Artist CV

Artist's statement

(b 1991ZA. Lives and works in Cape Town)

Sitaara Stodel works with several media, including photography, collage, video and print. Her art mainly explores the concept of what we mean by “home” in its various constructed and deconstructed guises.

Solo exhibitions

2021    
Open House, Everard Read Circa, Cubicle Series, Cape Town
2019    
Unsettled, Solo presentation at Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Smith, Cape Town
 

Group exhibitions

2020    
The Spectacle, The Fourth, Cape Town
Kernel, put together by artists, Cape Town
Apartment Vol.2, The Fourth, Cape Town
Nostalgia, Daor Contemporary, Cape Town
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Smith, Cape Town
2019    
Rocks, Gallery Gallery, Johannesburg; Rendezvous II, Smith, Cape Town; Voices and Choices, Women’s Jail Constitution Hill, Johannesburg
Two Trees, A Collaborative exhibition with Rosie Mudge, Smith, Cape Town
To Thine Own Self Be True, Kelvin Corner, Cape Town
Borderlines, The Third Dot, Mauritius
Outside, RK Contemporary, Cape Town
#FREESPACE, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
The Main Complaint, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
No Ordinary Woman, PH Center, Cape Town
FNB Art Joburg, Smith
JHB 2019 Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Smith, Cape Town
Close Encounters, SMITH, Cape Town
2018    
Shady Tactics, SMAC, Cape Town
2017     
[in] appropriate, PH Centre, Cape Town
Marked – a Photographic Print Group Show, 
Eclectica Print Gallery, Cape Town
Displacement – a group show with other Tierney Fellowship, 99 Loop, Cape Town
Art Meets Camera: Closer than ever, MOMO, Cape Town
2016    
Emerging Artists, Art in the Yard, Cape Town; Bad Habitus, JNR Muller’s Gallery, Cape Town
2015     
Proposal, 6 Spin Street Gallery presented by JNR, Cape Town
Return to Sender, Centre for African Studies Gallery Cape Town
Greatest Hits, AVA, Cape Town
2014    
The Domestic Odyssey, AVA, Cape Town
2013    
Sasol New Signatures Art Competition Top 100, Pretoria Arts Museum, Pretoria
 

Awards & residencies

2015    
Awarded the Tierney Fellowship Award
2014     
Awarded the Cecil Skotnes Scholarship award from the Michaelis School of Fine Art
Awarded Scholarship from the Centre for Curating the Archive for materials
2013     
Dean's Merit list at the University of Cape Town
 

Collections

UCT collection

Teaching

2016- Present day   
Technical photography officer at the University of Cape Town

Education

2014    
BA Fine Art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art