Paul Edmunds
Available Works
About
Paul Edmunds was born in 1970 in Johannesburg, and currently lives in Cape Town. Recent exhibitions include The Road to Natural Selection is Fraught with Random Mutation (2019), Braids (2016), and Elemental (2015) at WHATIFTHEWORLD. He has also exhibited with Stevenson and Blank Projects, Cape Town, as well as RH Gallery in New York. Notable group exhibitions include Seeds of the Fig (2022); The Rainbow Nation, an exhibition of three generations of sculpture from South Africa, at Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague (2012); Coming of Age: 21 Years of Artist Proof Studio at Johannesburg Art Gallery (2012); Impressions from South Africa at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011). He won the Tollman Award in 2007, and in 2010 was awarded the Ampersand Foundation residency in New York.
Edmunds’ work is included in various private and public collections including; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The South African National Gallery; The Sasol Art Collection; and The Carnegie Art Gallery, Newcastle.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2024 | Substantial - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, South Africa |
| 2019 | The Road to Natural Selection is Fraught with Random Mutation - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape town, South Africa |
| 2016 | Untitled Art Miami Beach 2016 - Miami |
| Braids - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, South Africa | |
| 2015 | Elemental - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, South Africa |
| 2013 | Season, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 2011 | Pitch, RH Gallery, New York |
| Tone, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa | |
| 2009 | Subtropicalia, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa |
| 2008 | Aggregate, Bank Gallery, Durban, South Africa |
| 2007 | Array, Art on Paper Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 2005 | Phenomena, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa |
| 2003 | Cloud, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa |
| 2001 | Houding, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2022 | Seeds of the Fig - Twee Jonge Gezellen Wine Estate, Krone x WHATIFTHEWORLD, Tulbagh, South Africa |
| 2018 | Both, and, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa |
| 2014 | Artists Engaged? Maybe, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon |
| 2013 | The Loom of the Land, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 2012 | If A Tree…, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| The Rainbow Nation, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, Netherlands | |
| The Third Meaning II, RH Gallery, New York | |
| Coming of Age: 21 Years of the Artist Proof Studio, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| Unspecified Urban Site, RH Gallery, New York | |
| 2011 | Impressions from South Africa: 1965 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| 2010 | The Third Meaning, RH Gallery, New York |
| 2009 | Social Pattern, AVA, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Summer Show, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa | |
| 2008 | Production Marks: Geometry, Psychology and the Electronic Age, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown; KZNSA, Durban; Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 2005 | In the Making: Material and Process, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa |
| 2003 | HIV(E), Franchise, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Prints and Multiples, Warren Siebrits Modern & Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| 2002 | Silence/Violence, Greg Streak, Durban and Nieubethesda |
| Bodies II: Sublimation, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn, South Africa | |
| 2000 | Cast, Bronze Age Foundry, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Images of Self, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn, South Africa | |
| Unplugged V, Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| Group Show, Canberra Institute of Art, Canberra |
Presentations
| 2021 | Zoophilia |
Awards
2010 The Ampersand Foundation residency, NYC
2007 The Tollman Award
1992 The Volkskas Atelier Award
Permanent Collections
The South African National Gallery
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Sasol Art Collection
The Gencor Collection
The Dimension Data collection
Rand Merchant Bank International collection
The Marvelous Collection, Johannesburg
The Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg
The Durban Art Gallery
The Carnegie Art Gallery, Newcastle
The Empangeni Art and Cultural History Museum
The KwaZulu Natal Museum Services collection
Selected Publications
2005 Sophie Perryer (ed), ‘In the Making: Materials and Process’, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
2004 Sophie Perryer (ed), ‘10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a democratic South Africa’, Bell Roberts, Cape Town
2004 Greg Streak (ed), ‘HIV(E)’, Pulse, Durban
2003 Michael Stevenson and Annabel Rosholt, ‘Moving in Time and Space: shifts between abstraction and representation in post war South African art’, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
2003 ‘Art@Arabella’, The Arabella Sheraton catalogue, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town
2001 Lucia Burger and Teresa Lizamore (eds), ‘Sasol: 1991 – 2001’, US Museum, Stellenbosch