Anton Kannemeyer

(South African, born 1967)

self-portrait: wrong side of history by anton kannemeyer

Anton Kannemeyer

Self-Portrait: Wrong Side of History, 2021

2,000 EUR

extinction by anton kannemeyer

Anton Kannemeyer

Extinction

13,000 EUR

post racial white by anton kannemeyer

Anton Kannemeyer

Post Racial White, 2020

4,500 EUR

raw deal by anton kannemeyer

Anton Kannemeyer

Raw deal, 2019

6,000 EUR

the leopard man strikes quietly by anton kannemeyer

Anton Kannemeyer

The Leopard Man Strikes Quietly, 2022

15,000 EUR

Biography

Timeline

1967
Born in Cape Town
1991
BA, Fine Arts (Applied Graphics) at the University of Stellenbosch, with distinction 1993

Received Edrich Award for best art student, University of Stellenbosch
1993
BA, Fine Arts (Graphic Techniques) cum laude at the University of Stellenbosch, with Honors 1997
1997
MA, Fine Arts cum laude at the University of Stellenbosch
1998
Received Two Silver Loerie Awards, Pendoring Campaign: posters, with Lindsay Smithers

Received Loerie Craft Award, Pendoring Campaign: posters, with Lindsay Smithers

Won Gold Loerie Award, Pendoring Campaign: animation, with Lindsay Smithers
2000
Received Gold Loerie Award, Bitterjusi 13: publication; with Orange Juice Design
2003
Received Silver Loerie Award, Purity campaign: magazine publication & posters, with Hunt Lascaris

Received Gold Eagle Award, Purity campaign: magazine publication & posters, with Hunt Lascaris
2006
Awarded Art Omi International Artists Residency, New York
Lives and works in Cape Town

Exhibitions

2014
Anton Kannemeyer Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Such, Such Were the Joys, Stevenson, Cape Town, April 10 – May 24, 2014(solo exhibition)
Theory of Colour, Museo Universitario Art Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City, Mexico, September 11,2014–January 17, 2015
Africa Now: Political Patterns, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, December 16, 2014 – February 15, 2015
Public Intimacy: Art and Social Life in South Africa, Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts and SFMoMA, San Francisco, USA, February – June 29, 2014
Meeting Points 7: Ten Thousand Wiles & A Hundred Thousand Tricks, ParaSite, Hong Kong, March 1 – April 20; Beirut Art Centre, Beirut, April 1 – May 3; 21er Haus, Vienna, May 9 – August 31; Institute for African Studies, Moscow, July 7 – August 22, 2014
Mise En Scène, The School, Kinderhook, NY, August – December 2014
2013
Anton Kannemeyer Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
South Africa Revisited, Galerie Zwitschermaschine, Berlin, Germany, October 4 – 13, 2013
Sharp Sharp Johannesburg, La Gaite Lyrique, Paris, France, October 12 – November 8, 2013
The Loom of the Land, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, January 24 –February 22, 2013
Pop Goes the Revolution, The New Church, Cape Town, October 10, 2013 – April 1, 2014
Meeting Points 7: Ten Thousand Wiles & A Hundred Thousand Tricks, Museum of Modern Art (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium, October 24, 2013 – February 16, 2014
2012
Anton Kannemeyer Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Paintings and Prints for Doctors and Dentists, Stevenson, Johannesburg, May 31–June 29, 2012(solo exhibition)
We’re not armed, don’t shoot, Raum Linksrechts, Hamburg, Germany, March 24 – April 15, 2012
Bitterkomix: Contemporary Comics from South Africa, Llotja del Cànem, Seu de la Ciutat de la Universitat, Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain, March 30 – April 29, 2012
Things Beyond Our Control, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, July 14 – August 13, 2014
Taboo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, December 19, 2012 – February 24, 2013
2011
Anton Kannemeyer Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Anton Kannemeyer: After the Barbarians, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, October 13–November 12, 2011(solo exhibition)
What we talk about when we talk about love, Stevenson, Cape Town, December 1, 2011–January 14, 2012(solo exhibition)
Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, The Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries, Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 23–August 14, 2011. Curated by Judith B. Hecker (Catalogue)
Co/mix, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa, June 30–July 10, 2011
What we talk about when we talk about love, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, December 2011 – January 2012
2010
Anton Kannemeyer Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Anton Kannemeyer: A Dreadful Thing is About to Occur, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, April, 22–May 29, 2010(solo exhibition)
Anton Kannemeyer: Alphabet of Democracy, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, December 2,2010–January 15, 2011, (Catalogue)(solo exhibition)
Peekaboo: Current South Africa, Helsinki Art Museum, Finland, August 20, 2010–January 16, 2011
Coca-colonized, Hilger Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna, September 16–November 20, 2010. Traveled to: Museo de Arte de El Salvador (MARTE), San Salvador, May 5–July 3, 2011. Curated by Claire Breukel
Party Crashers: Comic Book Culture Invades the Art World, Arlington Arts Center, Virginia, November 19,2010–January 16, 2011 (Catalogue)
Anton, Hylton, Serge, Viviane and Claudette at Michael Stevenson Gallery, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, December 2, 2010–January 15, 2011
Summer 2010/2011 , Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, December 2010–January 2011
Philigrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious , The Print Center, Philadelphia, January 29–April 11, 2010
NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition , Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art, New York, March 12–August 29, 2010
1910–2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, April 13–October 3, 2010
…For Those Who Live in It: Popculture, Politics and Strong Voices, MU Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 21–August 1, 2010
Halakasha!, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, June 2–July 17, 2010. Curated by Fional RankinSmith
This is Our Time, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, June 3–July 24, 2010
Bitterkomix, Rio Loco Festival, Toulouse, France. Traveled to: Ti Piment Festival, Espace my.monkey, Nancy, France, June 9–July 14, 2010
Exquisite Corpse Project, Gasser Grunert Gallery, New York, October 12–November 6, 2010. Curated by David Salle
Les Afriques de Papa, Espace du Collectif Sadi, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, October 22–24, 2010
2009
Anton Kannemeyer Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Anton Kannemeyer: Works on Paper, Brodie/Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, November 12–December 15, 2009(solo exhibition)
Bitterkomix: Un certain regard sur l'Afrique du Sud, Angoulême International Comics Festival, France,January–March 2009
Self/Not-self, Brodie/Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, February 19–March 21, 2009
Anton Kannemeyer, Conrad Botes & Henning Wagenbreth: Recent prints and drawings, Gallery AOP,Johannesburg, March 2009
Cyclone BD international comics festival, St. Denis, Reunion, France
2008
Anton Kannemeyer Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
Anton Kannemeyer: The Haunt of Fears, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, April 17–May 17, 2008(solo exhibition)
Anton Kannemeyer: Fear of a Black Planet, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, October 16–November 22, 2008 (Catalogue)(solo exhibition)
2007
Anton Kannemeyer Selected Exhibitions in 2007:
Anton Kannemeyer: New Work, Beam Gallery, Spier Estate, Stellenbosch/Cape Town, August–September 2007(solo exhibition)
South African Art: Modern art and cultural development in a changing Society, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovenia, September 9–November 2007. Curated by Edwin Meulensteen
Artisti a Castagnoli, Gaiole in Chianti, Tuscany, Italy, October–November 2007
Flesh!, Main programme, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn 2007–2008
From_&_To: From Trentino South Tyrol to the Rest of the World and Back, Kunst Merano Arte, Merano, Italy, October 2007–January 2008
Summer 2007/2008, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, November 2007–January 2008
2006
Anton Kannemeyer Selected Exhibitions in 2006:
Anton Kannemeyer: More Days of My Lives, Art on Paper, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, June 2006(solo exhibition)
Bitterkomix, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, November 2006
Out of Context, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town, January 31–March 4, 2006
Anton Kannemeyer and Conrad Botes: Bitterkomix, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, October 24–November 25, 2006 (Catalogue)
Africa Comics, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, November 15, 2006–March 18, 2007
South African Art Now, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, November 29, 2006–January 6, 2007
2005
Anton Kannemeyer Selected Exhibitions in 2005:
Anton Kannemeyer: Days of My Lives, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town, November 8, 2005–January 21, 2006(solo exhibition)

Public Collections

Art Omi Collection, New York
Hollard/Spier Collection, Johannesburg & Stellenbosch
Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
JS Gericke Library Special Collection, University of Stellenbosch
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
National Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
Special Collections Division, Michigan State University