Zander Blom
born 1982 in Pretoria, South Africa
lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa
zander blom's previous solo shows include Polaris and Ursa Minor at the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean in Port Louis (2017); New Works at Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (2021, 2017, 2015); Place and Space at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah and also in Atlanta (2011-12); The Black Hole Universe at Galerie van der Mieden in Antwerp and also at 5x6x9 in Berlin (2010); in addition to exhibitions at STEVENSON, in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Group exhibitions include We paint!, Beaux-Arts de Paris, France (2021); Mapping Worlds, Norval Foundation, Cape Town (2019); Assessing Abstraction, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2018); Gestalt & Becoming, Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph, Berlin (2016), Exchange, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (2016); Home Truths: Domestic Interiors in South Africa, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2016); Material Matters: New Art from Africa, Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis (2015); Handle with Care!, the ninth Ostrale International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Ostrale Centre, Dresden (2015); Thinking, Feeling, Head, Heart, The New Church Museum, Cape Town (2015); The Evolution of Art 1830-2140, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin (2013); The Global Contemporary: Art worlds after 1989, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany (2011); Ampersand, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (2010); and ZA: Young art from South Africa, Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (2008).
In 2014, Blom won the third Jean-François Prat Prize for contemporary art in Paris, and in 2016, he was included in a group exhibition as part of the fifth edition of the prize at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Blom is included in Phaidon’s anthology of contemporary painting Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting (2016). His second catalogue raissonné Paintings: Volume II, with an essay by Nicola Trezzi, was released in 2016, following the publication of his first monograph, Paintings: Volume I with an essay by Courtney J. Martin, in 2013.
selected works
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