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 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
| 2019 | The Road to Natural Selection is Fraught with Random Mutation |
| 2016 | Untitled Art Miami Beach 2016 - Miami |
| Braids - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town | |
| 2015 | Elemental - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town |
| 2013 | Season, Stevenson, Johannesburg |
| 2011 | Pitch, RH Gallery, New York |
| Tone, Stevenson, Cape Town | |
| 2009 | Subtropicalia, Stevenson, Cape Town |
| 2008 | Aggregate, Bank Gallery, Durban |
| 2007 | Array, Art on Paper Gallery, Johannesburg |
| 2005 | Phenomena, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town |
| 2003 | Cloud, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town |
| 2001 | Houding, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2018 | Both, and, Stevenson, Cape Town |
| 2014 | Artists Engaged? Maybe, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon |
| 2013 | The Loom of the Land, Stevenson, Johannesburg |
| 2012 | If A Tree…, Stevenson, Johannesburg |
| 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 | |
| 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 | Summer Show, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town |
| Social Pattern, AVA, Cape Town | |
| 2008 | Production Marks: Geometry, Psychology and the Electronic Age, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown; KZNSA, Durban; Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg |
| 2005 | In the Making: Material and Process, Stevenson, Cape Town |
| 2003 | HIV(E), Franchise, Johannesburg |
| Prints and Multiples, Warren Siebrits Modern & Contemporary, Johannesburg | |
| 2002 | Silence/Violence, Greg Streak, Durban and Nieubethesda |
| Bodies II: Sublimation, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn | |
| 2000 | Cast, Bronze Age Foundry, Cape Town |
| Images of Self, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn | |
| Unplugged V, Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg | |
| Group Show, Canberra Institute of Art, Canberra |
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