Lizza Littlewort
Lizza Littlewort Lizza Littlewort

Lizza Littlewort

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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)

2019: JCO's Art Fair, San Francisco (April 2019).
2019: San Francisco Art Haus, Los Gatos, Silicon Valley, California.
2019: The Quiet Miracle, Michael Krief Gallery, Solana Beach, California
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)

2022: The Afterlife, NACH-TISCH, Swellendam
2018: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, CTICC, with 99 Loop Street Gallery, Cape Town
2017: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, CTICC, with 99 Loop Street Gallery, Cape Town
2016: Cape Town Art Fair, CTICC, with 99 Loop Street Gallery, Cape Town
2010: Sex Cake Death, Wessel Snyman Gallery, Cape Town.
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.

Publications

2019: Lize van Robbroeck, "Self as Ghost: Haunted Whiteness in Lizza Littlewort's Painting," ASAI

Other

2010: Co-curator, Swallow my pride, Blank Projects, Cape Town.
Early 1990s: Member, illustrator and storyboard artist, Story Circle Collective.


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