Biography
Susan Woolf is presently researching two diverse art ventures. She has had collections in South Africa, England and the United States and exhibited in Atlanta, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Munich, New York and Washington. A short timeline of her activities and exhibitions is shown below:
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| 29 January 2010 |
South African Post Office launch at the Standard Bank Art Gallery of “Taxi hand signs” 2010 South African National Commemorative Stamp. Simultaneous launch of Taxi hand sign booklet and Taxi hand sign-based taxi route map. |
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| 8 November 2009 |
Participated in exhibition at Kievetskroon. Artspace, Parktown. |
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| 30 September 2009 |
Museum Africa: launch of Taxi hand sign Book for the Blind. A Tactile shape language designed for blind people to read the taxi hand signs. |
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| November 2008 |
Jacob’s Ladder exhibition at The Art Space, Johannesburg. |
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| August 2008 |
Participated in exhibition at Thompson Galley. |
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| July 2008 |
Participant in an art exhibition Mandela @ 90 at the South African Constitutional Court in Johannesburg for Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday. |
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| July 2007 |
The first edition of Taxi Hand Signs is published! |
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| February 2006 |
Exhibited Woman of Worth mural at the Mason Murer gallery, Atlanta G.A. |
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| Feburary 2006 |
Woman of Worth Mural on exhibition at the Mason Murer gallery in Atlanta G.A. |
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| November 2005 |
Exhibited charcoal drawings War and Sport, Atlanta.G.A. |
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| November 2005 |
Charcoal drawings War and Sport exhibited in the ………gallery in Atlanta.G.A. |
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| November 2004 |
Exhibited Table of Contents at Oppitafel 111 at The Art Space, Johannesburg |
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| November 2004 |
Exhibited sculpture with shadow entitled “Table of contents” in an exhibition “Oppitafel” 111 at The Art Space in Johannesburg. |
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| November 2003 |
Exhibited with Fellows of the Ampersand Foundation Award, at Warren Siebrit’s Modern and Contemporary Gallery, Johannesburg |
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| November 2003 |
Exhibited “Mapping Generations” with fellows of the Ampersand Foundation Award, at the Warren Siebrit’ Modern and Contemporary Gallery in Johannesburg. |
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| August 2002 |
Awarded Best Presentation for a Research Project by the TWR, Johannesburg. |
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| May 2002 |
Completed the degree of Master of Technology in Fine Arts, cum laude, at the Technicon Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. |
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| February 2001 |
Exhibited in Apartheid and Today, Kennesaw State University, during its Year of South Africa, Atlanta |
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| February 2000 |
Exhibited Is this your Face? No! It is the Face of your Mother and Father with recipients of the Ampersand Foundation Award (residency in New York) at the Civic Art Gallery, Johannesburg |
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| Feburary 2000 |
Completed a sculpture commission for law firm Edward Nathan and Friedland |
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| 15 October 1999 - 15 November 1999 |
Created, with two architects Cawood and Levin, the Mobile City sculpture for ABSA Towers North building, Johannesburg |
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| August 1998 |
Fellowship through the Ampersand Foundation of SA, in New York |
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| 14 July 1998 – 4 August 1998 |
Exhibited in Buttons, Civic Art Gallery, Johannesburg |
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| 13 November 1997 - 13 February 1998 |
Solo exhibition of the Healing installation and Art Books in Museum Africa, Johannesburg |
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| 13 October 1997 - 13 November 1997 |
Solo exhibition in the Carlton Centre in collaboration with The New Housing Company, Johannesburg |
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| October 1997 |
Exhibited resin art works Towards Mandela in the Bannister Art Gallery of Rhode Island College, New York |
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| 27 September 1997 - November 1997 |
Exhibited in Fifty Stories, at the top of the Carlton, Biennale fringe exhibition, Johannesburg. |
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| 14 August 1997 - 15 October 1997 |
Exhibited Realm Between Realms, Histories Between Histories, at B’nai B’rith Klutznic National Jewish Museum, in Washington DC. |
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| 14 August 1997 - 15 October 1997 |
Exhibited in Lifetimes: South African Art in Munich, Germany |
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| 7 November 1996–January 1997 |
Exhibition Condition/Response at Simmons Visual Arts Center of Bernau University, Atlanta |
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| 13 November 1996 - 13 January 1997 |
Solo exhibition, Towards Mandela, King Plow Art Center, Atlanta |
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| 12 April 1996-7 June 1996 |
Project Director of South African Art to Atlanta: Common & Uncommon Ground in the City Gallery East (Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs) during the Cultural Olympiad, 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, Atlanta. |
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| July 1994 |
Exhibition, Metropolitan Life Gallery, Cape Town. |
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| March 1994 |
Solo exhibition, Sanlam Bellville Art Gallery, Cape Town. |
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| February 1994 |
Exhibition at theatre performance Mayibuye i Africa, Atlanta USA |
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| October 1992 |
Solo exhibition Hostel Crisis at Carter Presidential Center, Atlanta |
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| September 1992 |
Exhibited at Newtown Gallery, Springs Arts Festival, Johannesburg |
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| July 1992 |
Solo exhibition, Crisis, Karen McKerron Gallery, Johannesburg |
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