Bonile Bam
gallery
biography

15.4.1957

born in Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa

Tertiary Art Schools: Bill Ainslie, Johannesburg Art Foundation, UNISA, sculpture, English, art history, philosophy, drawing

2007

Western Province arts and Culture award for contribution to the visual arts

since 2007 working in collaboration with Claire Loveday who is a composer from Wits on paintings and music, ‘a response to a response”;

1978/89

traveling, painting and working in the UK and East Coast USA; six months working at The Care Village, Devon with mentally handicapped women in

solo exhibitions

2010-2011

Seippel Gallery Johannesburg, water paintings

2008

Solo exhibition at the AVA Gallery, Cape Town (1990, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008)

2007

Orange street studios

2006

KZNSA, Durban

2003

Bellville Art, Cape Town

2002

Bag factory gallery, JHB

2000

Tatham gallery, Pietermaritzburg

group exhibitions

2008

Abstract Art group show, Seippel gallery JHB

2007

Thupelo workshop exhibition shows (1990, 1995, 1996, 2005, 2007)

2003

Standard Bank Gallery Johannesburg 

Johannesberg, Cape Town, Germany, New York, France, Australia, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Uganda, Wales, Stellenbosch, UK, Bulgaria, California, Rome, Sun city, Finland, Robben Island

projects

2007

Appointed to attend a donors meeting in Amsterdam, Arts Collaboratory

Chaired the Triangle Africa Arts Trust conference in Cape Town

Ford Foundation funding.

1998

Coordinator of the Transfigurative exhibition, AVA

Wolani papier-mâché project for HIV positive women

art therapy at De Lorentz Clinic, Cape Town

art studios at Valkenberg hospital OT department

Work in Switzerland for Pro Helvetia

Coordinator of the Thupelo workshops and Greatmore street studios

1987

Crossroads

1986

Administrator for the Thupelo International Art Workshop Project

Teaching:

Occupational Therapy Department, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.

Teaching co op and workshops and South African National gallery Annex.

UCT Summer School

art therapy at De Lorentz Clinic, Cape Town

Community Arts Project (CAP)

(FUBA) The Federated Union for Black artists; School for Autism, JHB; Indian primary school, Newtown, JHB; Baragwanath hospital, Soweto, (occupational therapy department)

 

collections

 

Work in various private, corporate and public collections, including SANG, Vodacom, SABC. Investec. Nandos UK. UCT