signs and symbols

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 Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Group shows include We paint! at Beaux-Arts de Paris, France (2021); Mapping Worlds at the Norval Foundation, Cape Town (2019); Assessing Abstraction at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2018); Gestalt & Becoming at Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph, Berlin (2016), Exchange at Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (2016); Home Truths: Domestic Interiors in South Africa at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2016); Material Matters: New Art from Africa at the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis (2015); Handle with Care!, the ninth Ostrale International Exhibition of Contemporary Art at the Ostrale Centre, Dresden (2015); Thinking, Feeling, Head, Heart at 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 current 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.