Alison Kearney
Alison Kearney is a Johannesburg based artist, researcher and arts educator with a multi-disciplinary research praxis focused on exploring epistemologies of art. Her praxis includes making artworks that critically engage with the discourses and institutions of art as well as theorising modernist and contemporary African artworks that challenge inherited, western discourses of art. These interests are brought into her teaching through what and how she teaches university students, as well as the educational work that Alison does with diverse audiences in the Wits Art Museum. Alison is committed to writing about African art that challenges Western epistemologies of art; to make explicit the ways in which art making and theorizing art can be understood as research praxis; and to contribute to decolonizing art history by developing unorthodox ways of writing about art.
Alison’s artworks have been included in numerous group exhibitions in South Africa and abroad. In 2008 she held her fourth solo exhibition titled ‘Offerings’, at The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg [January to February 2008]. Parts of this exhibition were exhibited in a solo exhibition at the KZNSA in Durban, titled ‘Put Something in to take Something Out’ in May 2008. Since 2022 Alison has been developing a new body of work titled “The Museum Under Erasure” through which she interrogates issues to do with how value is determined in culture and challenge the institutions of art through performativity and parody. Her public performance works enable an exploration of the role of the audience in making meaning and contributing to the creative process when engaging with conceptual art.
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