ZANDER BLOM

Solo shows include Polaris and Ursa Minor at the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean in Port Louis, Mauritius (2017); New Works at Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (2017; 2015); Place and Space at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2011-12); The Black Hole Universe at Galerie van der Mieden in Antwerp and 5x6x9, Berlin (2010); in addition to eight exhibitions at Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg (2010-19).

Group shows include Mapping Worlds at the Norval Foundation, Cape Town (2019); Assessing Abstraction at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2018); Gestalt & Becoming at Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph, Berlin (2016); Exchange at Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (2016); Home Truths: Domestic Interiors in South Africa at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2016); Material Matters: New Art from Africa at the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean in Port Louis, Mauritius (2015); Handle with Care!, the ninth Ostrale International Exhibition of Contemporary Art at the Ostrale Centre in Dresden (2015); Thinking, Feeling, Head, Heart at the New Church Museum, Cape Town (2015); The Evolution of Art 1830-2140, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin (2013); The Global Contemporary: Art worlds after 1989, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany (2011); Ampersand, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (2010); and ZA: Young art from South Africa, Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (2008).

In 2014 Blom won the third Jean-François Prat Prize for contemporary art in Paris. He is included in Phaidon’s latest anthology of contemporary painting, Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting (2016). His second catalogue raisonné, Paintings Volume II, with an essay by Nicola Trezzi, was published by Stevenson in December 2016.