BIOGRAPHY
Lyndi Sales
Sales' new body of work exists at the interface of art and rationalism, reason and wonder. Working with hand-woven textiles, sculptural installation and collage, she uses the “basic building blocks of the universe” as a departure point for her artistic enquiry.
Whilst located in a scientific register – an interrogation of the properties of light or the cold crystalline structure of chemicals – this original departure point is refracted through the lens of art and infused with a deeply personal aesthetic sensibility. Conceived symbiotically, Sales' surprising melding of art and science take on new and curious configurations. For Sales, it is wonder that binds art and science in mutually beneficial exchange.
BIOGRAPHY:
Lyndi Sales is based in Cape Town. She has been creating a series of installations and artworks for the past sixteen years. Her constructions made of intricately cut perspex, paper, rubber, fabric and stone often shed light on the fragile nature of our existence and temporality.
She has held solo shows internationally at Galerie Maria Lund in Paris, Toomey Tourell in San Francisco and M Contemporary in Sydney – and locally in South Africa at the Goodman Gallery, the Everard Read and Whatiftheworld galleries. She has participated in numerous group shows in South Africa, the USA, Austria, the UK, Holland, Germany, Denmark and Australia. Her works can be found in major collections locally and internationally.
Sales has taught as a visiting lecturer at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town and at the University of Stellenbosch. Sales represented South Africa at the 2011 Venice Biennale. She was a merit award winner in the ABSA Atelier Awards, a recipient of the Vermont Studio Center grant and has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center as well as the Frans Masereel Center in Belgium.
Solo Exhibitions
2016
Castle in the sky..., Circa Everard Read, Johannesburg
2015
the person you see…, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris, France
untitled, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town, South Africa
2014
DSS2, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
Praeternatural light, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris, France
2013
Levitate, M Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
2012
Deep sky survey, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town, South Africa
Apperception, Toomey Tourell, San Francisco, USA
2011
Passive Surveillance, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris, France
2010
Blur Zone, Gallery Momo, Johannesburg, South Africa
Astronomical Seeing, Sarah Khan Contemporary, Lichtenstein
Lyndi Sales, Galerie Sylvia Bernhardt, Germany
2009
in transit, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, USA
in transit, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris, France
2008
TRANSIenT, Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2007
1 in 11 000 000 Chances & works at the Dieu Donne Papermill NY, Gallery Momo, Johannesburg, South Africa
2006
1 in 11 000 000 Chances, Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2003
Anomaly, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
2001
Ancestral Journeys, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Ancestral Journeys, Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1996
Circus, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
Awards and Achievements
2011
Selected to participate in the 54th Venice Biennale - South African Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2008
Selected to participate in the 2008 Holland Paper Biennale
2007
Merit award: 2007 ABSA L’Atelier
Recipient of the Vermont Studio Centre residency fellowship, USA
Awarded the PARTage residency in Mauritius
Selected to participate in the 2008 Spier Contemporary Competition
2006
Top ten finalist ABSA L’Atelier
2003
Top ten finalist ABSA L’Atelier
1996
Winner of the 1996 London Print Workshop
1995
Winner of the Amateurs graphics award, Bellville Art Association, Cape Town
1991
Merit winner: Sanlam
Collections
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, USA
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C, USA
New York Public Library, USA
University of Northern Illinois, Dekalb, USA
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Red Bull, Austria
French bank La Société Générale
ABSA, Ernst and Young, Eskom, Hollard, Santam, Sasol
South African Breweries, Telkom, Nando, UCT, University of South Africa
Standard Bank and South African National Gallery
Jack Ginsberg artist book collection, South Africa
Various private collections locally and abroad
FRAC de la Haute Normandie (Regional Contemporary Art Foundation for Upper Normandie)
Société Générale Art Foundation, France
Selected Group Shows
2011
54th Venice Biennale, South African Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Give Me Six, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris, France
2010
Accrochage, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris, France
CHIC Dessin, Paris, France
2009
At the end of the Rainbow, Bie & Vadstrup, Copenhagen, Denmark
Group Show, KKNK, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
Print, The South African Print Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
DESSIN - AFFIRMATIF! new works on paper, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris, France
Group Show, Gallery Momo, Johannesburg, South Africa
2008
2008 Holland Paper Biennale, Museum Rijswijk, Holland
Between Meaning and Matter, Bell-Roberts, Gallery Cape Town, South Africa
Print ‘08, Bell- Roberts Cape Town, South Africa
Intervention, UNISA Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
2007
Spier Contemporary, Spier Estate, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Turbulence, Hangar-7 Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
South Africa on Paper, GBK Gallery, Sydney, Australia
14th Tallinn Print Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
Rich and Strange, Newport, UK
Critics Choice, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
Greenhouse, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Somerset West, South Africa
ABSA L’Atelier, Johannesburg, South Africa
2006
20 Artists 06. Contemporary Printing, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Group Show of Prints, Art on Paper, Johannesburg, South Africa
ABSA L’Atelier, Johannesburg, South Africa
2005
Finding you, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
2004
Pulp, Bellville Art Association, Cape Town, South Africa
Miniatures, Art on Paper Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
ABSA L’Atelier, Johannesburg, South Africa
2003
YDESIRE, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa
ABSA L’Atelier, Johannesburg, South Africa
2002
Book Arts, Pensacola Museum of Art, USA
Hoerikwaggo, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2000
Soft Serve, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1999
Postcards from South Africa, Axis Gallery, New York, USA
1998
Printexchange, Print conference, Grahamstown, South Africa
4th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Kotchi, Japan
1997
London Printmakers Council, London, United Kingdom
1996
London Print Workshop, London, United Kingdom
