Sue Williamson

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Sue Williamson
Born (1941-01-21) 21 January 1941
Lichfield, England
Nationality South African
Field installation art, photography, video art
Training Art Students League of New York and Michaelis School of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town.
Awards Visual Arts Research Award from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C 2007.

Sue Williamson (born in 1941 in Lichfield, England) is a South African artist and writer.

Life

Sue Williamson is born in 1941 in England. She moves with her family to South Africa at the age of 7. Between 1963 and 1965 she studies at the Art Students League of New York and in 1983 she obtains her advanced diploma at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.[1] In 2007 she receives the Visual Arts Research Award from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C and in 2011[2] the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Creative Arts Fellowship.[3] In 2013 she is guest curator of the summer academy at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern.

Work

Artworks

Her work is curated by the Goodman Gallery[4] and it is owned by international museums, such as the MoMA Museum of Modern Art in New York,[5] the National Museum of African Art - Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C, the South African National Gallery in Cape Town and the V&A Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Among the group exhibitions Sue Williamson participates in, there are The Short Century (2001), Liberated Voices (1999), the Johannesburg Art Biennale (in 1997 and 1995), the Havana Biennale (1994) and the Venice Biennale (1993).

Publications

Sue Williamson is the founder of the online art journal "Artthrob" and she has published several publications on contemporary South African art.

  • South African Art Now, HarperCollins, 2011.
  • Art in South Africa: the future present, with Ashraf Jamal, Publisher David Philip (Cape Town), 1996.
  • Resistance Art in South Africa, Juta and Company Ltd, 2010.

References

  1. ↑ Profile of Sue Williamson on the website of the National Museum of African Art - Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/insights/williamson-artist.html.
  2. ↑ http://www.sommerakademie.zpk.org/en/sommerakademie-2013/guest-curator.html.
  3. ↑ http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/bellagio-center/bellagio-creative-arts-fellows/about-program/sue-williamson.
  4. ↑ http://www.goodman-gallery.com/artists/suewilliamson
  5. ↑ A work of Sue Williamson at the MOMA http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=28222.

Bibliography

  • Grania Ogilvy, Dictionary of South African Sculptors and Painters, Everard Read, 1989.
  • Betty La Duke, Africa through the Eyes of Women Artists, Africa World Press, 1991.
  • Richard J Powell, Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century, World of Art Series, Thames & Hudson, 1997.
  • Philippa Hobbs & Elizabeth Rankin, Printmaking in a transforming South Africa, David Philip Publishers, Cape Town, 1997.
  • Olu Oguibe & Okwui Enwezor, Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to Marketplace, MIT Press, 1999.
  • Sidney Littlefield, Contemporary African Art, Thames & Hudson, 1999.
  • N'Gone Fall & Jean Pivin, Anthologie de l'Art Africain du Xxe Siecle, Revue Noir, 2001.
  • Kim Gurney, Sue Williamson in Artthrob, November 2003.
  • Nicholas M. Dawes, Sue Williamson: Selected Work, Juta and Company Ltd, 2003.
  • Emma Bedford and Sophie Perryer, 10 Years 100 Artists: Art In A Democratic South Africa, Struik, 2004.
  • Petra Stegmann, Sue Williamson in Culturebase, 2007.
  • Stefanie Jason, Sue Williamson celebrates an enduring female legacy in Mail&Guardian, 31/05/2013.

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