(b. 1976 Vryheid, South Africa)

Rina Stutzer is a full-time practicing artist investigating the didactive qualities of nature and is currently developing a body of work for a solo exhibition at Everard Read Gallery. In 2021 she Initiated Curious Little Press (CLP) print studio, where working adjacent a fundi printer, offers artists the opportunity to explore and develop techniques across a variety of fine-art printmaking mediums. Furthermore, she is completing her formal field guide training at FGASA (Field Guide Association South Africa) and stands as creative advisor to the artistic collective at Dionysus Sculpture Works (DSW) in Pretoria, where she holds a studio.

By contemplating the attainability of nature, her professional endeavors are informed by comprehending the ephemeral aspects of the natural world. This reflective approach guides her work toward gaining a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness between humanity and the environment. Stutzer (1976) is a graduate of the University of Pretoria, completing her BAFA in 1999 and her MA(FA) (with distinction) in 2007, whereafter she became a part-time lecturer in the Department of Visual Art. During her art practice she have been commended with several honors including the SASOL New Signatures Art Competition: People’s Choice Award (1999) and the Ekurhuleni Fine Arts Award Competition (2007). She was also awarded a bursary in France as prize for theRendezvous: Focus Painting Competition in 2012 and received the overall Best Artistic Design for 3CR12 Stainless Steel construction from SASDA (2014).

In addition to receiving several bursaries and invited to various residencies, she has participated since 2000 in solo and group exhibitions in South Africa, as well as in Great Britain, France, Australia, India, Italy, Switzerland and in the Netherlands.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS

2024

RMB Latitudes Art Fair, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
Annual members exhibition, Association of Arts, Pretoria

2023

Shifting focus, group exhibition, Student Gallery, University of Pretoria

Feathered friends, group exhibition, Association of Arts, Pretoria

Annual members exhibition, Association of Arts, Pretoria

Groot voël, group exhibition, Trent Gallery, Pretoria

Art Angels charity auction, Ellerman House, Cape Town

2022

A parallel world of slowness and light (after Tswalu), solo exhibition, Everard Read
Gallery, Johannesburg

Angus Taylor & Rina Stutzer Tswalu Exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg

Things I’d like to remember, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2021

Transitory Terrain, South African women group show, Everard Read, London

FNB Joburg Art Fair, Everard Read, Johannesburg

AIR Program (Artist in Residency) at Tswalu Kalahari Reserve (6 months)

Initiated DSW Press print studio at the DSW Studio and Foundry, Pretoria, Gauteng

2020

PINK, Joburg Art Fair, Everard Read, Johannesburg

Still Alive, Everard Read, Cape Town & Joburg & London

Tiny 2020, Everard Read, Johannesburg

2019

Birds, group exhibition, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery + Clay Museum, Cape Town

Art Angels charity art auction, Ellerman House, Cape Town

Holderstebolder, public commission sculpture installation, under team DSW, Noida,

Uttar Pradesh, India

2018

There is no Time like the Present, public commission with team DSW, Mall of Africa,

Waterfall City, Midrand

FNB Joburg Art Fair, with Everard Read, Johannesburg

Saronsberg Second Take, group exhibition, Tulbagh

A Beautiful Mind Charity Auction, Diep in die Berg, Pretoria

Winter, group exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town

Tacit, group exhibition of DSW studio affiliated artists, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein

In the Forests of the Night, group exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg 

Annual members’ exhibition, Association of Arts, Pretoria

2017

Bronze, Steel and Stone, group exhibition, Everard Read, London

Winter, group exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town

Tacit, group exhibition of DSW studio affiliated artists, Pretoria Art Museum Art

Angels Africa, St Martin’s Lane, London

2016

Reporting from the Front - Biennale Architettura 2016, South African Pavilion, Venice, Italy

Gallery launch, group exhibition, Everard Read, London

Merely This and Nothing More, solo exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg

Dionysus’s Feast, sound sculpture collaboration, Tacit, NWU Gallery, Potchefstroom; Johannesburg; William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley

Cool Capital Saadjies Project, Venice/Pretoria/Richmond/Potchefstroom/Stellenbosch

FNB Johannesburg Art Fair, Everard Read, Johannesburg

Art Angels art auction, Ellerman House, Cape Town

2015

Map of the New Art, group exhibition, Imago Mundi, Luciano Bennetton Collection, Isola di

San Giorgio Maggiore, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy

Bronze, Steel and Stone, group exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg 

Monologue, curated by Meredith Randall, Aardklop National Arts festival, Potchefstroom

outoftheCUBE’s SA Art Print exhibition

20th Grenchen Print Triennial, Switzerland

2014

Pinned Transitory, installation, Nirox Winter Fair, Nirox Sculpture Park, Gauteng

Still, Johans Borman Fine Art, Cape Town

What Lies Beneath, Equus Gallery, Cavalli Estate, Franschhoek

Guild International Design Fair, Look Out, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town

Sway, permanent installation, Everard Read, Johannesburg

Dionysus Sculpture Works’ biannual exhibition, Grande Provence,

Franschhoek Nature, Sophie Lalonde Art, Gabarone, Botswana

Cool Capital DIY Biennale, public art exhibition, Pretoria

Morfform, Fried gallery, Pretoria

Syncopation, DSW group show, Aardklop, Potchefstroom

Art Angels Auction, Ellerman House, Cape Town

2013

Sydney Art Fair, with Everard Read, Australia

Joburg Art Fair, with Everard Read, Johannesburg

Centenary, group exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg

Vaspen / Pegdown, two person show, IS Art, Franschhoek

South Africa, group show, Gallery Vivienne, Paris, France

Tom Waits for No Man, group show (curated by Gordon Fraud), University of Johannesburg, Grande Provence & KKNK

Hiernamaals/Hereafter, Woordfees, Slee Gallery, Stellenbosch

Dionysus Sculpture Works biannual exhibition, Arts Association, Pretoria

Engage, World Art Day group show, Arts Association, Pretoria

WWF Auction, Circa, Johannesburg

Art Angels auction, Ellerman House, Cape Town

2012

For the Time Being, solo exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg 

Art Fair India, with Everard Read, Delhi

Joburg Art Fair, with Everard Read Johannesburg

Designs of Nature, Fried Contemporary group show, KKNK, Oudtshoorn

Winter exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg

Art Angels Auction, Ellerman House, Cape Town

2011

Die Opbou van Afbreek, Aardklop, North-West University Gallery, Potchefstroom (solo)

20 Stellenbosch: Two Decades of South African Sculpture, A Public Sculpture

Exhibition, Stellenbosch

Friend – Request – Sent, The Cube, Bussum, Amsterdam

Dislodge/Loswikkel, University of Johannesburg Gallery (two person exhibition)

Rendezvous: Focus Painting, Michaelis Gallery, Oliewenhuis Art Museum; University of

Johannesburg Gallery; North-West University Gallery

Horse, Everard Read, Johannesburg

Designs of Nature, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria

Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg (Everard Read)

Landscape, Oude Libertas, Stellenbosch

2010

An Accumulation of Change, solo exhibition, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg

Joburg Art Fair, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg

2009

Collaboration, Reservoir Gallery, Oliewenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein 

Joburg Art Fair, with Rooke Gallery, Johannesburg

2008

Visuality/Commentary, Visual Arts Centenary Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum

2007

Medium Re-pulse, solo exhibition, University of Pretoria 

Contemporary Visions of Southern Africa, Pretoria Art Museum

 

RESIDENCIES

2013

Nirox Foundation and Sculpture Park, Cradle of Mankind, Gauteng (October)

Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (July)

2019

Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (December)

2021- 2022

Tswalu, AIR program, Northern Cape, South Africa

 

AWARDS 

1996 - 1999

University of Pretoria, Fine Arts Department – top student

1999

Bettie Cilliers-Barnard Bursary - painting excellence award

New Signatures Art Competition - People’s Choice Award

2007

MA(FA) degree, painting major – distinction in painting

Ekurhuleni National Fine Arts Award Competition - first prize

2012

Rendezvous Focus Painting Competition, a Bettie Cilliers-Barnard Bursary –

first prize (award includes a working residency in France in 2013)

2014

Awarded overall Best Artistic Design for 3CR12 Stainless Steel construction

from SASDA for the permanent installation ‘Sway’ at Everard Read Gallery,

Johannesburg

 

TEACHING

2000-11

Part-time lecturer at the University of Pretoria for the Fine Art and Design Faculty

2019

Part-time lecturer at the University of Pretoria for the School of Arts (Visual Studies)

2009-19

Co-owner, manager and studio artist at Dionysus Sculpture International (DSI)

2020

Digital Image Making & Transitive Drawing - practical modules, School of Arts,

University of Pretoria

Digital Image Making module, Practical class (online), Second Years, School of Arts,

University of Pretoria

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Pretoria Art Museum

University of Pretoria

Spoornet

Ellerman House collection

Saronsberg Fine Art Collection

South African Embassy in Nigeria

Webber Wentzel Bowens Attorneys

Frank and Lizelle Kilbourn Collection

Atterbury Group

Attacq Group