Berni Searle

Berni Searle (born 7 July 1964) is a South African artist who works with photography, video, and film to produce lens-based installations that stage narratives connected to history, memory, and place. Often politically and socially engaged, her work also draws on the universal emotions associated with vulnerability, loss and beauty.

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• Education
• Awards
• Nominations and shortlists
• Solo exhibitions
• Group exhibitions
• References

Searle lives and works in Cape Town and is currently Associate Professor at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town.

Education

Searle received her BA in Fine Art in 1987 and a postgraduate diploma in Education in 1988 from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. She registered for the master's degree in sculpture in 1992 and proceeded to graduate in 1995 with a Master of Arts in Fine Arts in 1995, also from the Michaelis School.

Awards

UNESCO/AICA Award at the Cairo Biennale (1998)

Minister of Culture prize at the Dak’art Biennale (2000)

Civitella Ranieri Fellowship (2001)

Standard Bank Young Artist Award (2003)

Rockefeller Bellagio Creative Arts Fellow (2014)

Nominations and shortlists

FNB VITA Art Award (2000)

Daimler-Chrysler Award for South African Contemporary Art (2000)

Artes Mundi award (2004)

Solo exhibitions

2011: Interlaced, De Hallen, the Belfry Tower, Bruges; Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (MMKA), Arnhem, Netherlands; Frac Lorraine, Metz, France (with new commissioned work)

2011: Shimmer, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town

2012: Black Smoke Rising Trilogy, Ron Mandos gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2013: Refuge, La Galerie Particuliere, Paris

Group exhibitions

1997: 2nd Johannesburg Biennale

2001: Venice Biennale

2005: Venice Biennale

She Devil, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO)

Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York City.

2010–2011: The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe, 8th International Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2011: Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011.

2012: The Human Condition, Bradbury Gallery, State University, Arkansas

2013: Terminal. As part of the program LAND, various locations across the City of Cape Town. Organized by GIPCA, curated by Jean Brundrit and Svea Josephy and Adrienne van Eeden Wharton

2014: Public Intimacy. Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in conjunction with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

2014: Earth Matters, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

2015: Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive, The Walther Collection, Ulm, Germany. Curated by Tamar Garb