Zander Blom

News

Zander Blom's first US solo show, Place and Space, took place at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, in 2011/12. Stevenson will show his work alongside that of Ernest Mancoba and Odili Donald Odita on Art Feature at Art Basel (14-17 June 2012). Blom's next solo exhibition will take place at Stevenson Cape Town in September 2012.

Exhibitions / Works

• New Paintings (Johannesburg, 27 October - 6 December 2011)
• New work on Geography of Somewhere (Johannesburg, 14 April - 13 May 2011)
• Paintings. Drawings. Photos. (Cape Town, 9 September - 16 October 2010)
• The Drain of Progress (2007)

Publications

• Geography of Somewhere (2011)
• Paintings. Drawings. Photos. (2010)
• The Travels of Bad (2009)
• The Drain of Progress (2007)

Biography

Blom was born in 1982 in Pretoria, and lives in Johannesburg. His first major body of work, The Drain of Progress, showed in Johannesburg (2007), Cape Town (2008) and London (2009). The Travels of Bad followed, showing in Johannesburg and Cape Town in 2009. Both were published as limited edition artist's books. Solo shows have taken place at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2011-12); Galerie van der Mieden in Antwerp and 5x6x9, Berlin (2010). Group shows include The Global Contemporary: Art worlds after 1989 at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany (2011); Ampersand at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (2010); Black, Blank Projects (2009); Why Not?, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin (2009); Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town (2008); and .ZA: Young art from South Africa, Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (2008). Blom was included in the Younger than Jesus artists' directory published by the New Museum, New York (2009).
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