Ann Gollifer

b. 1960, Guyana, Lives in Gaborone, Botswana.

Ann Gollifer is a contemporary artist from Botswana, a painter, printmaker, photographer and writer. Gollifer draws on her South American, British and Botswana heritage, and their shared histories of conquest and colonialism. The complex entanglements of history, place, identity and belonging are central to Gollifer’s practice.

Printmaking
Painting
World in Document_Image & Sound
Other Works
Press
CV
Texts

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Views in the Interior of Guiana: Ann Gollifer’s Dialogue Across Time

Gollifer's exhibition tackles fading moral values

Sanitas exhibition showcases breathtaking art pieces

Education

1983: Master of Arts, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh.

Exhibitions (solo)

2025: Views of the Interior of Guyana, Royal Geographical Society, London
2024: Hold Me Said the Earth, The Origins Centre, WITS University, Johannesburg
2023: A Sum of Days, Ed Cross Fine Art, London
2020: CARBO ANIMALIS, Guns and Rain Gallery, Johannesburg
2015: OMANG? – Who are you?, Sophie Lalonde Art, Gaborone
2012: Branded, The Frame Gallery, Gaborone
2011: Living on an Horizon: A tribute to Bessie Head, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
2010: What am I doing here? Ke Dirang Ha?, Bicha Gallery, London
2009: Goddesses and Super Heroes, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
2006: Linhas de Sangue, Territories of the Heart, Museu Nacional de Arte, Maputo

Exhibitions (group)

2025: Botswana Focus at Latitudes Art Fair, Johannesburg, with the Art Residency Centre, Gaborone
2025: Decade: 10 Years of Guns and Rain, Johannesburg
2025: Investec Art Fair Cape Town with Guns and Rain, Johannesburg
2024 Latitudes Art Fair with Re Curate, Botswana
2024 Investec Art Fair Cape Town with Guns and Rain, Johannesburg
2023: ARCO LISBOA Art Fair, Lisbon, Portugal, with Guns and Rain, Johannesburg
2023: Investec Art Fair Cape Town with Guns and Rain Johannesburg
2021: 1-54 London, with Guns and Rain, Johannesburg
2020: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Guns & Rain, Cape Town
2020: Difficult Women, Gaborone Museum, Gaborone
2019: Love Is …, The BKhz Gallery, Johannesburg
2018: Also Known As Africa (AKAA), Guns & Rain, Paris
2018: Cape Town Art Fair, Guns & Rain, Cape Town
2017: All Your Secrets, Guns & Rain, Johannesburg
2017: Omang, AVA Gallery, Cape Town
2017: Art Africa Fair, Cape Town
2016: Turbine Art Fair, LL Editions and Guns & Rain, Johannesburg
2015: Under an African Sun, with Leo Hassaris, London
2015: Turbine Art Fair, LL Editions and Guns & Rain, Johannesburg
2008: Word, The Monument, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown
2008: Dumbo, Open Studio, Triangle Workshop, New York
2005: Bienal 05 TDM, Museu Nacional de Arte, Maputo
2003: Abale, Lusaka, Zambia
2003: Womanifesto, Procreation-Postcreation, Bangkok, Thailand
2003: 9th Le Donne Ridono, Biennale a cura del Centro Documentazione Donna di Ferrara, Italy
2002: Monomotapa, The Bag Factory Artist Studios, Johannesburg
2001-2002: Hoche Koche (multimedia event, coproduced with Steve Dyer), HIFA, Harare; The Dance Festival, Avignon, France; The Grahamstown Festival; and Dance Umbrella, Wits Theatre, Johannesburg
2001: Thapong International Artists Workshop exhibition, Gaborone, Botswana
2001: Thupelo International Artists' Workshop exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa
2000: Three Women Perspectives, Alliance Française, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Windhoek and Gaborone
1997: Botswana Live, The Commonwealth Institute, London, and Stockholm
1995: Botswana Live, The Commonwealth Institute, London; Chicago; and Washington
1995: The Mbile International Artists Workshop exhibition, Lusaka, Zambia
1993: 5th Le Donne Ridono, Biennale a cura del Centro Documentazione Donna di Ferrara, Italy
1993: Thapong International Artists Workshop exhibitions, Gaborone, Botswana
1993: Botswana Live, The Commonwealth Institute, London
1991: 4th Le Donne Ridono, Biennale a cura del Centro Documentazione Donna di Ferrara, Italy
1991: Thapong International Artists Workshop exhibition, Gaborone, Botswana

Residencies & Workshops

2024: Sacatar Foundation, Bahia State, Brazil
2023: British Art Now(BAN) curatorial forum, London/Manchester UK
2022: NAMDEB, Artists retreat StArt, Namibia
2018: IASPIS Residency, Stockholm
2008: Triangle, New York
2002: The Bag Factory Artists Studios, Johannesburg
2001: Thapong, Botswana
2000: Thupelo, South Africa
1998: MBILE, Zambia
1993: Thapong, Botswana
1991: Thapong, Botswana

Public collections

Pas Collection, Belgium
Holbar Collection, Liechtenstein
Africa First Collection, Israel
The Sainsbury Africa Galleries, The British Museum, London
The Triangle International Art Workshops, New York
University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa
The Alliance Française, Johannesburg
The National Museum, Gaborone
The Thapong International Art Workshop, Gaborone
The Mbile Art Collection, Lusaka
Botswana Life Insurance Limited
Penrich Insurance Brokers, Gaborone
The Bank of Botswana Fine Art Collection, Gaborone
The Michaelis Art Library, Johannesburg

Commissions

2009: Carter's suit, a personalised suit for Carter Foster, Curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2009: Paul Harris commission, large-scale wall panel, Johannesburg.
2008: "The Maitisong Dancers", mild steel and aluminium wall sculpture, Maitisong Theatre Entrance, Gaborone
2006: The Donor windows, Entrance, Princess Marina Hospital, Gaborone

Publications by Ann Gollifer

2021: Gollifer, Ann. Views in the Interior of Guyana 2021. In Dialogue with Robert Schomburgk's 'Views in the Interior of Guiana 1841'. Guns & Rain, Johannesburg

2015: Gollifer, Ann. Men with Tales - a collection of stories from the Guides of the Okavango Delta. Eggsson Books, Gaborone

2015: Valenzuela, Claudia and Gollifer, Ann, A frog in her throat - an illustrated children’s storybook, published in French and English editions by Snow Moon Editions, France

2012: Gollifer, Ann. (Editor). CONCEPT a forum for creativity. Quarterly magazine, First published April 2012, Botswana

2011: Gollifer, Ann and Egner, Jenny (ed.), I don't know why I was created. DADA, Coex'Ae Qgam, Eggson Books, Gaborone

2010: Gollifer, Ann.“Urban Camouflage Street Safaris”. In Africa e Meditarraneo- n. 3-4/09. African Fashion

2009: Gollifer, Ann (ed.), Urban Camouflage, Street safaris, Africa e Mediterraneo, Vol. 3-4. Number 09

2005: Gollifer, Ann (ed.), Transitions catalogue for the exhibition presented by The Africa Centre from the collection of Robert Loder of the Triangle Arts Trust

2004: Gollifer, Ann (ed.), The Nata Baobab, Botsalano Press, Gaborone