Michele Mathison
Michele Mathison was born in 1977, South Africa, and grew up in Harare, Zimbabwe. Mathison completed his BFA at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts, at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Most recently, Mathison’s work was acquired by the Celine Art Project, curated by Hedi Slimane for Celine Shanghai, Taipei and Hangzhou.
Selected solo exhibitions include: CIVILIAN (2023) and Over and Over (2021), both at Whatiftheworld Gallery in Cape Town; Dissolution (2018) and Uproot (2016) both at Tyburn Gallery, London, UK. Mathison's work notably formed part of the Zimbabwean pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, with the same body work later exhibited at the inauguratory exhibition at the Zeitz MOCAA museum in 2017.
In 2021, the artist completed a series of three significant public sculptures, commissioned by North-West University and installed on various sites on campus. In 2018, he presented the large-scale work Parallax at Frieze Sculpture in London, while in 2017 he installed the public sculpture Angular Mass for the V&A Waterfront and Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town.
Selected group exhibitions include: Falling Awake curated by RESERVOIR at The Fourth, Cape Town in 2021; Inner Landscapes at Galleria Anna Marra, Rome, Italy in 2019; Broken English at Tyburn Gallery, London in 2015; as well as various international art fairs between 2015 and 2024 including Artissima, Miart, 1:54 London and Cape Town Art Fair.
His work is included in collections such as the Norval Foundation’s Homestead collection, the Zeitz MOCAA permanent collection, the Leridon Collection, Spier Arts Trust and the Standard Bank Art Collection.
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