Lien Botha: Curriculum Vitae

Born in Tshwane Gauteng, in 1961.

Education

1978 Matric, Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool, Pretoria
1988 BA Fine Art, University of Cape Town

Employment

1983 Press photographer, Beeld, Pretoria
1984 Co-ordinator: SAMCA Art Department, Stikland Industria, Western Cape
1991 Staff photographer: SA National Gallery, Cape Town
1997-2003 Part-time lecturer: Michaelis School of Fine Art
2003 Part-time lecturer: University of Stellenbosch

Residencies, Awards & Scholarships

1990 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
1997 Standard Bank Young Artist
2001 Jules Kramer Music and Fine Art Scholarship, U.C.T
2001 MacIver Scholarship
2001 SACI, Florence, Italy, Visiting artist scholarship
2003 SFAI, San Francisco, U.S.A
2004 Festival Artist, KKNK, Oudtshoorn
2005 Nouaison, Pujols, France
2006 Ampersand Fellowship, New York, U.S.A

Solo Exhibitions

October 1989 A Passage of Wing, Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, Cape Town
April 1991 Rites of Faith, SAA of Arts, Cape Town
1997-1998 Boxing Days, Grahamstown and touring
March 2002 Radio Maria, Cape Town Castle and SACI, Palazzo dei Cartelloni, Florence, Italy
March 2004 Safari: KKNK, Oudtshoorn
October 2005 Safari: MC2a, Bordeaux, France
October 2006 Amendment, The Photographer's Gallery, Cape Town
November 2008 Anthology:mid-career Retrospective, Oliewenhuis, Bloemfontein

Shared Exhibitions

1994 Lyn Smuts and Lien Botha, Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, Cape Town
1995 Krotoa's Room (with Raymond Smith), The Grain Cellar, Castle, Cape Town
1996 Rhodes Memorial (with Raymond Smith) AVA, Cape Town
2000 How the land lies (Lyn Smuts, Sophie Peters, Lien Botha), Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, Cape Town
2004 City Hall (with Mariella Poli) AVA, Cape Town

South African Group Exhibitions (a selected list)

1991 Recent acquisitions, Iziko Museums: SA National Gallery, Cape Town
1993 Aids Awareness and Safer Sex, SAA of Arts, CapeTown
1993 Women's Work, SAA of Arts, Bellville
1994 The Locker Room Project, River Club, Observatory, fencing installation
1995 Windows on the new SA, BMW Pavilion, Waterfront, Cape Town
1995 Johannesburg Biennale - Museumafrica, Johannesburg
1995 The GAP, Grahamstown Festival
1995 People's Portraits, SANG (a touring exhibition)
1996 Faultlines (13 artists) – Inquiries into truth and reconciliation, Castle, Cape Town
1996 Portraits and Identities, Paarl Museum
1996 Contemporary SA Art 1985-1995, SANG permanent collection
1997 Recent Publications, Hardground Printmakers, AVA, Cape Town
1997 Photo synthesis, Grahamstown festival and touring
1997 District Six Sculpture Festival, District Six / Zonnebloem, Cape Town
1998 Face @ Area Gallery, Cape Town
1998 10 Photographers, A.R.T. Gallery, Paarl
1998 Telkom. The Spirit of Africa, SAA of Arts, Pretoria
1998 Photographics, The Open Window, Pretoria
1999 Still Life, A.R.T. Gallery, Paarl
1999 Lines of Sight, SANG, Cape Town
2000 Unplugged V, Market Gallery, Johannesburg
2000 Collaboration, Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town
2001 Aarsel, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
2002 Letsels, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
2002 Mountain/Berg, Association of Arts, Bellville
2003 Lexicons and Labyrinths, S A Museum, Cape Town
2004 A Decade of Democracy, Iziko Museums: SA National Gallery, Cape Town
2005 Girls Night Out, Joáo Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town
2005 Interpreting Landscape, Artb Bellville, Cape Town and Association of Arts, Pretoria
2005 Women for Children, Art for Humanity, Durban Art Gallery and Billboards
2006 Home Sweet Home, Strydom Art Gallery, George
2006 Want & Desire, Joáo Ferreira, Cape Town
2006 Waste at Work, SPIER, Stellenbosch
2008 Johannesburg Art Fair
2008 Reality Check: Contemporary South African Art Photography, IZIKO SA National Gallery, Cape Town
2008 Departure: Photographers' Gallery, Cape Town
2008 Construct: Beyond the documentary photograph, UNISA Art Gallery

International Group Exhibitions

1994 Crosscurrents, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida, U.S.A
1995 Transitions, Contemporary SA Art at the Bath Festival, UK
1995 Noue Graphik aus S_dafrika. Hamburgisches Museum f_r V_lkerkunde, Germany
1996 Images of the West: Images of Africa Fest, African photographers, Copenhagen, Denmark
1996 Don't mess with Mr. In-between, 15 Artistas Da Africa do Sul, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
1997 Fin de Siécle, SA Arborescence, Nantes Festival, France
1997 Lifetimes, Contemporary SA Art, Art Bureau, Munich, Germany
1998 Memorias Intimas Marcas, Museu da Cidadé, Lisbon, Portugal
1998 SA Fine Art Prints in Belgium, Antwerp, Louvain, Belgium
1999 Project Conflux, Mikado Gallery, Luxembourg and touring
2001 Topographies, Harare, Zimbabwe
2001 Lines of sight, Bamako, Mali
2002 Aspects of HIV/Aids,Wellesley College, Massachussetts, U.S.A
2002 SA Photographers, OMC Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
2002 Family Stories, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
2003 City Hall, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, U.S.A
2004 Post: Contemporary South African Photography, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2005 L'Ete Photographique de Lectoure, France
2005 Crusaid, Artaid; Royal College of Art, London, U.K.
2005 Photo San Francisco, U.S.A
2005 Cutting Water, Theatre Performance with Compagnie des Limbes: Lectoure and Novart, Bordeaux, France
2005 Another World, Bamako Biennale, Mali
2006 12 African photographers, Kornhausforum, Bern Switzerland
2007 31 African Photographers, La Centrale Electrique, Brussels, Belgium
2007 Contemporary Art Photography from South Africa, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany & touring
2007 Another World, Jeumon of Saint Denis, Reunion
2007 Uniform: South Africa's new clothes, Spanierman Modern, New York
2007 Hereford Photography Festival
2007 Désirréalités, Espace 1789 Saint-Ouen, Paris
2008 Kick the carbon habit , Te Papa Tongerewa Museum of New Zealand
2008 Actions , Manifesta Biennial, Trentino Italy
2008 Fotofest Calabria, Italy

Curated Exhibitions

1992 Not December, The Artsstrip, Cape Town (co-curator with Raymond Smith)
1994 Photo Works by Women, SAA of Arts, Cape Town
1999 Bloedlyn, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn and AVA, Cape Town
1999 Invincibles, State Theatre Art Gallery, Pretoria (co-curator with Franci Cronjé)
1999 100xC, Cape Town's first Month of Photography (co-curator)

Catalogues/Publications

1995 Johannesburg Biennale
Contemporary SA Art 1985-1995 from the SANG
Don't mess with Mr. In-between, 1996
Boxing days, 1997
District Six Sculpture Project, 1997
Photo Synthesis, Contemporary SA Photography, 1997
Marcas News, Third Edition, Johannesburg, 1998
Project Conflux, 1999
Collaboration, 2000
Lines of Sight, 2001
Cape Town Month of Photography, 2002
Taxi 05, 2002
Lexicons and Labyrinths, 2003
Post, 2004
Sasol: art @ work, 2005
Cape Town Month of Photography, 2005
www.lienbotha.co.za, 2005
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Südafrika, 2007
Look at me: Women artists and poets advocate children's rights, Art for Humanity, 2007
Cape Town Month of Photography, 2008

Collections

Durban Art Gallery
Johannesburg Art Gallery
Pietersburg Art Gallery
Provincial Libraries, Cape Town
SA National Gallery, Cape Town
Standard Bank Corporate, Johannesburg
Telkom
University of Stellenbosch
University of the Orange Free State
Wellesley College, Massachussetts, USA
Pretoria Art Museum
Durban Institute of Technology
UNISA
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Museum, P.E.
SASOL
MuseumAfrica, Johannesburg
ATKV
Irma Stern Museum / University of Cape Town
Natural World Museum, San Francisco, USA
Telesure
Mettle
Hollard
Oliewenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein

Complete Bodies of Work

1. A passage of wing: mixed media/photo collage, 1989
2. Rites of Faith: Silver prints, 1990
3. Memorabilia: 3D Collages, 1992
4. Africana Collectanea: Photographic constructions, 1994
5. Portrette: Silver prints, 1995
6. Krotoa's Room: mixed media installation (collaboration with Raymond Smith), 1995
7. The washing line: from Faultlines, mixed media installation (liquid light on cotton), 1996
8. Rhodes Memorial: mixed media installation (with Raymond Smith), 1996
9. The home that you built: mixed media installation (District Six Sculpture Project), 1997; text, Karen Press
10. Boxing Days: mixed media installation (Standard Bank Art Festival & Touring), 1997
11. Salver 8/24: selenium-toned silver prints/wooden trays, 1998: Memorias, Intimas, Marcas
12. Geweertjies in die voorhuis, selenium-toned silver prints, 1998
13. Postscript: By land, by sea, by air: colour prints mounted on to polystyrene and placed inside post office boxes, 1998
14. Voëlhuis: Die sirkelstrokie van Maria Blou: mixed media: Oos Wes Tuis Bes, KKNK, 1999
15. Ten trees growing nowhere: UV-laminated copper toned fibre-based prints/bark chips, SANG 1999
16. Ten degrees of separation: digital manipulation: digital prints, 2000
17. Book of gloves: 2001
18. Radio Maria: photographic lambda prints, cotton bales, radio, 2002
19. Photo brooch: 250 photographic brooches, living art installation, 2002
20. Vier Susters: digital colour prints/canvas, 2003
21. Brother's Keeper: mixed media installation, 2003
22. Safari: digital colour prints / cotton paper, 2003
23. Library Hours: Lambda colour prints, 2004
24. Suzy's Lovers: digital colour prints/canvas, 2004
25. After Thunberg: digital colour prints/canvas, 2005
26. Cutting Water: Theatre performance installation
27. Springbok Poems: digital colour prints/drawing/book, 2005, 2006
28. & Company: 60 x A4 photocopy constructions/Recycled paper/Perspex, 2006
29. Not the missionary: 10 x A5 digital prints/notebooks/perspex, 2006
30. Amendment: 14x colour photographic inkjet prints/cotton paper, 2006
31. Portrait of the artist as a diary (chronicle with images, 2007, 2008
32. White stick for the Arctic: 7 light-jet colour photographic prints, 2008
33. Moundou: 6 colour prints on Hahnemuhle paper, 2008