Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Selected One-Person Exhibitions

2015
"Dusk"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2013
"Breakpoint"   Clark Gallery, Lexington, MA
2013
"Break"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2012
"Breakwater"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2012
"ARC"   Bernstein Gallery, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2011
"Tideline"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2011
"Tidal Pools/ Breakwaters"   NKG Gallery, Boston, MA
2009
"Source"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2008
"Transformer"   Boston Arts Academy, Boston, MA
2007
"Gate"   The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2006
"Being here and Not There: Fragments and Reliquaries From Robben Island"   W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, HarvardUniversity
2004
"The Island"   David Krut Projects, New York, NY
2002
"Slip Slide"   Schoolhouse Galleries, Provincetown, MA
2001
"Crossing"   Schoolhouse Galleries, Provincetown, MA
2000
"Scatterlings"   Hampden Gallery, U. Mass, Amherst
2000
"Fragments"   Groton School, Groton, MA
1999
"Figuring"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1998
"Essential Gestures"   Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, MA
1996
"Love’s Body"   Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, MA
1995
"Alchemist"   Holzwasser Gallery, New Art Center, Newton, MA
1993
"Offerings"   Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
1992
"African Herbs"   McQuade Library Art Gallery, Merrimack College, Andover, MA
1988
"Gallerie Sandoz"   Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1988
New Art Center, Newton, MA
1988
Gallery II, Tufts University, Medford, MA
1987
Association of Arts Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
1986
Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1983
Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1981
Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1980
Guest Artist, Johannesburg Art Gallery
1979
Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1978
Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1976
Walsh Marais Gallery, Durban, South Africa
1974
Walsh Marais Gallery, Durban, South Africa
1971
Walsh Marais Gallery, Durban, South Africa

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016
"Blue Cape"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2012
"Klip En Klei"   Grevillas Gallery Breytenbach Sentrum, Wellington, South Africa
2012
"WAM! Seeing Stars"   Witwatersrand University Art Museum, Johannesburg,South Africa
2009
":EEC 25: Forward>March"   Spier Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2009
"Violence Transformed"   Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA
2009
"Two Person Exhibition (with Peter Scott)"   Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
2008
"Is there still Life"   Sanlam Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2008
"Apartheid. The South African Mirror."   Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Curated by Pep Subiros
2007
Art Now Fair, Miami, FL
2005
"Rust-en-Vrede Gallery"   Cape Town, South Africa
2005
"Four Person Exhibition"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2004
"Excavation and Reconstruction in Contemporary African Art"   Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2003
"Four Person Exhibition"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2002
"Faculty Exhibition"   Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2002
"A Continent Away: Multiple Identities in Contemporary African Art"   Brush Gallery, Lowell, MA
2002
"Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa"   University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ
2001
"Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa"   ris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford, CA
2001
"Faculty Choice"   Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, CO
2000
"Drawings & Photographs"   Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
2000
"Day Without Art"   Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2000
"Awake"   Harbor Gallery, U. Mass, Boston, MA
2000
"Inside/Out"   Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1999
"Destination/Place"   Schoolhouse Galleries, Provincetown, MA
1999
"Postcards from South Africa"   Axis Gallery, New York, NY
1999
"Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa"   The Museum for African Art, New York, NY
1998
"Recent American Portraits bree"   George Sherman Union Gallery, Boston University, MA
1998
"The Contemporary Artist as Observer and Observed"   The Brush Art Gallery and Studios, Market Mills, Lowell, MA
1998
Schoolhouse Galleries, Provincetown, MA
1997
"Eighth Triennial"   Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
1996
"Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa"   Malmo Kunsthall, Malmo, Sweden
1996
"Visiting Faculty Exhibition"   Carpenter Center, Harvard University,Cambridge, MA
1995
"Something Human"   Towne Art Gallery, Wheelock College, Boston, MA
1995
"Taking Liberties: The Body Politic"   Africus Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
1995
"Siyawela"   Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England
1995
"Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa"   Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
1994
"Faculty Exhibition"   Tisch Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, MA
1994
"Faculty Exhibition"   New Art Center, Newton, MA
1994
"Visual Arts Showcase"   Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
1994
"BOSTON (in dialogue) NOW"   Institute for Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA
1993
"Faculty Exhibition"   School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1993
"Christmas Exhibition"   New Art Center, Newton, MA
1993
"Anything but Paper Prayers"   Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1992
"Autopia"   Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
1992
"Salon"   Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
1992
"Faculty Exhibition"   New Art Center, Newton, MA
1992
"Symphony of Prosperity"   Akin Gallery, Boston, MA
1991
"Confronting Political and Social Evil"   Tufts University, Medford, MA
1991
"Faculty Biennial"   Starr Gallery, Grossman Campus, Newton, MA
1990
"Voices from South Africa"   Stuart Levy Gallery, New York, NY
1990
"Faculty Exhibition"   New Art Center, Newton, MA
1990
"Let the Voices be Heard"   Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
1990
"The Body Politic: Three Figurative Artists"   McQuade Library Art Gallery, Merrimack College, Andover
1989
"Faculty Exhibition"   School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1989
"Three Person Exhibition"   Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
1988
"Five South African Artists"   Boston, Boston, MA
1988
"Detention Without Trial: 100 Artists Protest"   Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1988
"Culture in Another South Africa"   Amsterdam, Holland
1987
"Director’s Exhibition"   Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1987
"Vita Awards Exhibition"   Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1987
"P.O.W."   Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1987
Five South African Artists

 

Public Lectures and Conferences

2011
"Visual Strategies of Space and Place in the African Landscape,African Studies Association Conference"   Smithsonian Museum of African Art, Washington, DC
2009
"New Geographies in Contemporary African Art"   Harvard Committee on African studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2009
"Painting Robben Island: Representing History in Post Apartheid South Africa"   Office of Multicultural Affairs, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2004
"Excavation and Reconstruction in Contemporary South African Art"   Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2003
"Art on a Tightrope, Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa"   The Rose Art museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2001
"Liberated Voices Symposium"   Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1999
"Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa"   PANEL,The Museum for African Art, New York, NY
1997
"Panel: “Panoramas of Passage, Changing Landscapes of South Africa”"   Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
1997
"African Celebration"   Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
1996
"Public Lecture, Visiting Faculty, Carpenter Center"   Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1995
"The Road to Mecca/ The Road to Boston"   LECTURE: Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
1989
"International Artists Symposium"   Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1988
"Paper delivered: Politics, Culture and the Struggle for Liberation"   South-Eastern Massachusetts University, MA
1988
"Paper delivered: Politics, Culture and the Struggle for Liberation"   Tufts University, Medford, MA
1988
"Paper delivered: Politics, Culture and the Struggle for Liberation"   Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1988
"Panelist “Surviving Visions”, Symposium: Art and Social Responsibility"   Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1988
"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   Boston University, Boston, MA
1988
"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   Wessell Library, Tufts University, Medford, MA
1988
"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   Rutgers University (Invitation of Leon Golub), NJ
1988
"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   Newton Arts Center, Newtonville, MA
1988
"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   ASEAN Auditorium, Tufts University, Medford, MA
1988
"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   Castleton State College, Castleton, VT
1988
"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1988
"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   Leventhal-Sidman Community Center, Newton, MA
1988
"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1988
"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1981
"Art and Social Change"   University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
1981
"Art and Society"   University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
1979
"The State of Art in South Africa"   Conference at University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

 

Honors and Awards

2010
"Board of Directors"   South African Development Fund, Boston, MA
2006
"Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning"   Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2004
Residency, The Robben Island Museum, South Africa
2003
Ohio Arts Council Jury for OHC Fellowship Awards
2003
Delivered the Ruth First Memorial Lecture, Brandies University, Waltham MA
2000
Residency, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT
1998
Juror, The Copley Society of Boston, Boston, MA
1995
Juror, Worcester Art Association, Worcester, MA
1994
Juror, New Hampshire Individual artist Fellowship: Visual Art Panel
1994
Curator, The Copley Society of Boston, Holiday Invitational Exhibition
1993
Engelhard Fellowship at Bequia,, West Indies
1987
Judge for the Federated Union of Black Artists, National Student Exhibition
1986
The Ian Haggie Award for best Artist, "Visions", Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1985
The Rodney Burn Award for Figurative Drawing, Royal College of Art, London, England
1984
Director, Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1984
British Council Scholarship to study in the United Kingdom
1980
External Examiner for Drawing, UNISA, Department of Fine Arts, Pretoria, South Africa
1972
Member, Editorial Board of “Reality”, (Current Affairs Journal, Editor, Alan Paton)
1971
Institute of Race Relations Award, South Africa
1970
Member, Theatre Council of Natal (TECON), Non-Racial Theatre Group
1970
Student Representative Council Award for Best Student, Johannesburg School of Art, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

Teaching Resume

2013
"Full Time Faculty, Drawing Area Representative"   School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2010
"Continuing Part Time Faculty"   School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2007
"Visiting Full Time Faculty"   School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2005
"Director of Undergraduate Studies, Visual and Environmental Studies"   Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2003
"Head Tutor, Visual and Environmental Studies Department"   Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1996
"Visiting Artist, Visual and Environmental Studies Department"   Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1989
"Associate Faculty"   Tufts University, Medford, MA
1988
"Artist-in-Residence"   Tufts University, Medford, MA
1978
"Senior Tutor, Department of Fine Arts"   University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
1977
"Tutor, Department of Fine Arts"   University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
1976
"Part-time Lecturer,Department of Architecture"   University of Natal, South Africa
1971
"Lecturer in Fine Art"   Natal Technical College, Durban, South Africa

 

Additional Teaching Experience

2012
"Summer School Program"   Fine Art Work Center , Provincetown, MA
2011
"Visiting Artist: Lecture and Student Critiques"   Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2010
"Drawing Into Painting"   Harvard Summer School, Cambridge, MA
2009
"Graduate Drawing Seminar and Workshop:"   Massart at the Fine Art Work Center , Provincetown,MA
2009
"Graduate Thesis Reviews,low residency program"   Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2009
"Graduate Thesis Reviews, low residency program"   Fine Art Work Center, Provicentown, MA
2008
"Drawing Intensive Workshop"   Robben Island, South Africa
2008
"Drawing 2-Day Workshop, winter session"   Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2004
"Weeklong intensive drawing and painting program"   Art New England, Bennington, VT
1999
"Introduction to Drawing and Drawing Into Painting"   Harvard Summer School, Cambridge, MA

 

Public Collections

2016
Harvard University Film Archive, Cambridge, MA
2016
Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016
Tufts University, Medford, MA
2016
The Council House Gallery, Wisconsin, USA
2016
The Kaufman Handel Maatschappij, Rotterdam, Holland
2016
National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016
Durban Art Museum, Durban, South Africa
2016
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016
University of the Witwatersrand Art Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016
Natal Technikon, Durban, South Africa
2016
UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
2016
Pretoria Art Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa

 

Corporate Collections

2016
Total Systems Services, Columbus, Georgia
2016
Goodwin Proctor, Boston, MA
2016
Biogen, Cambridge, MA

 

Education

1985
"SCC (one year post graduate)"   Royal College of Art, London
1976
NATD (four year course), Johannesburg College of Art

 

Selected Bibliography

2016
"African art brings themes from ‘A Continent Away",   BOSTON GLOBE, April 19 by Cate McQuaid
2015
"Biko’s Ghost: The Iconography of Black Consciousness",   Shannen Hill, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis/London, 2015
2013
"Voices of Liberation: Steve Biko",   HSRC Press by Derek Hood
2013
"Break Point",   Art New England, May/June 2013 by Christine Temin
2007
"Paintings With a Silvery Mood",   Boston Globe, August 23 by Cate McQuaid
2006
"Paul Stopforth: PORTRAIT",   The Harvard Crimson, April 20, 2006 by Zoe M. Savitsky
2005
"First Word: Excavation and Reconstruction in Contemporary African Art",   African Arts, Spring 2005 by Mark Auslander
2004
"Sacred fragments: Looking Back at the Art of Paul Stopforth",   African Arts, Winter 2004 by Sandra Klopper
2002
"arts MEDIA",   arts MEDIA, April 15—May 15, 2002
2002
"This New Body of Work is Beautifully Abstract",   BOSTON GLOBE, August 10 by Christine Temin
2002
"An Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century",   Revue Noir Editions: African Contemporary Art: Paris by dited by N’Gone Fall & Jean Loup Pivin
2002
"Experiments with Truth: Transitional Justice and the Processes of Truth and Reconciliation",   Trauma and Truth, Rory Bester, DOCUMENTA11_ PLATFORM2 by Edited by Okwui Enwezor Carlos Basualdo, Ute Meta Bauer, Susanne Ghez, Sarat Maharaj, Mark Nash, Octavio Zaya
2001
"Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa",   BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE, November 26 by Christine Temin
2001
"BAD BEHAVIOR",   Rizzoli Publishing by Bill Haywood
2001
"Stopforth Expands",   BOSTON GLOBE, August 15 by Christine Temin
1999
"Free Show",   SCHOOLHOUSE CENTER PUBLICATION by Sal Randolph,
1999
"Destination/? Place",   SCHOOLHOUSE CENTER PUBLICATION by Michael Carroll and Jim Cory
1999
"Truth and the Art of Healing",   BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE, January 3 by Christine Temin
1999
"Postcards from South Africa",   NEW YORK TIMES, September 10 by Holland Cotter
1999
"South Africans, Isolated No More",   NEW YORK TIMES, September 24 by Holland Cotter
1998
"Paul Stopforth’s Eloquent Mimes",   BOSTON GLOBE, October 7 by Christine Temin
1998
"The Superb and the Shoddy: Best Art 1988",   BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE by Christine Temin
1997
"Contemporary South African Art 1985-1995 from the South African National Gallery Permanent Collectio",   SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL GALLERY
1996
"Stopforth’s Bodies Bear Their Souls",   BOSTON GLOBE, September 10 by Christine Temin
1996
"Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa",   ARTFORUM, January by Jean Fisher
1996
"Profile: Paul Stopforth",   ART NEW ENGLAND, April/May by Lois Tarlow
1996
"Returning the Curve: Africa 95, Teng, and “Seven Stories”",   AFRICANARTS, Summer 96
1995
"Moving from Clenched Fists to Open Arms",   BOSTON GLOBE, May 12 by Christine Temin
1995
"Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa",   CATALOGUE WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY, London, England, September to December: MALMO KUNSTHALL, Malmo, Sweden, January to March
1995
"Die Veelheid van Een Verhaal",   DE STANDAARD, Belgium, October 13 by Peter Vantyghen
1995
"Africa Now",   ART MONTHLY, November by Margaret Garlake
1995
"Always Something New Out of Africa",   TIMES, London, October 24 by Richard Cork
1995
"Star Attraction",   BOSTON GLOBE, November 15 by Christine Temin
1994
"Market Gallery",   THE WEEKLY MAIL AND GUARDIAN, Johannesburg, South Africa, June 10-16 by Ivor Powell
1994
"Strong Art, Weak Premise in ICA Show",   BOSTON GLOBE, August 5 by Nancy Stapen
1994
"EducaArtist",   TUFTS JOURNAL, Novemberting the by Frederick H. Kalil
1993
"In ‘93 Galleries Put Ingenuity on Display",   BOSTON GLOBE, December 30 by Nancy Stapen
1993
"Paul Stopforth: Offerings",   ART NEW ENGLAND, June/July by Meredith Fife Day
1993
"Paul Stopforth",   ARTNEWS, Summer 1993 by Nancy Stapen
1992
"150 MASTERPIECES OF SOUTH AFRICAN PAINTING",   Struik Publisher, Cape Town, South Africa by Barbara Clarke
1992
"Confronting the Anguish: Paul Stopforth Shines a Harsh Light on South Africa’s Oppression",   BOSTON GLOBE, October 3 by Christine Temin
1992
"1989 RESISTANCE ART IN SOUTH AFRICA",   St. Martin's Press, NY by Sue Williamson
1992
"Paul Stopforth",   PRISMA: A MULTICULTURAL FORUM, Winter by Cathy Crossman
1992
"Autopia",   BOSTON GLOBE, February 27 by Nancy Stapen
1986
"A Subtle New Stopforth Moves Beyond the Literal",   THE WEEKLY MAIL, October 9 by Ivor Powell
1981
"No Show as Govt. Bars Biko Art",   RAND DAILY MAIL, October by Bev Mortimer
1981
"Enigmatic Comment on Society’s Harshness: Paul Stopforth and Michael Goldberg at the Market Theater",   RAND DAILY MAIL, November by Anne Pogrund
1980
"CONVERSATIONS",   Bateleur Press by Avril Herber
1980
"Local Artist Paul Leaves Sentiment Way Behind",   SUNDAY EXPRESS, September 17 by Joyce Ozynski
1980
"A Response to Violence: Paul Stopforth Exhibition of Drawings",   RAND DAILY MAIL, August 14 by Anne Sassoon
1979
"ART AND ARTISTS OF SOUTH AFRICA",   Johnathan Cape Publisher, Revised edition by Esme Berman
1978
"The Hidden Horror-in-Open View",   WEEKEND WORLD, September 25 by Miriam Jacob
1976
"Stopforth is Mixing Politics and Palettes",   SUNDAY EXPRESS, May 12 by Joyce Ozynski

 
 
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