Curriculum Vitae
Usha Seejarim was born in 1974 in South Africa. She currently lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2016
Lizamore@Clairvaux, Clairvaux, Robertson, Cape Town, South Africa
2015
timeline, The Bag Factory Artist’s Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa 2015
Twenty: art in the time of democracy, curated by Gordon Froud,
University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa; Turchin
Centre, North Carolina, USA; Beijing biennale, Beijing, China
2015
Venus at Home (solo exhibition), Durban Art Gallery, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
2015
Nirox Winter Sculpture Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
2014
Pre-election Connection, Wits Art Museum (WAM), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
2014
Venus at Home (solo exhibition), NWU Gallery, Northwest University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
2013
Venus at Home (solo exhibition), Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg, South Africa
2012
Venus at Home (solo exhibition), Atherstone Gallery, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa
2011
Where do we migrate to?, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA
2009/10
Mine over Matter (solo exhibition), Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
2009
Innovative Women, Constitutional Court, Johannesburg, South Africa
2009
Postcards to the Edge, Guth Gafa Documentary Film Festival, Gortahork, Ireland
2008/09
Latitudes 2007, Terres du Monde, Havanna (cat)
2007/08
Latitudes 2007, Terres du Monde, Paris, France (cat)
2007
Sasol Wax Art Award, Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg, South Africa (cat)
2006
The Hole Truth (solo exhibition), Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
2005
Another World, VIth African Photographic Encounters, Bamako, Mali (cat)
2005
JP Blachere Foundation (photography workshop & exhibition), Joucas, France
2005
Master Classes (photography workshop), Bamako, Mali
2004
in place, (solo exhibition), Gallery Momo, Johannesburg, South Africa
2004
Post, curated by Kenji Shiraishi & Monna Mokoena, Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan (cat)
2004
Sugar in the Petrol, curated by Doris Bloom, Festival fotografia, Rome, Italy; Festival filosofia, Modena, Carpi, Sassuolo
2004
A Place Called Home, curated by Zayd Minty, NSA Durban, South African National Gallery (SANG), Cape Town; Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg, South Africa (cat)
2003
Latitudes 2003, curated by Regine Cuzin, Hotel Deville, Paris, France (cat)
2003
Forms in Transit (solo exhibition), NSA (Natal Society for the Arts), Durban
2003
Show Me Home, curated by Mads Damsbo, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (cat)
2003
Playtime (festival hosted by the French Institute), Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa
2003
How Latitudes become Forms, curated by Philippe Vergne, Douglas Fogle & Olukemi Ilesanmi, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Torino, Mexico City and Monterrey, USA (cat)
2002
FNB Vita Art Award, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (Cat)
2002
Sublimation, curated by Katherine Smith, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Outshoorn, South Africa (Cat)
2002
Videoformes 2002, curated by Clive van den Berg, Carnet de voyage: Afrique du Sud, Expositions Festival, Paris, France (Cat)
2001
Self, curated by Clive van den Berg, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Outshoorn, South Africa (Cat)
2001
MTN New Contemporaries, curated by Clive Kellner, Camouflage, Johannesburg, South Africa (Cat)
2001
Joubert Park Public Art Project, Johannesburg Art Gallery and Joubert Park Precinct, Johannesburg, South Africa
2001
Fresh, artist in residence, IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (series of Monographs & Zanazo, Vol.2, No.1, p.11)
2000
Urban Futures, Rembrandt van Rijn, Market Theater, Johannesburg, South Africa
2000
Interchange – Moving Images, curated by autopsia, Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium
1999
Isinto, curated by Tumelo Mosaka and Zayd Minty, IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1999 \
Long Distance (solo exhibition), Generator Art Space, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa
1998
Ethiopian Arts and Culture Festival, Ethiopia
1997
50 Stories, curated by Storm van Rensburg and Tracey Rose, 50th floor of the Carlton Center, Johannesburg, South Africa
1996
Technikon Witwatersrand student exhibition, Rembrandt van Rijn, Market Theater, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa
AWARDS
2013
Nominated for Mbokodo Award in sculpture
2008
Finalist, Mercedes Benz Award for Art in Public Spaces
2008
Best Use of new Commissioned Art Awarded to the Sandton Central Arts Programme by Business Day-Business and Arts South Africa Award (BASA) for the “Why Men”
2007
Finalist, Sasol Wax Art Award, Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), South Africa
2003
Ampersand Fellowship, (March, April), New York, USA
2002
Finalist, First National Bank (FNB) Vita Art Award,South Africa
2001
MTN Special Art Award presented to VACA, South Africa
2001
Merit Award, Bursary, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
2001
Co-winner, MTN New Contemporaries, South Africa
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE ART COMMISSIONS AND PROJECTS
2015
Light installations for the Embassy of Switzerland, Pretoria, South Africa
2014
Pebble mosaic, Prince Albert, South Africa
2013
Wire drawing of Nelson Mandela, Discovery Leadership Summit, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa
2013
Official portrait for Nelson Mandela’s funeral, Qunu, South Africa
2010
BRT station, Mooki Street, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa
2009/10
Why Men illuminated public sculpture, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
2008/09
Why Men illuminated public sculpture, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
2009
Giant light sculpture, Mzansi Store, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
2008
Sun Screens, South African Embassy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2008
Sculptures illustrating the Freedom Charter, Walter Sisulu Square, Kliptown, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa
2008
Site specific “mural”, Eskom head office, Woodmead, Johannesburg, South Africa
2007/08
Why Men illuminated public sculpture, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
2007
Cascoland (public art project), Drill Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa
2006
In recognition of Mahatma Gandhi, memorial/marker celebrating Sunday Time’s centenary. Public artwork, Fordsburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
2005
Christmas Tree, Anglo American and de Beers, Main Street, Johannesburg, South Africa
2005
Pin Code, MTN, MTN head office, Fairlands, Johannesburg, South Africa
2002
Billboard for the Art in the City Project, Cell C, Johannesburg, South Africa
2000
Levi’s Vintage Clothing (cat May/June 2000), Sandton City, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS – SUCH INITIATIVE (www.suchinitiative.org)
2011
Something that rolls up, COP 17, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
2011
The ant and the whistling thorn tree, First National Bank (FNB), Johannesburg, South Africa
2011
B.E.E, Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), Johannesburg, South Africa
2011
Nonkululelo the hippo, iSimangaliso Heritage Park, St Lucia, South Africa
2011
Infecting the City: slices of life, Cape Town, South Africa
2010/11
Tomorrow’s Joy (bottle top mosaic), Arts Alive, Johannesburg; Grahamstown, OR Tambo International Airport, South Africa
2010
Infecting the City: mandala for healing, St George’s cathedral, Cape Town, South Africa
