Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Sister, 2018. © Copyright the artist
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
Born in 1980
Lives & works in Toronto, Canada and Johannesburg, South Africa
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Award - Brandywine Prints Workshop Young Artist Fellowship, Philadelphia PA, USA - 2010
Creative Alliance Multi Media Resources Project Grant, Baltimore MD, USA - 2010
Brenner Faculty Grant for Professional Development, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD, USA - 2010
Private Collections : Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt, Germany; University of South Africa (UNISA) Art Collection, Pretoria, South Africa; 12 Decades Hotel Main Street Life Collection, Johannesburg, South Africa
Collected by museums and foundations FRAC des Pays de la Loire Contemporary Collection, Carquefou, France;
Presentation of the artist
In her recent body of work, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum explores early 19th century studio photography portraits that feature black people posing against hand painted landscape backdrops. Sunstrum is inspired by the manner in which the subjects in these photographs engage in self-mythology and cast their own image.
Her landscapes also expand on themes of timelessness; she reconstructs sites both real and imagined that explore the position of individuals within a vast universe, a concept that recalls 18th century notions of the sublime.
Recent exhibitions include All My Seven Faces, CAC Cincinnati (2019); Diorama, Tiwani Contemporary (2019); Multiple Transmissions: Art in the Afropolitan Age, Wiels, Brussels, Belgium (2019); Fly Me to the Moon, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria (2019); Women on Airplanes, The Showroom, London (2018); Artpace, San Antonio (2018); There are Mechanisms in Place, Michaelis School of Fine Art Galleries, Cape Town (2018).
Nationality : Botswana
In connection with
Tiwani Contemporary, London - United Kingdom
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Born in Mochudi, Botswana
Education
2007
Masters in Fine Art | Mount Royal School of Interdisciplinary Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD, USA
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2004
BA International Studies (Transnational Cultures) | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, USA
Solo exhibitions & presentations
2019
All my Seven Faces, CAC Cincinnati, USA
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2019
Diorama, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
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2018
There are Mechanisms in Place, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa
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2018
Earth and Everything, Artpace, San Antonio TX, USA
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2016
Omphalos, Interlochen Centre for the Arts, Interlochen MI, USA
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2016
Polyhedra, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
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2015
Beacon, VANSA, Johannesburg, South Africa
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2013
ab initio, Davidson College, Davidson NC, USA
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2013
Before Being Asked by the Machine, Room Gallery, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa
Residencies
2018
Earth and Everything, Artpace, San Antonio TX, USA
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2014
Mashup: The Archive Artist Residency, Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth, Germany
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2013
FRAC International Residency, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
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2012
Main Street Life Artist Exchange, Johannesburg, South Africa
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2010
Brandywine Prints Workshop Residency, Philadelphia PA, USA
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Group exhibitions & fairs
2019
Fly me to the Moon, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
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2019
Fly me to the Moon, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
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2019
20 and Odd: The 400-Year Anniversary of Africans Landing at Jamestown in 1619, LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, NY, USA
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2019
Multiple Transmissions: Art in the Afropolitan Age, Wiels, Brussels, Belgium
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2019
Kubatana, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway
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2019
Still Here Tomorrow to High Five You Yesterday, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
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2018
Women on Aeroplanes, The Showroom, London, UK
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2018
Carry Over: New Voices from the Global African Diaspora, Smack Mellon, New York NY, USA
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2018
Drawing in/Drawing out: Contemporary Drawing, The Phillips Museum of Art, Lancaster PA, USA
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2018
Spring Group Show Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
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2016
Cinematek Brussels, ‘Seeing in the Dark’, Art Brussels 2016, Brussels, Belgium
