Brett Murray

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    Again Again

    2015
    Goodman Gallery
    Cape Town
    South Africa

    2017
    Circa and Everard Read Galleries
    Johannesburg
    South Africa

    Ashraf Jamal’s Again Again Review
    Sean O Toole’s Again Again Review

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    Works: 2012-2013

    2013
    Goodman Gallery
    Cape Town

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    Hail To The Thief Exhibition

    2010
    Goodman Gallery
    Cape Town
    South Africa

    2012
    Goodman Gallery
    Jonannesburg
    South Africa

    Njabulo S Ndebele’s The Spear opinion piece. City Press

    The Spear Opinions
    The Spear Press

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    Crocodile Tears

    2009
    Crocodile Tears II
    Goodman Gallery
    Johannesburg
    South Africa

    2007
    Crocodile Tears
    The Goodman Gallery Cape
    Cape Town
    South Africa

    Sean O Toole’s Crocodile Tears Catalogue Essay
    Mary Corrigall’s Crocodile Tears Review
    Sanford S Shaman’s Crocodile Tears Review
    Chris Thurman’s Crocodile Tears Review
    View Catalogue

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    Sleep Sleep

    2006
    The Goodman Gallery
    Johannesburg
    South Africa
    and
    João Ferreira Gallery
    Cape Town
    South Africa

    Michael Smith’s Sleep Sleep Review
    Loyd Pollak’s Sleep Sleep Review

    
    
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    Golden Truths

    2013
    The Armory Show, Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
    2012
    Art Miami, Dean Projects, New York, USA
    Art Basel Miami, Goodman Gallery, USA
    2010
    ‘Hail to The Thief’, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, SA
    ‘In Other Words’, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
    Spier Contemporary, City Hall, Cape Town, SA
    2009
    ‘Words!’, AVA, Cape Town, SA
    ‘Crocodile Tears II’, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
    ‘Strengths and Convictions: The life and times of the South African Peace Prize Laureates’,
    South African National Gallery, Cape Town, SA
    2008
    Johannesburg Art Fair, The Goodman Gallery, SA
    2007
    ‘Turbulence’, HANGAR-7, Salzburg, Austria
    ‘Lift Off II’, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, SA
    ‘Crocodile Tears’, The Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, SA
    ‘Cape 07’ Biennale, Cape Town, SA
    2006
    Art Basel Miami, USA: The Goodman Gallery
    ‘Sleep Sleep’, The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, SA and João Ferreira Gallery,
    Cape Town, SA

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    New Beginnings

    2006
    The Goodman Gallery
    Johannesburg
    South Africa
    and
    João Ferreira Gallery
    Cape Town
    South Africa

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    Surfboards

    2005, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017
    Wavescape Fund Raising Auctions
    National Sea Rescue Institute

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    White Like Me

    2002

    Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year Award

    National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa
    SA King George VI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
    Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg , South Africa
    Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
    Johannes Stegman Art Gallery, Bloemfontein, South Africa
    South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
    Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Ivor Powell’s White Like Me Catalogue Essay

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    12th Official Language

    2003
    Literally and Figuratively: Text and Image in South African Contemporary Art
    Michael Stevenson Contemporary
    Cape Town
    South Africa

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    Hero

    2001
    The Bell-Roberts Contemporary
    Cape Town
    South Africa

    2003
    The Axis Gallery
    New York
    USA

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    I Love Africa

    2000
    Bell-Roberts Contemporary
    Cape Town
    South Africa

    The Goodman Gallery
    Johannesburg
    South Africa

    2004
    Min(e)dfields
    Kunsthaus
    Basseland
    Switzerland

    Ivor Powell’s I love Africa Catalogue Essay

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    Individual Works

    Individual works from 1985 onwards

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    Guilt and Innocence

    1997
    30 Minutes
    Robben Island Museum
    Cape Town
    South Africa
    1999
    Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa
    Museum for African Art
    New York
    USA

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    Own

    1997
    Hänel Gallery
    Cape Town
    South Africa
    and
    The Goodman Gallery
    Johannesburg
    South Africa

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    Continuity and Change

    1997
    Smokkel
    2nd Johannesburg Art Biennale Fringe
    Johannesburg
    South Africa

    Peet Pienaar, Werner Vermeulen, Lisa Brice, Barend de Wet,
    Ian Waldeck, Kevin Brand and Brett Murray

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    White Boy Sings The Blues

    1996
    Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery
    Johannesburg
    South Africa

    Kendell Geers White Boy Sings The Blues Review

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    Scurvy

    1995
    Scurvy
    Curated by Brett Murray and Kevin Brand
    The Castle of Good Hope
    Cape Town
    South Africa

    Barend de Wet, Wayne Barker, Kevin Brand, Lisa Brice,
    Brett Murray, Kate Gottgens and Andrew Putter

    Scurvy Review: Neville Dubow

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    Springtime In Chile

    The Laager was one of the fringe exhibitions at the
    Johannesburg Art Bienalle in 1995. This was curated by Wayne Barker
    and consisted of 21 shipping containers which were arranged
    in the form of a traditional laager.

    An extended version of this travelled to Chile the same year
    and was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago.
    This version was entitled “Springtime in Chile”.

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    Heritage

    1992
    Other Visibilities
    Newtown Gallery
    Johannesburg
    South Africa

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    Fat Sculptures

    1991
    Passages and Transitions
    Newtown Gallery
    Johannesburg
    South Africa
    and
    B and B (with Barend De Wet)
    Association of Arts
    Cape Town
    South Africa

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    Masters Work

    1985 to 1989
    Masters Degree of Fine Arts
    University of Cape Town
    South Africa

    A Group of Satirical Sculptures
    Examining Social and Political Paradoxes
    In the South African Context

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    1984: University of Cape Town : Undergraduate Work

    1985
    Aches and Pains
    Market Theatre
    Johannesburg

    With Barend De wet and Joachim Shonfeldt

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