Ivy Chemutai Brandie Ng’ok

Studies

2017 MFA with emphasis in Painting, Rhodes University, South Africa

2014 Bachelor of Fine Arts with emphasis in Painting, Rhodes University, South Africa

Research Thesis/ Dissertations

Masters Graduate Solo Exhibition “Riot” 2017

Master of Fine Art Thesis: “A Counter-narrative Analysis of Psychological Riot in Contemporary Painting”

Final 4th Year Thesis: “Liminality, Masculinity, and Memory in the work of Kemang Wa Lehulere and Nicholas Hlobo”

Awards and Residencies

2019 Fountainhead Residency, Miami in collaboration with the Africa Centre Award.

2016 Masters bursary as part of the Mellon Focus Area: Visual and Performing Arts of Africa (ViPAA) at Rhodes University

2016 Raymond Pullen Bursary for the Arts at Rhodes University

2015

Popty 2015 International Artists Workshop in Wales.(17th -24th October)

2015 Rhodes University Masters Degree Scholarship

2015 Helen Timm Award, Painting at Rhodes University

Solo presentations

2022. Matthew Brown Los Angeles, California, USA. (Upcoming)

2021. An Enigma , Central Fine Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

2017 Self Esteem for Girls , FNB Joburg Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Group Presentations

2021 Aletheia (Central Fine Gallery) Miami Beach, Florida. USA.

2020 Love your symptom,but not too much (Blank Projects) Capetown, South Africa.

2019 The head the hand (Blank Projects) Capetown, South Africa.

My Kind of Protest (Pippy Houldsworth Gallery)London, United Kingdom.

2018 New Museum Triennial “Songs for Sabotage” , curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Gary Carrion-murayari, New Museum, New York, USA.

Sister Sister (Grahamstown National Arts Festival Grahamstown, South Africa.

2017 African Voices (National Gallery of Zimbabwe), Harare, Zimbabwe.

2016 Summer Show ’16 (SMAC Gallery), Stellenbosch, South Africa.

FNB Joburg Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Surface Tension (GUS Gallery), Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Upstart/Startup, (SMAC Gallery), Johannesburg, South Africa.

Cape Town Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), CTICC, Cape Town, South Africa.

2015 FNB Joburg Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Emerging Painters: The Graduate Show, Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Speaking Back, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair (Smac Gallery), Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York, USA.

Pooling our Secrets, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

LUSH, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

2014 Rhodes Student Exhibition, Grahamstown National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Rhodes Graduate Solo Exhibition,“Social Revolution” 2014 Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Selected Press

INSIGHT: Week 15| Chemu Ng’ok|14-20 October 2020 https://www.houldsworth.co.uk/viewing-room/23-insight-week-15-chemu-ng-ok/

Art & Power : Art Creativity and Politics from Africa and the Diaspora A brief Insight into Reflections of Power, Protest and Leadership. PAVILLON54.COM/ November 18 2020 https://pavillon54.com/blog/art-and-power-art-creativity-and-politics-from-africa-and-the-diaspora/

The Essential Artists You Need to Know Right Now. ELEPHANT/ April 8 2020 https://elephant.art/the-essential-artists-you-need-to-know-right-now-09042020/

The Art World: Aesthetics and Politics at the New Museum Triennial by Peter Schjeldahl. NEW YORKER/March 5, 2018 Issue https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/aesthetics-and-politics-at-the-new-museums-triennial

Arts and Culture Rookie review: I’m made out of plastic here by Zaza Hlalethwa. MAIL&GUARDIAN/ September 15 to 21 2017 https://mg.co.za/article/2017-09-15-00-rookie-review-im-made-out-of-plastic-here

Chemu Ng’ok featured under BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS in ART AFRICA / September 2015