SUPER BORING - Wayne Barker

COLLECTIONS
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WAYNE BARKER
1995 Laager, [group exhibition], 1 st Johannesburg Biennale,
South Africa
Spring Time in Chile, [group exhibition], Museum of
Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
1993 Coke Adds Life, [solo exhibition], Everard Read
Contemporary Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1992 Bodies of Love, [solo exhibition], Everard Read
Contemporary Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1987 Images on Metal, [solo exhibition], Market Theatre
Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2008 Modern and Contemporary Art: Then Now and Beyond,
Polokwane Art Museum, Polokwane, South Africa
Co-curated with Dr. Fred Scott
1996 The Young and Restless: Not Allowed, Sandton Civic
Gallery, South Africa. Co-curated with Kendell Geers
1995 Spring Time in Chile, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Santiago Chile
Scurvy, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town,
South Africa. Co-curated with Brett Murray
Brown and Green, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria,
South Africa
Can Art Exist Alone? Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria,
South Africa
1989 Klapperkop, South African Association of the Arts,
Pretoria, South Africa
Anglo American Collection, Durban Art Gallery, Gencor Collection, Gertrude Posel
Gallery - University of Witwatersrand, Iziko South African National Gallery, Johannesburg
Art Gallery, MTN Collection, Polokwane Art Museum, Pretoria Art Museum, Rand
Merchant Bank, SABC Collection, Sanlam Collection, Sandton Civic Gallery
AUTHORS
Andrew Lamprecht lectures in Theory and Discourse of Art at the Michaelis School of FineArt,
University of Cape Town. He has a multi-faceted academic profi le and respected as a lecturer and
researcher. Andrew Lamprecht has an active interest in contemporary South African Art, as a writer,
curator and occasionally as a practitioner.
Simon Njami is an independent lecturer and art critic, and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Revue
Noire. He is also a consultant in visual arts for the Association Française d’Action Artistique. His
extensive publications include essays in the catalogue for the Sydney Biennale and contributions
to a wide range of other exhibition catalogues. Njami has been the artistic director of the Bamako
photography biennale since 2001, and was the curator of the fi rst African pavilion at the 52nd
Venice Biennale in 2007. He has curated numerous exhibitions of African art and photography,
including Africa Remix, which is touring the world and Johannesburg Biennale.
Ashraf Jamal teaches Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University. He is a recognized
playwright, novelist and cultural analyst. Jamal has been involved in numerous seminal publications
as co-author of Art South Africa: The Future Present; the co-editor of Indian Ocean Studies: Social,
Cultural and Political Perspectives and the author of Predicaments of Culture in South Africa.
Carol Brown is freelance writer and curator and art consultant. Currently the curator of the Moses
Mabhida Stadium collection, Brown is former director of the Durban Art Gallery with exhibitions
which include Positive 2007, Not Alone 2009 and Past/Present 2009 to her credit.
Thembinkosi Goniwe is an art lecturer at the Art Department of Wits University. He received an
MA(FA) from the university of Cape Town in 1999, where he also served as an assistant lecturer
of drawing and printmaking. He is currently completing his doctoral studies in History of Art at
Cornell University, New York. He has been included in, and has curated numerous national and
international exhibitions.
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