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Vivian Van Der Merwe
Vivian Van Der Merwe (born 29th May 1956, Cape Town, South Africa ) is a South African painter.

He has exhibited extensively in South Africa specialising in still life's of inanimate objects and abstracts. He has held at least fifteen solo exhibitions and participated in more than fifty group exhibitions

Biography
Vivian Van Der Merwe was born in Cape Town and studied fine art at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (1977-1983). He studied painting under Stanley Pinker. He was a lecturer in drawing and painting from 1982 to 2012 at the University of Stellenbosch and at Nelson Mandela University.

He is married to the artists and portrait painter, Fiona Metcalfe

Solo Exhibitions

 * Caledon, Western Cape region (Large-scale land artwork) [1977]
 * Arena Theatre, University of Cape Town. Interdisciplinary installation [1979]
 * South African College of Music, University of Cape Town. (Conceptual event) [1980]
 * Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town [1980]
 * Irma Stern Museum, University of Cape Town. [1984]
 * Stellenbosch University Art Gallery.[1985]
 * Wellington College Gallery, Wellington, South Africa [1985]
 * E.P.S.F.A. Gallery, Port Elizabeth. [1985]
 * South African Association of Art Gallery, Cape Town. [1986]
 * Central Art Studio, Port Elizabeth [1992]
 * Dorp Street Art Gallery, Stellenbosch. [1998]
 * Inaugural exhibition of Tokara Gallery, Stellenbosch [2001]
 * Stellenbosch University Art Gallery [2001/2002]
 * Grande Provence Gallery, Franschhoek [2006]
 * Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch [2013]