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Frances Goodman

Born 1975 in Johannesburg, South Africa

Lives and works in Johannesburg

Bio

2003

Graduated from HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Art), Antwerp, Belgium

2000

Graduated from Goldsmiths College (MA Fine Arts), University of London, UK

1997

Graduated from University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Awards / Grants

2014

Cecily Brown Fellowship for outstanding woman artist, USA

2004

Werkvbeurzen, Flemish Community, Belgium

2002

Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, Scholarship, South Africa

Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, Scholarship, South Africa

2000

Visiting Arts Award for JUNCTURE, Visiting Arts, UK

Martienssen Prize First Prize Winner, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

University of the Witwatersrand, Anya Millman Travel Scholarship, South Africa

University of the Witwatersrand Sculpture Merit Award, South Africa

Solo exhibitions

Upcoming

Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2014

The Sweetest Ride, TMproject, Geneva, Switzerland

2013

Sub Rosa, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Cars and Girls, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town, South Africa

2012

Touched, (Art)Amalgamated, Chelsea, New York, USA

2011

Goodman Garage, Westdene, Johannesburg, South Africa

Forever, NSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa

Till Death Us Do Part, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2010

Keeping Up Appearances, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium

2009

Morbid Appetites, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

2008

Careless Whispers, Gallery Specta, Copenhagen, Denmark

Young Guns, Project Space, Aeroplastics, Brussels Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium

2007

Wishful Thinking, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2005

Petite Mort, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2004

Wanting, KULAK, University of Kortrijk, Belgium

David, Gallery in the Round, SA National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown, South Africa

2003

Intimate/Inanimate Moments, Solo Project, The Process Room, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

2000

Two-person exhibition with Moshekwa Langa at the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Group exhibitions

Upcoming

Divine Comedy, MMK Museum für Mordern Kunst, Frankfurt

Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington

Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid

Palazzo Correo, Venezia

Hayward Gallery, London

National Galery, Harare

Nirox Sculpture Park, Gauteng, South Africa

2014

Infecting the City, Cape Town, South Africa

States of Mind, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium

2013

Goodman Gallery Booth, FIAC, Paris, France

Goodman Gallery Booth, Johannesburg Art Fair, South Africa

Goodman Gallery Booth, The Armory, New York, USA

2012

Positive Tension, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town, South Africa

Fox with Issues, Gallery Specta, Copenhagen, Denmark

(Art)Amalgamated Booth, Art MRKT Hamptons, New York, USA

Open Studios, ISCP, New York, USA

Group Exhibition, PG Contemporary, Houston, USA

Aeroplastics Booth, ArtBrussels, Brussels, Belgium

Fireflires, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium

ADVANCE/NOTICE… Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2011

Summer Show, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Goodman Gallery Booth, FIAC, Paris, France

Betoverd Bos (The Enchanted Forest), Aalter, Belgium

Not Human, Nor Stone, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

EAT ME, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Horizon, CC Brugge, Bruges, Belgium

El Mapa: Cartografias Criticas, Medellin, Colombia

Goodman Gallery Booth, Art Dubai, Dubai

Goodman Gallery Booth, The Armory, New York, USA

2010

The Map to Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia

Lust and Vice. The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman, Zentrum Paul Klee and Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

In Other Words, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

In Context, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Lingering Whispers, The Crypt, St Pancreas Church, London, UK

US, Iziko, National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Aeroplastics Booth, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

The Goodman Gallery Booth, Jo’Burg Art Fair, South Africa

The Goodman Gallery Booth, The Armory, New York, USA

2009

That’s All Folks, Bruges Stadhallen, Bruges, Belgium

The Goodman Gallery Booth, Art Basel, Miami, USA

To Die For, Tres Bien Shop, Malmo, Sweden

Spheres, Galleria Continua, La Moulin, France

US, Johannesburg Art Gallery & Goodman Gallery Project Space, Johannesburg, South Africa

Beauty and Pleasure, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway

The Goodman Gallery Booth, The Armory, New York, USA

The Goodman Gallery Booth, Jo’Burg Art Fair, South Africa

Aeroplastics Booth, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

Bernier Eliades Booth, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

The Goodman Gallery Booth, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2008

BB3 Being Here: Mapping the Contemporary, Bildmuseet Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Deadly Serious, Exprmntl Gallerie, Toulouse, France

Specta Booth, Kopenhagen

Goodman Gallery Booth, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Specta Booth, SWAB, Barcelona, Spain

BB3 Being Here: Mapping the Contemporary, Bucharest Biennial, Bucharest, Romania

ZA Young Art From Africa, Palazzo della Papesse, Siena, Italy

Aeroplastics Booth, Rottedam Art Fair, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Goodman Gallery Booth, Jo’Burg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa

Spier Contemporary, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2007

About Beauty, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Spier Contemporary, Africa Art Centre, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Goodman Gallery Booth, Art Basel, Miami, USA

Gallery Specta Booth, Copenhagen Art Fair, Denmark

Rare Essence, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium

Making Waves, SABC Collection Exhibition, Cape Town Castle, Cape Town, South Africa

Lift Off II, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Compulsions, Gallery Specta, Copenhagen, Denmark

2006

Women: Photography and New Media: Imaging the Self and Body through Portraiture, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Goodman Gallery Booth, Art Basel, Miami, USA

Farrago, Bernier Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece

Goodman Gallery Booth, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Nie meer, de Warande, Turnhout, Belgium

There and Back / Africa, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain

2005

Threat Zone, Triangle Project Space, San Antonio, Texas, USA

prologue reclaiming Europe from a new feminist perspective, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK

Art out of Place, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, UK

Double Check Re-Framing Space in Photography: The Other Space, Parallel Histories, Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria

2004

Double Check Re-Framing Space in Photography: The Other Space, Parallel Histories, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia

Goodman Gallery Booth, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland

Your Heart is No Match for my Love, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, USA

Mo(NU)ment(at)Bornem, Weert, Hingene and Bornem (Klein-Brabant), Belgium

Show Us What You’re Made Of, The Premises, Johannesburg, South Africa

After Hours, In/Out, Hisk, Antwerpen, Belgium

2003

Distance of Memory, Nairs House of Culture in Vulpera Tarasp, Nairs, Switzerland

Opzij van het Kijken, Watou Art and Literature Festival, Watou, Belgium

Something About Love, Casino, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Open Studios, Higher Institute of Skone Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium

2002

Viper, Basel New Media Festival, Basel, Swizerland

Portrait, Sound Space, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Sensing Sculpture, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK

Fluid, Bonnington Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK; Middlesborough Art Gallery, UK; Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff, Wales

Unprincipled Passions, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK

Fluid, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK

JUNCTURE, the Granary, Cape Town, South Africa

Body: Rest and Motion, Oudtshoorn Festival, South Africa

JUNCTURE, Studio Voltaire, London

Emotions and Relations, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Customised Jeans Exhibition, Cinch, London, UK

EAST International, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, UK

Goldsmiths MA Exhibition, Goldsmiths College, London

1999

Not Quite a Christmas Show, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Celsius: (new) art from the (new) South Africa, IFA Gallery, Bonn, Germany

Group Exhibition, the Lavender, London, UK

The Paper Show, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Martienssen Prize Exhibition, Gertrude Posel Gallery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Fine Art End of Year Exhibition, Gertrude Posel Gallery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Closer than Bronze, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Women’s Voice, touring various cities in Germany

Public collections

Chase Manhattan Collection, New York, USA

BHP Billiton SA Limited Collection

Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Rand Merchant Bank Headquarters, London, UK

South African Broadcasting Corporation Collection, South Africa

UNISA Collection, South Africa