CURRICULUM VITAE
AWARDS & COMPETITIONS (SELECTED)
2023 - Cancer Feminine Art Competition. Platinum / 1 st Prize. Purple Octopus Online
Gallery, Australia.
2023 - Portrait Awards: 3 rd Place. Rust en Vrede Gallery, Cape Town.
2023 - Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize: Top 30 (Traditional Art Category). Armidale, Australia.
2021 - Portrait Awards: Top 40. Rust en Vrede Gallery, Cape Town.
2019 - Portrait Awards: Top 100. Ava Gallery, Cape Town.
2018 - Thami Mnyele Fine Art Awards: Top 100. Kempton Park, Johannesburg.
2017 - Portrait Awards: Top 40. Rust en Vrede Gallery, Cape Town.
2015 - Thami Mnyele Fine Art Awards: Top 100. Kempton Park, Johannesburg.
2014 - Art Lovers Gallery Competition: Overall winner. Pretoria.
2014 - ITWEB Brainstorming Competition: Top 12. Johannesburg.
2014 - Sasol New Signature’s Art Competition: Top 100. Pretoria Art Museum.
2008 - Sasol New Signature’s Art Competition: Top 100. Pretoria Art Museum.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023 - Kappie Stoksiel Skoudier. Online Exhibition.
2022 - Phantom Figment Fragment. Online Exhibition.
2022 - 3 Fates + 7 Sermons + The Abyss. Online Exhibition.
2022 - 22/2/22. Online Exhibition.
2021 - Tat Tvam Asi. Online Exhibition.
2021 - Koggel Skadu’s. Online Exhibition.
2021 - In Bardo. RK Contemporary. Riebeek Kasteel, Cape Town.
2020 - The Medial Women. Online Exhibition.
2019 - Tussen Stasies. Trent Gallery, Pretoria.
2018 - Extrinsic / Intrinsic. Jan Royce Gallery, Cape Town.
2018 - M(as)kers Solo Exhibition. Woordfees. Stellenbosch, Cape Town.
2016 - Gedaante Verwisseling. Rust en Vrede Gallery. Cape Town.
2015 - Slip-cast Series. Art Lovers Gallery, Pretoria
COLLECTIONS
2019 - “A Whiter Shade of Frail”. 2016. Oil on Canvas. Jan Royce Foundation, Valencia.
- “Ash & Salt”. 2017. Oil on Canvas. Jan Royce Foundation, Valencia.
2018 - “Rembrandt Messiah”. 2017. Oil on Board. Jan Royce Foundation, Valencia.
2017 - “Inside/sight/cite”. 2016. Bronze (¼). As part of the Cool Capital traveling exhibition.
South African Department of Arts and Culture Permanent Collection.
2015 - “Slipcast Portrait ii”. 2015. Pigment Ink and Oil on Canvas Paper. Angus Taylor &
Rina Stutzer Art Collection, South Africa.
2009 - “How meaning is constructed”. 2009. Charcoal on Fabriano. ATKV Art Collection,
South Africa.
ART FAIRS & SPECIAL PROJECTS (SELECTED)
2019 - Valencia Design Week. Jan Royce Gallery. Valencia, Spain
2019 - SculptX Annual Art Fair. The Melrose Gallery. Johannesburg.
2017 - Turbine Art Fair. Represented by Carol Lee Fine Arts Gallery. Johannesburg.
2016 - Turbine Art Fair. Represented by DF Contemporary. Johannesburg.
2016 - Cool Capital “saadjies”. Curated by Pieter Matthews and Carla Taljaard.
Travelling exhibition: Architecture Biennale - Venice, Italy; Van Wouw Huis - Pretoria;
Aardklop - Potchefstroom; Woordfees - Stellenbosch.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED):
2021 - Affordable Art Fair Online Exhibition. Curated by Elfried Dreyer. Edg2020 Online
Gallery.
2019 - Slightly Saintly. Curated By Leanne Olivier. Trent Gallery, Pretoria
2019 - A letter to my 22 year old self. Curated by Banele Khoza. BKhz Studio,
Johannesburg
2019 - Face to Face. Now Gallery at the Open Windows Art Institution. Curated by Nina
Torr. Pretoria.
2019 - WomXn. Curated by Adele Adendorf. Pretoria Arts Association.
2018 - True Self: Open Dialogues. Curated by Tlotlo Lobelo. KKNK. Oudtshoorn, Klein
Karoo.
2018 - Unsettled. Curated by Tlotlo Lobelo. Absa Gallery, Johannesburg.
2018 - Naked Truth. Curated by Elani Willemse and Shenaz Mahomed. Fried Gallery,
Pretoria.
2018 - Tacit. With Angus Taylor & Dionysus Sculpture Works artists. Curated by Elani
Willemse. Oliewenhuis Art Museum. Bloemfontein.
2017 - Rethinking Kakotopia. Curated by Derek Zietsman. University of Johannesburg.
2017 - Mythology / Morphology. DF Contemporary, Cape Town.
2017 - To see the forest for the trees. Curated by Alex Hamilton. Woordfees.
Stellenbosch, Cape Town.
2017 - Art Gratia Artis. Curated by Aidon Westcott. Grande Provence, Cape Town.
2016 - Sex + Death on the Moon. With Johann Nortje. Trent Gallery, Pretoria.
2016 - Artemisia. DF Contemporary, Cape Town.
2016 - Chapter III. DF Contemporary, Cape Town.
RESIDENCIES:
2019 - “Silence Awareness Existence”. Arteles Creative Centre, Finland.
EDUCATION:
2012 - Fine & Applied Arts B-Tech Cum Laude. Tshwane University of Technology.
2008 - Fine & Applied Arts National Diploma Cum Laude. Tshwane University of
Technology.
SELECTED PRESS:
2022 - The Black Madonna Speaks. Podcast interview with Stephanie Georgieff.
2022 - Artist interview. Die Waarheid Media with Gerald Eloff.
2021 - The Intangible Land. Interview with Nieves A. Calvo Lopez.
2021 - City Press. South Africa’s new wave of daring portraiture. Article by Grethe Kemp.
2020 - Klyntjie.com. Leanne Olivier se rituele portretkuns oor die heilige vrou. Interview
with Francois Lion-Cachet.
2020 - Pandemic stories, Leanne Olivier. Interview with Photographer Bernard Brand.
2019 - SA Artist Magazine Issue 48. Feature artist: Leanne Olivier.
2018 - Taalgenoot, Autumn Issue. Wegsteek en wys. Interview with Johan Myburg.
2017 - Art Times, September Issue. Magazine Cover: Leanne Olivier artwork feature:
“Theia”.
2016 - Weirdson Online Grunge Magazine, Issue 004. Leanne Olivier: Mythology &
Legend. Interview with Wade Weirdson.
2016 - Cool Capital Guerrilla Magazine. Saadjies Traveling exhibition, artwork feature:
“Insight/side/cite”.
2016 - Northern Newspaper. Young Artists shine at the Durbanville Gallery. Article by
Lizahn Wentzel.
