Cameron Platter
b. 1978, Johannesburg, South Africa Cameron Platter’s work in drawing, painting, sculpture, tapestry, ceramics, video, and the internet appropriates and filters, in a highly personal and idiosyncratic way, the enormous amount of information available today. Blurring the distinction between high and low, his postmodern and multi-disciplinary approach to art making, typically draws from sources as disparate as art history, ecology, psychedelics, advertising, therapy, collage, and consumerism.
He has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town (2022); Galerie Hussenot, Paris (2021); 1301PE, Los Angeles (2018); and Blank Projects, Cape Town (2017). Recent group exhibitions include The Bangkok Biennale (Chaos Calm), Bangkok, Thailand (2022); MoMA, New York, Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, (2011); Public Intimacy, SF MoMA, San Franciso (2013); Imaginary Fact, The South African Pavillion at the
55th Venice Biennale (2013); and and Le Biennale de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal (2010).
His work is part of the permanent collections of institutions such as MoMA, New York, The Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Zietz MOCAA Collection, The Bass Museum of Art, The Margulies Collection, and the Iziko South African National Gallery. He was artist in residence for 2015 at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.He has been featured in publications such as Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Vice Magazine, NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, L’Officiel, Art Africa. He was included in Thames &
Hudson’s “100 Sculptors of Tomorrow” (2019).2018 - Defying the Narrative: Contemporary Art from West and Southern Africa, Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco
2018 - To Our Fellow Artists and Poets Who Are Confused Which Way to Go, Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca, Spain
2018 - Right on the Equator, Depart Foundation, Malibu, USA
2017 - Il Cacciatore Bianco, FM Centro Per L’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2017 - Dans Un Ciel Ensoleille, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, USA
2017 - Atsala Tsala, Patrica Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
2016 - Satterwhite, Platter, Richmond, and Da Corte, Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca
2015 - Artist in Residence at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA)
2015 - Baboink Arts & Crafts Bar, Absolut Art Bar, Joburg Art Fair
2015 - Imago Mundi, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy
2015 - Arte contemporânea na Coleção Sindika Dokolo - You Love Me, You Love Me Not, Municipal, Gallery
Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal
2014 - Public Intimacy. Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa, SFMOMA, San Francisco. Curated by Frank
Smiegel.
2014 - Brave New World... 20 Years of Democracy, Iziko South African National Gallery. Curated by Ernestine
White.
2014 - Burned By The Sun / Quemados Por El Sol, Mallorca Landings, Palma de Mallorca
2013 - Imaginary Fact: South African Art and the Archive, South African Pavillion, 55 th Venice Biennale.
2013 - Curated by Brenton Maart. Die Nächste Generation VI, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg
2012 - Beyond Apartheid: Sex, Race, and Politics in Contemporary Africa, Galeria Lunara, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Curated by Bernardo José de Souza.
2012 - A Perfect Day, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam. Curated by Dave Eggers.
2011 - Absent Heroes, Iziko South African National Gallery. Curated by Pam Warne.
2011 - Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, MoMA New York. Curated by Judith
Hecker.
2011 - Rencontres Internationales, Haus Der Kultur, Berlin. Curated by Nathalie Henon and JeanFrancois Rettig.
2011 - Coca- Colonized, Marte Museum, El Salvador. Curated by Claire Breukel.
2011 - Africa!, Galerie Hussenot, Paris. Curated by Andre Magnin.
2010 - Rencontres Internationales, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Curated by Nathalie Henon and Jean-Francois
Rettig.
2010 - Coca- Colonized, Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Claire Breukel.
2010 - Africa Assume Art Position, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan. Curated Yakouba Konate.
2010 - Contemporary Artists from South Africa, BEK, Norway. Curated by Maia Urstad.
2010 - Dak’Art 2010, Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal
2010 - Twenty, 20 Years of South African Sculpture, Nirox Foundation, Gauteng. Curated by Andrew Lamprecht.
2010 - 1910 - 2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, South African National Gallery. Curated by Riason Naidoo.
2010 - The Spirit is Not the Idea, Says the Penguin, CO-OP, Johannesburg. Curated by Katrin Lewinsky. Spier
Contemporary, Travelling, South Africa.
2009 - Clair/ Obscur Film Festival, Basel, Switzerland. Curated by Patrick Buhler.
2009 - Manifesto, CO-OP, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2009 - Word Up!, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. Curated by Ashleigh McLean and Kristy Cockerill.
2009 - Sing Into My Mouth, Whatiftheworld/ Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. Curated by Julia Clark.
2008 - On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2007 - Love, South Beach Emporium, Miami, USA. Curated by Luis Alonzo- Barkigia.
2006 - Tour, a slice of life, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Claire Breukel.
Cameron Platter C.V.
b. 1978
Lives and works in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Drawings, Tang Contemporary, Hong Kong
2023 - Hell Was Full So I Came Back, Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2022 - Ba Dum Tssshhh, Whatiftheworld/ Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2021 - I Wasn’t Made I Was Made, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
2021 - The Message is the Message, Warin Lab, Bangkok, Thailand
2020 - SOLID WASTE, Whatiftheworld/ Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2020 - 7- ELEVEN, Open 24hrs, Cape Town, South Africa
2019 - FR1000ID, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2018 - Teen Non_Fiction, 1301PE, Los Angeles, USA
2018 - You Look Like Your Face, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
2018 - SALAMI, GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017 - ZOL, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 - Hallelujah, Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, USA
2016 - U-SAVED-ME, Depart Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
2016 - Scream, Whatiftheworld/ Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2014 - Monster, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
2014 - I Saw This, Whatiftheworld/ Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 - YOU, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
2011 - Fucking Hell, Whatiftheworld/ Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
2010 - Hard Times, Great Expectations, Whatiftheworld/ Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
2010 - I Am Lonelyness, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria.
2009 - Black Up That White Ass II, YOUNGBLACKMAN, Cape Town, South Africa.
2008 - Studio, KNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa.
2006 - Party Time, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa.
2006 - Beware the Curves, Labia Cinema, Cape Town, South Africa.
2004 - Storm, NSA Gallery, Durban, KwaZuluNatal, South Africa.
2004 - The Love is Approaching, Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 - Chaos Calm, Bangkok Art Biennale 2022, Bangkok, Thailand
2022 - Layers, Rock Art Across Space & Time, Nirox Foundation, Johannesburg
2022 - Seeds of the Fig, Krone, Reservoir, Whatiftheworld, Tulbagh, South Africa
2022 - Memory, Playfulness, and Stream of Consciousness, Tang Contemporary, Hong Kong, China
2021 - Not Angels or Algorithms, Only Human Error, Whatiftheworld Gallery, Cape Town, South
2021 - AfricaRestudio, Cunningham Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa
2020 - Arte Contemporanea na Colecao Sindika Dokolo- You Love Me,
2020 - You Love Me Not, Municipal, Gallery Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal
2019 - A Higher State of Consciousness, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
2019 - Gold Standard: Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, USA
2018 - Open Agenda, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
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2006 - Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Holland.
2005 - KO Video/ 1 st Durban Video Festival, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa. Curated by Greg Streak.
2004 - Negotiate; Conciliation Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2004 - Contra Mundi, AVA gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. Curated by Andrew Lamprecht.
2004 - Exchange views on..., Espace CroixBaragon, Toulouse, France. Curated by Sophie Solnychkine.
2003 - Picnic, Bell- Roberts, Cape Town, South Africa. Curated by Andrew Lamprecht.
2003 - Art as Usual, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa. Curated by Christian Nerf.
2003 - Galerie Puta, 2a Dysart Road, Cape Town, South Africa. Curated by Galerie Puta.
2001 - YDETAG, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. Curated by Andrew Putter and James
Webb.
2001 - Stolen Painting, Art Night Out, Cape Town, South Africa.
2000 - 2001 Returning the Gaze, One City, Many Cultures, Cape Town, South Africa. Curated by Zayd Minty.
2001 - Emergency, BellRoberts Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. Curated by Julia Clark.
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) New York
Iziko South African National Gallery
FRAC Centre, Pays de la Loire, France
Margulies Collection, Miami, USA
Zietz Collection, SA
The New Church Collection, SA