Curriculum Vitae
b. 27 Sept 1977, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Education:
2017: PhD (Art History), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
2007: MFA, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town
1999: BFA, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town
Academic Publishing List Here
Published Book Works:
The Remaindering, 2022, Garamond Press
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Seas, 2013, Garamond Press
An Extended Alphabet, 2011, Expodium
False Friends, 2010, Kunstverein Publishing
Selected Solo exhibitions:
2022: Concrete Ecologies, Pulp Paperworks, Johannesburg
2017: Matterings, The Point of Order, Johannesburg
2015: Open Endings, TTTT, Ghent
2013: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Seas, Musee Jules Verne, Amiens
2012: 2,000 Meters Above the Sea, Center for Historical Reenactments, Johannesburg
2010: Double-sided Accumulated, Extraspazio, Rome
2010: False Friends, Kunstverein, Amsterdam (book launch)
2007: Open Studio, Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux
2005: When the Inside Stays Inside, João Ferreira Fine Art, Cape Town (cat)
Selected group exhibitions:
2021: Response-ability, Greenhouse Project, Johannesburg
2021: Power of 35! ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg
2020: Here Comes Summer, Museum Cultuur Strombeek, Brussels
2020: Alptraum, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance
2020: Rally, Melpark Sports Centre, Johannesburg (Johannesburg Lasts)
2019: AMBERES – Robert Bolaño’s Antwerp, M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (curated by Nav Haq)
2017-9: Future Africa: Visions in Time, Makerere Art Gallery, Kampala, Uganda; National Museum of Zimbabwe, Harare; National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi & Goethe-Institut Süd Afrika, Johannesburg (cat)
2017: Booknesses, FADA Gallery, Johannesburg
2016: African Art Book Fair (featured artist), Dakar (curated by Katja Gentric)
2015: A New Spirit in Booking, Museum Cultuur Strombeek, Brussels (curated by Luc Derycke)
2015: You Love Me, You Love Me Not, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto (curated by Suzana Sousa & Bruno Leitão)
2015: Future Africa: Visions in Time, Bayreuth Academy Exhibition, Bayreuth (curated by Nadine Siegert & Storm Janse Van Rensburg)
2015: Monologues, Aardklop Festival, Potchefstroom (curated by Meredith Randall)
2014: Book arts: Artist’s books, Gallery AOP, Johannesburg
2014: Nesting Narratives, GoetheonMain, Johannesburg
2014: Shop Front and Centre (Infecting the City), St George’s Mall, Cape Town
2013: Regions A-G, Johannesburg City Library, Johannesburg
2013-4: Suspicious Minds, Michaelis Gallery, Iziko Annexe, Cape Town (curated by Fabian Saptouw)
2013: IKAURU, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria,
2013: NOPX|artbook|2012|2013, NOPX|limitededitionpics, Turin
2013: Back and Forth, South London Gallery, London (curated by Marie Canet)
2012: Evolution de l’Art, Kunstverein Milano, Milan (curated by Katia Anguelova and Valerio Del Baglivo)
2011: The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989, ZKM | Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (curated by Peter Weibel and Andrea Buddensieg) (cat)
2011: Malleability Revisited (locatie: Kanaleneiland), Expodium, Utrecht (cat)
2011-2: DON’T/PANIC, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, Center for Historical Reenactments, Johannesburg (curated by Gabi Ngcobo) (cat)
2011: Anonymously Yours, Maison Gregoire, Brussels (cat)
2011-2: Alptraum, Deutscher Kuenstlerbund – Projektraum, Berlin, The Company, LA, USA; blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa, GoetheonMain, Johannesburg, South Africa
2010: FIT Chapter H, Maison Gregoire, Brussels (curated by Emmanuel Lambion)
2009: Performa 09, Produced by the Museum for African Art, New York (curated by Roselee Golderg) (cat)
2009: Dada South?, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (curated by Kathryn Smith and Roger Van Wyk)
2009: Futur, Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux (curated by Marie Canet)
2009: Polyphonie, Grenslandhal, Watou (curated by Hans Martens)
2009: First Things First, CCNOA, Brussels
2009: Test Patterns, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco (curated by Leigh Illion)
2008: False Friends, Conflict Room, Antwerp
2008: Scratching the Surface Vol. I, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town (curated by Gabi Ngcobo).
2008: . ZA, giovane arte dal Sudafrica, Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena (curated by Lorenzo Fusi) (cat)
2007: Luanda Pop_Check List, Biennale di Venezia 2007 (curated by Fernando Alvim and Simon Njami)
2007: Fresh II (National Arts Festival), Grahamstown (curated by Jay Pather)
2006: 1st Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Los Lavaderos, Tenerife, Spain (curated by Antonio Zaya) (cat)
2004: Negotiate, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
Artist Residencies:
2014: Pro Helvetia SADC residency, Kinshasa, DRC
2014: Osthang Project, Darmstadt, Germany
2013: International Residency at Recollets, Paris, France
2008-9: Hoger Instituut van Schone Kunsten (HISK), Ghent, Belgium
2007: Cité des Arts, Paris, France (awarded for winning first prize in the 2006 ABSA L’Atelier Competition)
Selected Bibliography (solo projects):
Munnik, G. 2022. ‘Monstrous Elasticity: Ruth Sacks ‘The Remaindering’ Artthrob.co.za [online].
Mecugni, A. 2010. ‘Ruth Sacks’: Art in America International Review 2010. p. 84 [pdf]
Iaceolla, A. 2010. ‘Ruth Sacks’: Exibart. Year XIX no 64. p. 65 [pdf]
Fiacco, D. 2010. ‘Ruth Sacks at Gallery Extraspazzio, Rome’: Arskey [online]
Available: http://www.teknemedia.net/magazine_detail.html?mId=7671
Williamson, S. 2009. ‘Ruth Sacks’: South African Art Now. Collins Design. p. 262-3
Arnaudet, D. 2007. ‘Open Studio’: Art Press. No. 339. p. 87 [pdf]
Vincent, C. 2007. ‘Ruth Sacks Cortex Athletico’: Art South Africa . Vol 6 Issue 2.
pp. 90 – 1 [pdf]
Vincent, C. 2007. ‘Cabinet de lecture’: Art 21. Numero 13. p. 42 [pdf]
O’Toole, S. 2007. ‘So What Does Ruth Do Again?’: Art South Africa. Vol. 5. Issue 4. p. 18.
Williamson, S. 2006. ‘Ruth Sacks Artbio’: Artthrob [online]. Available: http://www.artthrob.co.za/06oct/artbio.html
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