LIEN BOTHA

1961, born, Pretoria Gauteng

1988, received B.F.A., University of Cape Town

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, Cape Town, A Passage of Wing, October 1989.

SAA of Arts, Cape Town, Rites of Faith, April 1991.

Grahmstown (and touring), Boxing Days, 1997-1998.

Cape Town Castle and SACI, Palazzo dei Cartelloni, Florence, Italy, Radio Maria, March 2002.

KKNK, Oudtshoorn, Safari, March 2004.

MC2a, Bordeaux, France, Shared Exhibitions, October 2005.

Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, Cape Town, Lyn Smuts and Lien Botha, 1994.

The Grain Cellar, Castle, Cape Town, Krotoa's Room (with Raymond Smith), 1995.

AVA, Cape Town, Rhodes Memorial (with Raymond Smith), 1996.

Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, Cape Town, How the land lies (Lyn Smuts, Sophie Peters, Lien Botha), 2000.

AVA, Cape Town, City Hall (with Mariella Poli), 2004.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Iziko Museums: South Africa National Gallery, Cape Town, Recent acquisitions, 1991.

SAA of Arts, CapeTown, Aids Awareness and Safer Sex, 1993.

SAA of Arts, Bellville, Women's Work, 1993.

Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida, Crosscurrents, 1994.

River Club, Observatory, fencing installation, The Locker Room Project, 1994.

BMW Pavilion, Waterfront, Cape Town, Windows on the new SA, 1995.

Contemporary SA Art at the Bath Festival, UK, Transitions, 1995.

Grahamstown Festival, The GAP, 1995.

Hamburgisches Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg, Germany, Noue Graphik aus S_dafrika, 1995.

Museumafrica, Johannesburg, Johannesburg Biennale, 1995.

SANG (a touring exhibition), People's Portraits, 1995.

15 Artistas Da Africa do Sul, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal, Don't mess with Mr. In-between, 1996.

African photographers, Copenhagen, Denmark, Images of the West: Images of Africa Fest, 1996.

Castle, Cape Town, Faultlines (13 artists) Inquiries into truth and reconciliation, 1996.

Paarl Museum, Portraits and Identities, 1996.

SANG permanent collection, Contemporary SA Art 1985-1995, 1996.

Contemporary SA Art, Art Bureau, Munich, Germany, Lifetimes, 1997.

District Six / Zonnebloem, Cape Town, District Six Sculpture Festival, 1997.

Grahamstown festival and touring, Photo synthesis, 1997.

Hardground Printmakers, AVA, Cape Town, Recent Publications, 1997.

SA Arborescence, Nantes Festival, France, Fin de Siécle, 1997.

Antwerp, Louvain, Belgium, SA Fine Art Prints in Belgium, 1998.

Area Gallery, Cape Town, Face, 1998.

A.R.T. Gallery, Paarl, 10 Photographers, 1998.

Museu da Cidadé, Lisbon, Portugal, Memorias Intimas Marcas, 1998.

SAA of Arts, Pretoria, The Spirit of Africa, 1998.

The Open Window, Pretoria, Photographics, 1998.

A.R.T. Gallery, Paarl, Still Life, 1999.

Mikado Gallery, Luxembourg and touring, Project Conflux, 1999.

SANG, Cape Town, Lines of Sight, 1999.

Market Gallery, Johannesburg, Unplugged V, 2000.

Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, Collaboration, 2000.

Bamako, Mali, Lines of sight, 2001.

Harare, Zimbabwe, Topographies, 2001.

Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Aarsel, 2001.

Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Letsels, 2002.

OMC Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany, SA Photographers, 2002.

Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Family Stories, 2002.

Association of Arts, Bellville, Mountain/Berg, 2002.

Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Aspects of HIV/Aids, 2002.

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, California, City Hall, 2003.

S A Museum, Cape Town, Lexicons and Labyrinths, 2003.

Iziko Museums: SA National Gallery, Cape Town, A Decade of Democracy, 2004.

Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan, Post: Contemporary South African Photography, 2004.

Artb Bellville, Cape Town and Association of Arts, Pretoria, Interpreting Landscape, 2005.

Art for Humanity, Durban Art Gallery and Billboards, Women for Children, 2005.

Artaid; Royal College of Art, London, Crusade, 2005.

Bamako Biennale, Mali, Another World, 2005.

France, L'Ete Photographique de Lectoure, 2005.

Joáo Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, Girls Night Out, 2005.

San Francisco, California, Photo San Francisco, 2005.

Theatre Performance with Compagnie des Limbes: Lectoure and Novart, Bordeaux, France, Cutting Water, 2005.

Kornhausforum, Bern Switzerland, 12 African photographers, 2006.

Strydom Art Gallery, George, Home Sweet Home, 2006.

Residencies, Awards & Scholarships

1990 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

1997 Standard Bank Young Artist

2001 Jules Kramer Music and Fine Art Scholarship, U.C.T

2001 MacIver Scholarship

2001 SACI, Florence, Italy, Visiting artist scholarship

2003 SFAI, San Francisco, U.S.A

2004 Festival Artist, KKNK, Oudtshoorn

2005 Nouaison, Pujols, France

2006 Ampersand Fellowship, New York, U.S.A

Exhibitions Curated

1992 Not December, The Artsstrip, Cape Town (co-curator with Raymond Smith)

1994 Photo Works by Women, SAA of Arts, Cape Town

1999 Bloedlyn, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn and AVA, Cape Town

1999 Invincibles, State Theatre Art Gallery, Pretoria (co-curator with Franci Cronjé)

1999 100xC, Cape Town's first Month of Photography (co-curator)

Catalogues/Publications

1995 Johannesburg Biennale

Contemporary SA Art 1985-1995 from the SANG

Don't mess with Mr. In-between, 1996

Boxing days, 1997

District Six Sculpture Project, 1997

Photo Synthesis, Contemporary SA Photography, 1997

Marcas News, Third Edition, Johannesburg, 1998

Project Conflux, 1999

Collaboration, 2000

Lines of Sight, 2001

Cape Town Month of Photography, 2002

Taxi 05, 2002

Lexicons and Labyrinths, 2003

Post, 2004

Sasol: art @ work, 2005

Cape Town Month of Photography, 2005, www.lienbotha.co.za, 2005 Collections

Durban Art Gallery

Exatrade, Cape Town

Johannesburg Art Gallery

Pietersburg Art Gallery

Provincial Libraries, Cape Town

SA National Gallery, Cape Town

Standard Bank Corporate, Johannesburg

Telkom

University of Stellenbosch

University of the Orange Free State

Wellesley College, Massachussetts, USA

Pretoria Art Museum

Durban Institute of Technology

UNISA

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Museum, P.E.

SASOL

MuseumAfrica, Johannesburg

Complete Bodies of Work
1. A passage of wing: mixed media/photo collage, 1989

2. Rites of Faith: Silver prints, 1990

3. Memorabilia: 3D Collages, 1992

4. Africana Collectanea: Photographic constructions, 1994

5. Portrette: Silver prints, 1995

6. Krotoa's Room: mixed media installation (collaboration with Raymond Smith), 1995

7. The washing line: from Faultlines, mixed media installation (liquid light on cotton), 1996

8. Rhodes Memorial: mixed media installation (with Raymond Smith), 1996

9. The home that you built: mixed media installation (District Six Sculpture Project), 1997; text, Karen Press

10. Boxing Days: mixed media installation (Standard Bank Art Festival & Touring), 1997

11. Salver 8/24: selenium-toned silver prints/wooden trays, 1998: Memorias, Intimas, Marcas

12. Geweertjies in die voorhuis, selenium-toned silver prints, 1998

13. Postscript: By land, by sea, by air: colour prints mounted on to polystyrene and placed inside post office boxes, 1998

14. Voëlhuis: Die sirkelstrokie van Maria Blou: mixed media: Oos Wes Tuis Bes, KKNK, 1999

15. Ten trees growing nowhere: UV-laminated copper toned fibre-based prints/bark chips, SANG 1999

16. Ten degrees of separation: digital manipulation: digital prints, 2000

17. Book of gloves: 2001

18. Radio Maria: photographic lambda prints, cotton bales, radio, 2002

19. Photo brooch: 250 photographic brooches, living art installation, 2002

20. Vier Susters: digital colour prints/canvas, 2003

21. Brother's Keeper: mixed media installation, 2003

22. Safari: digital colour prints / cotton paper, 2003

23. Library Hours: Lambda colour prints, 2004

24. Suzy's Lovers: digital colour prints/canvas, 2004

25. After Thunberg: digital colour prints/canvas, 2005

26. Cutting Water: Theatre performance installation

27. Springbok Poems: digital colour prints/drawing/book, 2005, 2006

Employment

1983 Press photographer, Beeld, Pretoria

1984 Co-ordinator: SAMCA Art Department, Stikland Industria, Western Cape

1991 Staff photographer: SA National Gallery, Cape Town

1997-2003 Part-time lecturer: Michaelis School of Fine Art

2003 Part-time lecturer: University of Stellenbosch