Artist CV

(b 1983ZA. Lives and works in Johannesburg)

Barnett uses drawing, printmaking, photography, moving image and installation to examine particular locations in relation to the body, time and scale. Her work makes connections between the geographical, the experienced and the materiality of surfaces, and questions the relationship between theoretical, surmised and accidental logic.

2012

The Dragon is the Frame, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL 

I Accidentally Turned Off the Sun: 2012 UIC Art MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 400,  Chicago, IL 

2011

Where are we exactly - are we near the island? The island- is that what you call it?,  Outlet Project Room, Johannesburg 

Camera Obscura, Point Bridge, Chicago

Bronx Calling: Bronx AIM Biennial at Bronx Museum of Art, New York 

Afropolis at Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne 

2010

SA2010 at Galerie 3,14, Bergen, Norway ISIS Arts, Newcastle, UK

2009

Double Body, Fada Gallery, Johannesburg

2008

Near Sighted, Far Out at Harvestworks, New York

The New Spell at David Krut Fine Arts, New York

2007

Spier Contemporary 2007, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Armed Response Exhibition at the Goethe Institute in Johannesburg 

Absa Le'Atelier exhibition at the Absa gallery in Johannesburg 

2006

Kazoo - Play, Action, Intervention in Public and Private Space - Premises Gallery,  Johannesburg 

Sasol New Signatures exhibition - Pretoria Art Museum. 

HIV: I Love You Positive Or Negative group show - Alliance Francaise Johannesburg 

Real Presence06 - Belgrade, Serbia 

2012

ACRE Residency - Stueben, Wisconsin 

Harold Arts Residency - Chesterhill, Ohio  

2011

Sober and Lonely Institute for Contemporary Art Residency - Johannesburg South  Africa  

Edlis-Neeson Award from School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at  Chicago 

2009

AIM - Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of Art, New York 

AIM (Artist in the Marketplace) artist for 2009 – Bronx Museum of Art, New York  

2008

Cité Internationale des Arts - Paris, France  

2007

Spier Contemporary Award in Cape Town, South Africa 

Gerard Sekoto Award in the Absa L'Atelier Awards, Merit Award in the Absa L'Atelier  Awards 

2006

Real Presence 06 - Belgrade, Serbia  

Giovanna Milner Scholarship for distinguished work in practical Fine Art and History  of Art from Witwatersrand University 

2005

Martienssen Prize from Witwatersrand University 

IN/FLUX: Mediatrips from the African World - Collection of African Video Art, curated by SPARCK and Lowave (South Africa/France) 

Bronx Calling: Catalogue from the first AIM Biennial 2011 

2012

Master of Fine Arts degree at University of Illinois at Chicago 

2006

Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, with  distinction.