Brendhan Dickerson

1995: Graduated with distinction, Master's in Fine Art (sculpture), University of Cape Town.
1991: Graduated with distinction, BA in Fine Art (sculpture), University of Cape Town.

2007: Living conditioned, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town.
2004: Suspended Disbelief, Association for the Visual Arts, Cape Town.
1997: A Carnival Show, AVA, Cape Town.

2022–2023: Regionale 23. We are so many here, Kunsthalle Basel
2022: Horizons, Gallery Katapult, Salon Mondial, Basel
2021: Mother Earth Calling, Salon Mondial, Basel; Ateliers Ouverts
2020: Abseits – Apart, Le Ventre, Hegenheim, France
2019: Port Ouverts, Fabrick-Culture, Hegenheim, France
2018: Is-Art Gallery, Swellendam, South Africa
2017: Land und Stadt, Ittigen, Switzerland
2016: Liste Total, Basel
2014–2015: Is-Art Gallery, Franschhoek; Everard Read Gallery
2011: Horse, multiple views of a singular beast, Everard Read Contemporary
2010: Recent and New Works, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town.
2005: South African Art 1840 – Now, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town.
2000: Cast, Albertyn Stables Art Gallery, Simon’s Town. A Celebration for Bringing New Hope, Bell-Roberts Fine Art Gallery, Cape Town.
1998: SA Sculpture Today, Oudtshoorn Festival.
1996: Four Young Artists, Newtown Gallery, Johannesburg.

2008: Myerson Fine Art, Menier Gallery, London. Paul Smith, Albermale Street, London.
2001: Fire-sculpture performance on the Rhine, Basel, during a three-month residency in the IAAB International Artist Exchange Programme.
1998: Lifetimes: An exhibition of South African Art, Out of Africa Festival, Munich.
1995: International Exhibition of Art Colleges, Hiroshima.

2021: Gaia's Fury, performance for Mother Earth Calling, Salon Mondial, Basel.
2020: Synapse, performative percussion sculpture for a Butoh dance/improvised concert, Humbug Club, Basel
2019: Transfigure, commissioned for Poetische Flucht in die Wirklichkeit, exhibition at the Rhine Falls near Schaffhausen, Switzerland
2017: Tanz der Feuerwesen (Dance of the Fire-Creatures), collaboration with Kunstwerkstatt/Sophie Blocher Haus, Association for Social Psychiatry, Liestal; trailer performance at Bazar Noël, Walzwerk Areal, Münchenstein.
2016: Trying to Fly, Visarte anniversary, M54, Basel.
2013: Vlam Fire-Collective - South African fire-sculptors' collective formed to perform at Burning Man, Nevada, USA.
2011: Complicit, commissioned for Threshold (an exhibition on climate change), Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town.
2008: Infecting the City, Art in Public Space, Cape Town.
2007: Succession Debate Art Seasons South Africa, Paarl. Later extended and performed in District Six, Cape Town as part of X-Cape; Cape 07 Biennial.
2005: Klein Karoo Kunstefees.From Father to Son, Grahamstown Festival and Aardklop Arts Festival, Potchefstroom.
2002: With improvised trumpet and percussion, the launch of the Spier Outdoor Sculpture Biennial.
2001: Diner’s Club Joubert Park Public Art Project, Johannesburg.

2006-2009: Sculpture Lecturer (part-time), Fine Art Department, University of Stellenbosch.
2003: Arts and Crafts Instructor at the Estuary Centre, Swords, Co Dublin, Ireland. Designed and implemented a ceramics programme for mentally handicapped adults.
2002: Guest lecturer, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
1999-2000: Lecturer, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
1999: Not For Sale, a collaborative musical event at the Independent Armchair Theatre, Cape Town, featuring improvisations on wrought iron percussion sculpture. Accompanied by double bass.
1998: Contributed to Public Eye’s Heritage Day Public Sculpture Intervention Project: Caged stone lions at Rhodes Memorial, with metal scroll: From Rape to Curio.
1995-1997: Lecturer, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT.
1996: Consultant and facilitator to the “Sculptures in Wood” project, Association for the Visual Arts, Cape Town.
1994: Mentor to craft development projects, Small Business Development Corporation, Cape Town.
1992-1993: Co-ordinator, product developer and trainer, Montebello Design Centre, Cape Town.
1992: Established and ran a blacksmith’s forge, Montebello Design Centre.
[accordion title='Commissions'] 2008 The Gordon Institute.
2007: Art Seasons South Africa.
2005: Grahamstown Festival.
2002: Spier.
2001: Joubert Park Public Art Project.

2008: The Gordon Institute.
2007: Art Seasons South Africa.
2005: Grahamstown Festival.
2002: Spier.
2001: Joubert Park Public Art Project.

1995: Merit Award, International Exhibition of Art Colleges, Hiroshima.

IDASA, South African National Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Durban Art Gallery, Oppenheimer Collection, Wooltru, SAB Miller, Webber-Wentzel Bowens, Sandton Hilton, Vodacom, Old Mutual, J.P. Morgan.

Brendhan Dickerson’s Applied Design