User:Turiya Magadela

BIOGRAPHY

South African artist Turiya Magadlela (b. 1978, Johannesburg, South Africa) Largely employs tights in order to evoke racial and sexual discrimination, as well as femininity and eroticism. Magadlela’s use of textiles also calls attention to (skin) colour, as well as referring to the context of South African political affairs.

Her subject matter moves between articulations of personal experiences of woman and motherhood, and narratives from black South African history. Magadlela engages in a conversation on the colonization of black bodies and women; her art uses materials capitalist in nature at a time when commoditization is ever more prescient.

In 2017, Magadlela presented a solo exhibit at The Armory Show, NY. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions both locally and internationally, including Blue Black, curated by Glenn Ligon at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation; Simple Passion, Complex Vision: The Darryl Atwell Collection at the Gantt Centre; The Past is Present at Jack Shainman Gallery; and Blackness in Abstraction at Pace Gallery. In 2015, she was awarded the prestigious FNB Art Prize. She studied at the University of Johannesburg and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. In 2018, Magadlela was featured in a list of the top “10 African artists to invest in now” by the TimesLive, and shortlisted for the Jean-François Prat Prize.

DOB

1978

Johannesburg, South Africa

Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa

EDUCATION

2003 - 2004 Postgraduate Research Study, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Netherlands

1999 - 2001 National Diploma of Fine Arts, University of Johannesburg

1998 Certificate in Fine Arts, Funda Community College, Johannesburg

1997 Matriculated from the National School of the Arts, Johannesburg

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Mashadi WouldSay..., MSGSU Resim ve Heykel Muzesi, Santiyesi, Istanbul,Turkey

2017 The Armory Show, Solo Exhibit for the Armory Show Presents, New York City, NY

Wabona lapho isifebe, wangena kuso, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

2015 Impilo ka Lova, Blankprojects, Cape Town, South Africa

Kaffersheet, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Imihuzuko (for the FNB Art Prize), FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa

2012 Everybody knows uFeela, Blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

2003 Young Artist Award, Goethe Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

2001- 2002 Activate Architects, Johannesburg, South Africa

2001 Generator’s Art Space, Johannesburg, South Africa

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 New Conversations, Malibu Art Walk, Malibu, California

Gossamer, Curated by Zoe Bedeaux, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, Kent, UK

Frieze Art Fair, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Brooklyn and San Fransisco, USA

King of The Hill, Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC, USA

Material Insanity, Museum of African Contemporary Art AI Maaden (MACAAL),

Marrakesh, Morocco

Open Agenda, Bank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

UNTITLED, San Francisco, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2018 UNTITLED, Miami, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL

The Same As Ever, But More So, Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany

EXPO Chicago, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Chicago, IL

Jean François Prat Prize, Bredin Prat Foundation, Paris, France

Blankprojects and Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany

More for less, A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa

2017 Blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

A Painting Today, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

Looking Back, Moving Forward, Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa

Blue Black, curated by Glenn Ligon, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis

MO Simple Passion, Complex Vision: The Darryl Atwell Collection, Gantt Centre, Charlotte, NC

The Past is Present, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, NY

Les jour qui vient, curated by Marie - Ann Yemsi, Galerie des Galeries, Paris, France

2016 Blackness in Abstraction, Pace Gallery, New York City, NY

The Quiet Violence of Dreams, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

3881 days, blank lab, Cape Town, South Africa

Figure, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

2015 Furniture: a sculpture exhibition, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

Back to the Future II: Abstract Art in South Africa: Past & Present, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa

2014 The Poetry In Between: South South, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

next thing you know, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

half- devil and half- child, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

2013 This is the thing, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

Blank projects in Johannesburg, Ithuba Arts Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Weerberig/Weather report, curated by Luan Nel, Aardklop Festival, Potchefstroom, South Africa

2012 When Form Becomes Attitude, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

2006 De Grote Oversteek, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2004 Rijksakademie Open Ateliers, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2001 – 2002 Activate Architects, Johannesburg, South Africa

ABSA L ‘Atelier Exhibition, Johannesburg, South AfricaMuseum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

Generator’s Art Space, Arts Alive, Johannesburg, South Africa

GRANTS/FELLOWS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES:

2018 Jean Francois Prat Prize

2015 FNB Joburg Art Prize 2004

2005 Residency, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten

Dutch Ministry of Arts and Culture

2004 National Arts Council of South Africa

2003

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2004 National Ministry of Arts Culture, Science and Technology, South Africa

2003 Goethe Institut and Johannesburg Art Gallery Young Artist Award

2002 ABSA L’Atelier, selected as Top 100 Best National Artists