Mia Chaplin

About

Mia Chaplin (b.1990 South Africa) completed her BFA at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town in 2011. Working in oil on canvas and paper, her highly expressive works are characterised by their rich impasto surfaces and visible brushstrokes. Chaplin has recently completed an artist residency programme at OBRAS Foundation in Alentejo, Portugal. She lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2017	Under a Boiling River - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Johannesburg
2016	Binding Forms - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town
2014	Mia Chaplin: Ceremony, Salon 91, Cape Town
2011	Mia Chaplin: No Place, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016	Nano, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
	For What its Worth, No End Contemporary, Johannesburg
	Sewing Paradise: a Sisterhood through Suzani, Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town
2015	Cape Town Art Fair, The Avenue, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
	Wet Paint, Die Voorkamer, Cape Town
	Surface: Emerging South African Painters, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
	Out of Context, UJ Art Gallery, Johannesburg
	Pink, Chandler House, Cape Town
	New Voices 01 - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town
2014	Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg
	Cubicle, Infecting the City Public Arts Festival, Cape Town
	Cape Town Art Fair, The Pavillion, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
	SA Art Now, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam
	Art in Red Light #10, Art Fair, Amsterdam
	Florabunda, Die Voorkamer, Cape Town
2013	One in a Million, Salon 91, Cape Town
	I’d Rather Be Swimming, Salon 91, Cape Town
	Collections and Archives, Salon 91, Cape Town
	In Good Company, Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town
	Cape Town Art Fair, The Look Out, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
2012	Impression: Sunset, Salon 91, Cape Town
2010	First Edition, These Four Walls Gallery, Cape Town