Lizza Littlewort
b. 1963, Cape Town. Lives in Swellendam, Western Cape, South Africa.
Lizza Littlewort produces paintings that reflect critically on history, the environment, and on art historical conventions.
Arts Education
2013: Honours in English Literature, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
2000: Postgraduate Diploma, Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
1990: Bachelor of Architecture, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
Exhibitions (solo)
2018: It Seemed to Throw a Kind of Light, 99 Loop St, Cape Town.
2016: The Great Grief, 99Loop Gallery, Cape Town.
2016: The Broker's Coke Dream: A History of the Current Age, 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town.
2015: We Live In The Past, 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town.
2008: Where the Troubles Started, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town
2007: White Elephant, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town.
2006: The Paris Salon, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town.
2005: Raw Over-Cooked, Gerard Sekoto Gallery, Johannesburg.
2005: Drawing on a White Background, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town.
2005: How did Lizza meet Jake Chapman?, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2004: I want to be famous, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
Exhibitions (group)
2010: Own Goal, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2008: Fresh Meat, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town.
2008: FNB Joburg Art Fair, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg.
2003: Ydesire, Cape Town Castle, Cape Town.
2003: Eat Shit and Die, Cape Town Castle, Cape Town.
Other
2010: Co-curator, Swallow my pride, Blank Projects, Cape Town.
Early 1990s: Member, illustrator and storyboard artist, Story Circle Collective.
Links
Lize van Robbroeck, Self as Ghost: Haunted whiteness in Lizza Littlewort’s painting, (ASAI, 2019).
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Physical address:
Room 2.02
Old Medical School
University of Cape Town
32 – 37 Orange Street
Gardens
Cape Town, 8000
South Africa
Email: admin@asai.co.za
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