Lwandiso Njara :: Curriculum Vitae

Exhibitions

2020

– CURE. Online project, UJ Art Gallery/Moving Cube

– Of Thee I Sing – Lizamore & Associates, Johannesburg

– Phantasmagoria – Lizamore & Associates, Johannesburg

– God Engineering – St Lorient art gallery, Pretoria

2019

– Contemporaneite Australe, At MECA, Bordeaux, France

– They Journeyed South, AFSACSA /SAFFCA Foundation, France

2018

– In My Book of Transformation, Trent Art Gallery, 2018, Pretoria

– Engineering the New Jerusalem – Trent art gallery, February 2018, Pretoria

– Engineering the New Jerusalem II – Lizamore & Associates, 2018, Johannesburg

– Engineering the New Jerusalem II – FynArts gallery, 2018, Hermanus

– FynArts Festival – Gearings Point, 2018, Hermanus

2016

– Altar – Association of Arts Pretoria, June 2016

– A Place in Time – Nirox Winter Sculpture Show – Nirox Sculpture Park Maropeng, May – July 2016

– African Equations, group exhibition at Lizamore & Associates, Johannesburg

– Two-man exhibition with Carl Jeppe, UJ Art Gallery, Johannesburg

2014

– Nirox Winter Sculpture Show – Nirox Sculpture Park, Maropeng, May – July 2014

2013

– Neo-Baroque – Fried Contemporary Gallery, Pretoria, 26 October – 23 November 2013

– Multiple Identities with Gordon Froud – Trent Gallery, Pretoria, September 2013

– Trans-Africa – Absa Art Gallery, Johannesburg

– After the Rainbow Nation 2013 – Nirox Sculpture Park and Nirox Projects, Arts on Main, Johannesburg

– Engage II World Art Day Exhibition – Pretoria Art Association, Pretoria, 15 April 2013 – 26 April 2013

2012

– Pathways with Malose Pete – Pretoria Art Association, 15 June – 4 July 2012

– Ode to Over-Consumerism: Rooftop IV – St Lorient Fashion & Art Gallery, Pretoria, 29 September – 18 November 2012

– Group show with Diane Victor – Ron Belling Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth

– Art South Africa contemporary art auction/group exhibition, Cape Town

– Winners exhibition of the PPC Young Sculptor Competition at the Pretoria Art Association

2011

– Previous winners of PPC Cement (YCSA) Competition – Pretoria Art Association, 6 May – 25 May 2011

– Exhibition with Joel Tsepho Sebothoma – Trent Art Gallery, Pretoria

2010

– African Narrative – St Lorient Fashion & Art Gallery, Pretoria

– Essence of Perfume – St Lorient Fashion & Art Gallery, Pretoria

Awards

2012

– First Prize – Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Award

– Merit Award – Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) Young Sculptor Award Competition

2009

– Runner Up Prize – Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) Young Sculptor Award Competition

Art Competition Judging and Selection Panels

– Adjudicator at the Thami Mnyele Fine Art Awards 2013

Commissions

– Absa Cape Epic 2014 (bronze cast trophies)

Collections

– Private collections

– Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) Offices, Sandton Johannesburg

– St. Lorient Fashion & Art gallery, Pretoria

– The President’s Bryntirion Estate, Pretoria

– Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria

– Eduardo Villa Museum, The University of Pretoria, Pretoria

– Fried Contemporary Art Gallery, Pretoria

– University of Pretoria

– University of South Africa (UNISA)