Curriculum Vitae
Zen Marie
26-02-80 Durban, South Africa
Residential Address: Postal Address:
23 Symons Rd P.O.Box 45213
Brixton Melville
2092 2019
JHB JHB
South Africa South Africa
+27 82 763 2009
Email: zen.marie@wits.ac.za
Zen Marie is an artist who works in a variety of media. Core to his practice is a concern with how meaning is formed through multiple temporalities, spaces and processes. While working from a position that begins with photography and filmmaking he works in performance, sculpture, graphic processes and writing.
Marie has engaged with many thematic areas of focus, including international sport, identity, nationalism, and public infrastructure, the binding link between these diverse areas has always been the relationship between power and the subversion of power.
BOARDS AND COMMITTEES:
2016 – 2017 ASAWU Academic Staff Association of WITS University (ASAWU) Executive committee member and communications officer (asawu.org.za)
2011 – 2016 Convener of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC.org.za)
2010 – 2016 National Executive Committee of Visual Art Network of South Africa (VANSA.co.za)
2015 – present Founding editor of […] – an online journal in alternate epistemologies. www.ellipses.org.za
LECTURER
2010 – Present Lecturer in Fine Arts at WITS School of Fine Arts
2007 – 2009 Lecturer in Critical Studies at Vega: The school of Brand communications
EDUCATION
2017- present Candidate for a Dr. of philosophy in Fine Art, WITS University, JHB, SA
2004 – 2006 MA. Cultural Analysis, with distinction, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (the Netherlands)
2001 – 2003 De Ateliers: MA equivalent (Amsterdam NL.)
1998 – 2001 B.A. Fine Art, with distinction, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
1996 – 1997 Matriculated National School of the Arts, distinctions in painting and photography (JHB, S.A.)
1995 – 1995 Market Theatre Photography Workshop, analogue still
photography and black and white printing (JHB, S.A.)
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2018 Decolonial Aesthesis Lab, Rhodes University, (Makana, S.A.)
2017 Pro Helvetia Research Residency (Geneva, Lausanne, Basel)
2016 Cite de Artes, residency in collaboration with ESAD, St Denis, and La Port, Reunion Island
2016 WOAP .PERF Residency in Geneva Switzerland
2013 Urban Scenography, St Denis, Reunion
2012 Urban Scenography, Dakar, Senegal
2012 RAW Material CO, Dakar Senegal
2012 Urban Scenography, Dakar Senegal
2011 1Shanthi Rd, Bangalore India
2010 Time frame (NIMK), Durban South Africa
2009 Urban Scenography, JHB, South Africa
AWARDS AND BURSARIES
2017 Pro Helvetia Research grant for residency in Genève, Lausanne and
Basel
2016 Pro Helvetia Research grant for residency in Genève
2015 Ad hoc research grant (WITS)
2014 SPARC grant for publishing a practice based Journal.
2012 mail and guardian list of 200 young South Africans
2012 Ad Hoc research grant (WITS)
2011 Ad hoc research grant (WITS)
2011 SPARC grant for residency project, dislocating the studio
2010 Spier contemporary
2005 National Arts Council S.A. (Funding for graduate studies M.A.)
2005 Ernest Oppenheimer Trust (Award to S.A. artists studying abroad)
2004 Ernest Oppenheimer Trust (Award to S.A. artists studying abroad)
2004 Merit Prize (Brett Kebble Art Awards)
2004 National Arts Council S.A. (Funding for graduate studies M.A)
2001- 03 Ateliers stipend (funding for residency)
2001 Deans Merit List (UCT)
2001 Michaelis Prize for top student in the graduating class (UCT)
2000 Deans Merit List (UCT)
EXHIBITIONS
Work as participating artist
2017 Cahiers d’ Artistes, Kaserne Platz, Basel, Switzerland
2017 BIG Geneva Biennale, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 Circuit, PUNGWE/ Sugar Free, Lausanne, Switzerland
2016 Cite de Artes, residency in collaboration with ESAD, St Denis, and La Port, Reunion Island
2016 WOAP .PERF Residency in Geneva Switzerland
2016 Things fall apart, Trapholt Museum, Denmark
2015 La Nuit de Patrimonie, St Denis, Reunion Island
2014 Public Acts, Jhb Public Art Project
2013 TAXI poetry, public art project JHB
2013 23 Kilograms, Gallery West, Den Hague NL
2013 Urban scenography, St Denis Reunion.
2012 Caught By traffic II, RAW Material Co, Dakar Senegal
2012 Urban Scenography, Dakar Sengal
2011 Ten Years on, Michaelis Galleries, CPT S.A.
2011 Caught By Traffic , 1Shanthi RD Bangalore India
2010 Space: Currencies in African Art (Museum Africa JHB SA)
2010 Spier Contemporary (Cape Town City Hall)
2010 SAMSARA, Durban Art Gallery, Durban S.A.
2010 The Underground, the Surface and the Edges, video screening the
Faculty of Art Design and Architecture (FADA), University of Johannesburg.
2010 The Underground, the Surface and the Edges, video screening
Rautenstrauch- Joest Museum, Cologne, Germany
2010 last chance : contemporary artists from South Africa – Bergen centre for contemporary arts – Bergen Norway
2010- ‘us’ – curated by Bettina Malcolmess and simon njami – South African
national gallery Cape Town
2009 US (JHB Art Gallery)
2009 Urban Scenographies (public art project in JHB CBD)
2008 Love and Hate in Lesotho (solo, JHB Art gallery)
2008 Joburg Art Fair (Johannesburg South Africa)
2008 Migratory Aesthetics (Belfast, Ireland)
2007 Migratory Aesthetics (Enkhuizen, N.L)
2007 Migratory Aesthetics (Murcia Spain)
2006 Uninhabited territories (Next Wave festival, Melbourne Australia)
2006 Nie Meer (De Warande, Turnhout Belgium)
2006 KunstRai (Art Fair Amsterdam, with W. Baars gallery)
2006 Making Love to my Ego (Castlefield Gallery, Manchester England)
2005 A Place Called Home (Johannesburg Art Gallery, JHB)
2005 Cinema Suitcase Unpacked (Uni. of N.Y, Staten Island Gallery N.Y.)
2004 A Place Called Home (N.S.A., Durban South Africa)
2004 “ “ (S.A. National Gallery Cape Town
2004 L.A. Freewaves (Museum of Contemporary art, L.A.)
2004 Brett Kebble Art awards (Good Hope Center Cape Town)
2003 De Ateliers (Ateliers Project space, Amsterdam NL.)
2002 Le Filial, group show (Converted Bank space, Düsseldorf, Germany)
2001 Graduate Show University of (Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town, South
Africa)
2000 Soft Serve multimedia event (National Gallery, Cape Town, South
Africa)
2000 Returning the Gaze (Granary, Cape Town, South Africa)
EXHIBITIONS AS CURATOR
2015 NEWWORK 15 – 4TH YEAR WITS graduate show
2014 NEWWORK 14 – 4TH YEAR WITS graduate show
2013 Life of forms, Part of JWTC, Goethe Project Space, Maboneng JHB
2013 NEWWORK 13 – 4TH YEAR WITS graduate show
2012 Delta Remix, part of JWTC, Substation WITS university
2012 NEWWORK 12 – 4TH YEAR WITS graduate show
2011 Dislocating the Studio – one year residency program
2011 NEWWORK 11 – 4TH YEAR wits graduate show
2010 NEWWORK 10 – 4TH YEAR wits graduate show
CATALOGUES AND PUBLICATIONS
Publications of video or photographic work
2010 Space: Currencies in Contemporary Art – catalogue of artwork
2010 Spier Contemporary, catalogue of artwork
2008 Joburg Art Fair Catalogue Art Logic (SA)
2006 Making Love to My Ego Castlefield Gallery (UK)
2004 Brett Kebble Catalogue Brett Kebble (SA)
2004 A Place Called Home Zayd Minty (ed) (SA)
2004 10/100 Bell Roberts Publishing (SA)
2000 Returning the Gaze Catherine Smith (ed) (SA)
2000 Michaelis Graduate catalogue U.C.T press (SA)
PUBLISHED WRITING
2016 Where Are My Fucking Flowers published in the JWTC Salon
2015 NEWWORK 14 – 4TH YEAR wits graduate show- editor
2015 Interview on exhibition openings – to be published
2014 NEWWORK 14 – 4TH YEAR wits graduate show- editor
2013 Hotel Yeoville, co-author of text with Terry Kurgan, Fourth Wall Books
2013 NEWWORK 13 – 4TH YEAR wits graduate show- editor
2012 Chapter in Book: 2010 Reasons to live in a Small town, VANSA, JHB
2012 Catalogue Essay for Akona Kenqu, Marketphoto workshop
2012 NEWWORK 12 – 4TH YEAR wits graduate show- editor
2011 Review, Art SA v9.3 The Invisible Man: Francois Smit and the Sunday I illustration
2011 Article in Art SA, V9.4, Caught by Traffic
2011 Chapter in Book: Fire Walker, Barstow and Viljoen, Fourthwall Books,
JHB 2011
2011 Space ritual and absence – liminalty in South African visual art, conference paper, published in Art South Africa
2011 Fire Walker, author of chapter, Fourth Wall Books
2011 NEWWORK 11 – 4TH YEAR WITS graduate show – editor
2010 NEWWORK 10 – 4TH YEAR WITS graduate show catalogue – editor
2010 Feel it, It Has Gone: The Politics of Representation in a Post Democratic
South Africa, Art SA, Vol 9 Issue 01, spring
DOCUMENTARY AND DESIGN WORK
2015 Documentation and editing of the Antipode 5th Institute for the
Geographies of justice
2008 Rich Land of the Poor (book) Editing, design and layout
2007 DITSELA (documentary) Project coordinator, Editing,
Camera and Logistics
2007 Smile Orange, (documentary) Production, Camera, Editing
2006 Nothing is Missing (video installation by Mieke Bal) Editor, and DTP for
catalogue
2006 Uncertain Territories, Rodopi 2006 Cover Design
2006 Colony, (documentary) Camera and Operations
2005 1001 Days, (documentary) Camera and Editing
EXHIBITION LOGISTICS WORK
2004 Daimler Chrysler collection (JHB SA) Installation Team
2004 Group Portrait (African Window Museum) Exhibitions Manager
2004 Constitution Hill Museum Exhibitions Manager
2002 S.A. Families (Tropen Museum NL) Assistant Exhibitions Manager
2000 One city festival (The Granary Cape Town) Exhibition Management
Team
2000 Steve McQueen (Michaelis Gallery Cpt) Exhibition Management Team
2000 Juncture (Studio Voltaire London) Exhibition Management Team
TALKS
207 Keynote address, Artsearch Symposium, WITS University
2013 – GIPCA Great Texts: What Do They of Cricket Know, Who Only Cricket
Know?”, UCT, GIPCA CPT
2013 – Taxi poetry, WISER, WITS
2011 – tedx – ted talk: Caught by Traffic, Maboneng JHB
CONFERENCES
2017 ArtSearch Symposium, WSOA, WITS, JHB
2015 Indian Ocean Energies, WISER, WITS, JHB
2015 Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, WISER, WITS, JHB
2015 Planned Infrastructure, WISER, WITS, JHB
2012 Condition Report, Dakar Senegal
2011 Space Ritual and Absence – Liminalty in South African Visual Art,
Conference Paper, VIAD UJ, JHB
2011 The Names We Give, Michaelis School of Art CPT
2010 Architecture ZA: AZA 2010 JHB
2010 Bonani Africa, Iziko Museums, CPT
2010 From Pierneef to Gugulective: South African National Gallery CPT