Paper Biennale, Museum Rijswijk, Holland
Between meaning and Matter, Bell-Roberts, Gallery Cape Town
Print'08, Bell- Roberts Cape Town
Intervention, UNISA Gallery, Pretoria
2007
Spier Contemporary, Spier Estate, Stellenbosch
Turbulence, Hangar-7 Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
South Africa on paper, GBK Gallery, Sydney, Australia
14th Tallinn Print triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
Rich and Strange, Newport, UK
Critics Choice, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
Greenhouse, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Somerset West
ABSA L’Atelier, Johannesburg2006
20 Artists 06. Contemporary printing, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
Group show of prints, Art on Paper, Johannesburg
ABSA L’Atelier, Johannesburg
2005
Finding you, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
2004
Pulp, Bellville Art Association, Cape Town
Miniatures, Art on Paper Gallery, Johannesburg
ABSA L’Atelier, Johannesburg
2003
YDESIRE, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
ABSA L’Atelier, Johannesburg
2002
Book Arts, Pensacola Museum of Art, USA
Hoerikwaggo, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
2000
Soft Serve, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
1999
Postcards from South Africa, Axis Gallery, New York
1998
Printexchange, Print conference, Grahamstown
4th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Kotchi, Japan
1997
London Printmakers Council, London, United Kingdom
1996
London Print Workshop, London, United Kingdom
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
2011
54th Venice Biennale, South African Pavillion
2008
Selected to participate in the 2008 Holland Paper Biennale
2007
Merit award: 2007 ABSA L’Atelier
Recipient of the Vermont Studio Centre residency fellowship, USA
Awarded the PARTage residency in Mauritius
Selected to participate in the 2008 Spier Contemporary Competition
2006
Top ten finalist ABSA L’Atelier
2003
Top ten finalist ABSA L’Atelier
1996
Winner of the 1996 London Print Workshop
1995
Winner of the Amateurs graphics award, Bellville Art Association, Cape Town
1991
Merit winner: Sanlam
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, USA
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C, USA
New York Public Library, USA
University of Northern Illinois, Dekalb, USA
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Red Bull, Austria
FMT, Austria
French bank La Société Générale
ABSA, Ernst and Young, Eskom, Hollard, Santam, Sasol, Deneys Reitz
South African Breweries, Telkom, Nando, University of Cape Town, University of South Africa,
Standard Bank and South African National Gallery,
Jack Ginsberg artist book collection, South Africa
Various private collections locally and abroad
