COLIJN STRYDOM
(b. 1979 Pretoria, South Africa)

Born in Pretoria, Colijn Strydom now lives and works in Cape Town. In 2008 he obtained an MA (Visual Arts) from Stellenbosch University. His practice is focused on drawing but extends to painting, photography and performance.

Strydom’s subject matter is diverse and draws from literature, history, folk tales and contemporary culture. His art often engages with gender and whiteness, using humour and other self-reflexive strategies. The realm where spirituality and politics intersect interests him, as well as drawing and painting as subjects in themselves.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025  Run, Everard Read, Cape Town, SA
2024  Ogygia, RMB Latitudes Art Fair, with Untitled Art, Johannesburg, SA
2023  Oedipus, Sisonke Gallery, Cape Town, SA
2022  Bacchae of Buitenkant, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Untitled Art, Cape Town, SA
         Inside Out, Cubicle Series, Everard Read, Cape Town, SA
2019  Crespuscular, 99 Loop, Cape Town, SA
2018  The Augurs Chord, 99 Loop, Cape Town, SA
2015  7, 8, 9, 10, Commune 1, Cape Town, SA
2011  The last battle is the loneliest, Brundyn +, Cape Town, SA
2010  Poppies in October, Brundyn +, Cape Town, SA
2009  Sad people from the future, Dawid Ras Gallery, Johannesburg, SA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024  If you look hard enough you can see our future, African Diaspora Art Museum, Atlanta, USA
          From the river to the sea, Desmond and Leah Tutu Foundation, Cape Town, SA
          Little Life, Everard Read, Cape Town, SA
2023  1-54 Art Fair, with Spier Arts Trust, London, UK
          If you look hard enough you can see our future, African American Museum, Dallas, USA
          Chromatic Horizons, Oude Leeskamer, Stellenbosch, SA
          The Other’s Warmth, Everard Read, Cape Town, SA
2022  Seduction, Everard Read, Cape Town, SA
          Fever, Art Gazette x Norval Foundation, Boschendal, Stellenbosch, SA
          Charting the uncharted, Gallery University Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, SA
          Breaking the Mould, Berman Contemporary, Johannesburg, SA
2021  Thinly veiled self portraits, Dawid Ras Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
          Untitled 8.99, 99 Loop, Cape Town, SA
2020  Shaping Things, SMAC, Stellenbosch, SA
          Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with 99 Loop, Cape Town, SA
          Kantel, a 2-person show with Isabel Mertz, Woordfees Arts Festival, Stellenbosch, SA
          Nostalgia, DAOR Gallery, Cape Town, SA
2019  Back to the Future, Dawid Ras Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
          Dwell in possibility, Centenary Gallery, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, SA
          Affordable Art Fair, with Dyman Gallery, Brussels, BE
          Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with 99 Loop, Cape Town, SA
2018  Proof, SMAC, Stellenbosch, SA
          Nano 1.2, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, SA
          Contemporary Abstract at Gallery 2, Johannesburg, SA
          The Paddock III at Blue Door Print Studio Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
2017  Fluid at Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, SA
          Turbine Art Fair with Dawid Ras, Johannesburg, SA
2015  Drawing, Gallery University Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, SA
2013  7 Deadly Virtues, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, SA
          YPO, Silo Gallery, Cape Town, SA
2012  Taal van Teken, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, SA
          If you let yourself love a wild thing, Salon 91, Cape Town, SA
2011  Open Books, Brundyn +, Cape Town, SA
2010  And what now?, two-person show with Louis Olivier, Grande Provence, Franschhoek, SA
          The mechanics and mysteries of perception, Brundyn +, Cape Town, SA
          Coppertone 77, Salon 91, Cape Town, SA
2009  Walking the Line, ArtSpace, Johannesburg, SA
2008  Absa L’Atelier Awards exhibition, Johannesburg, SA
2007  Flesh!, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, SA
          Thought Traffic, Premises Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
          Die Mees Opwindenste Tekentenoonstelling, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, SA
2005  Through the Looking Glass, drawing performance, Dirt Art Space, Cape Town, SA
2003  Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, SA
          PPC Sculpture Awards, Arts Association, Pretoria, SA
2002  Absa L’Atelier Award exhibition, Johannesburg,SA