Selected One-Person Exhibitions

2015

"Dusk"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2013

"Breakpoint"   Clark Gallery, Lexington, MA

2013

"Break"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2012

"Breakwater"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2012

"ARC"   Bernstein Gallery, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

2011

"Tideline"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2011

"Tidal Pools/ Breakwaters"   NKG Gallery, Boston, MA

2009

"Source"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2008

"Transformer"   Boston Arts Academy, Boston, MA

2007

"Gate"   The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2006

"Being here and Not There: Fragments and Reliquaries From Robben Island"   W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, HarvardUniversity

2004

"The Island"   David Krut Projects, New York, NY

2002

"Slip Slide"   Schoolhouse Galleries, Provincetown, MA

2001

"Crossing"   Schoolhouse Galleries, Provincetown, MA

2000

"Scatterlings"   Hampden Gallery, U. Mass, Amherst

2000

"Fragments"   Groton School, Groton, MA

1999

"Figuring"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1998

"Essential Gestures"   Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, MA

1996

"Love’s Body"   Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, MA

1995

"Alchemist"   Holzwasser Gallery, New Art Center, Newton, MA

1993

"Offerings"   Akin Gallery, Boston, MA

1992

"African Herbs"   McQuade Library Art Gallery, Merrimack College, Andover, MA

1988

"Gallerie Sandoz"   Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

1988

New Art Center, Newton, MA

1988

Gallery II, Tufts University, Medford, MA

1987

Association of Arts Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa

1986

Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1983

Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1981

Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1980

Guest Artist, Johannesburg Art Gallery

1979

Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1978

Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1976

Walsh Marais Gallery, Durban, South Africa

1974

Walsh Marais Gallery, Durban, South Africa

1971

Walsh Marais Gallery, Durban, South Africa

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016

"Blue Cape"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2012

"Klip En Klei"   Grevillas Gallery Breytenbach Sentrum, Wellington, South Africa

2012

"WAM! Seeing Stars"   Witwatersrand University Art Museum, Johannesburg,South Africa

2009

":EEC 25: Forward>March"   Spier Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2009

"Violence Transformed"   Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA

2009

"Two Person Exhibition (with Peter Scott)"   Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA

2008

"Is there still Life"   Sanlam Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2008

"Apartheid. The South African Mirror."   Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Curated by Pep Subiros

2007

Art Now Fair, Miami, FL

2005

"Rust-en-Vrede Gallery"   Cape Town, South Africa

2005

"Four Person Exhibition"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2004

"Excavation and Reconstruction in Contemporary African Art"   Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2003

"Four Person Exhibition"   Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2002

"Faculty Exhibition"   Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2002

"A Continent Away: Multiple Identities in Contemporary African Art"   Brush Gallery, Lowell, MA

2002

"Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa"   University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ

2001

"Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa"   ris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford, CA

2001

"Faculty Choice"   Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, CO

2000

"Drawings & Photographs"   Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY

2000

"Day Without Art"   Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

2000

"Awake"   Harbor Gallery, U. Mass, Boston, MA

2000

"Inside/Out"   Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

1999

"Destination/Place"   Schoolhouse Galleries, Provincetown, MA

1999

"Postcards from South Africa"   Axis Gallery, New York, NY

1999

"Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa"   The Museum for African Art, New York, NY

1998

"Recent American Portraits bree"   George Sherman Union Gallery, Boston University, MA

1998

"The Contemporary Artist as Observer and Observed"   The Brush Art Gallery and Studios, Market Mills, Lowell, MA

1998

Schoolhouse Galleries, Provincetown, MA

1997

"Eighth Triennial"   Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA

1996

"Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa"   Malmo Kunsthall, Malmo, Sweden

1996

"Visiting Faculty Exhibition"   Carpenter Center, Harvard University,Cambridge, MA

1995

"Something Human"   Towne Art Gallery, Wheelock College, Boston, MA

1995

"Taking Liberties: The Body Politic"   Africus Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa

1995

"Siyawela"   Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England

1995

"Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa"   Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England

1994

"Faculty Exhibition"   Tisch Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, MA

1994

"Faculty Exhibition"   New Art Center, Newton, MA

1994

"Visual Arts Showcase"   Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

1994

"BOSTON (in dialogue) NOW"   Institute for Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA

1993

"Faculty Exhibition"   School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1993

"Christmas Exhibition"   New Art Center, Newton, MA

1993

"Anything but Paper Prayers"   Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA

1992

"Autopia"   Akin Gallery, Boston, MA

1992

"Salon"   Akin Gallery, Boston, MA

1992

"Faculty Exhibition"   New Art Center, Newton, MA

1992

"Symphony of Prosperity"   Akin Gallery, Boston, MA

1991

"Confronting Political and Social Evil"   Tufts University, Medford, MA

1991

"Faculty Biennial"   Starr Gallery, Grossman Campus, Newton, MA

1990

"Voices from South Africa"   Stuart Levy Gallery, New York, NY

1990

"Faculty Exhibition"   New Art Center, Newton, MA

1990

"Let the Voices be Heard"   Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

1990

"The Body Politic: Three Figurative Artists"   McQuade Library Art Gallery, Merrimack College, Andover

1989

"Faculty Exhibition"   School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1989

"Three Person Exhibition"   Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA

1988

"Five South African Artists"   Boston, Boston, MA

1988

"Detention Without Trial: 100 Artists Protest"   Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1988

"Culture in Another South Africa"   Amsterdam, Holland

1987

"Director’s Exhibition"   Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1987

"Vita Awards Exhibition"   Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1987

"P.O.W."   Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1987

Five South African Artists

Public Lectures and Conferences

2011

"Visual Strategies of Space and Place in the African Landscape,African Studies Association Conference"   Smithsonian Museum of African Art, Washington, DC

2009

"New Geographies in Contemporary African Art"   Harvard Committee on African studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2009

"Painting Robben Island: Representing History in Post Apartheid South Africa"   Office of Multicultural Affairs, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2004

"Excavation and Reconstruction in Contemporary South African Art"   Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2003

"Art on a Tightrope, Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa"   The Rose Art museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2001

"Liberated Voices Symposium"   Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

1999

"Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa"   PANEL,The Museum for African Art, New York, NY

1997

"Panel: “Panoramas of Passage, Changing Landscapes of South Africa”"   Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

1997

"African Celebration"   Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

1996

"Public Lecture, Visiting Faculty, Carpenter Center"   Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

1995

"The Road to Mecca/ The Road to Boston"   LECTURE: Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT

1989

"International Artists Symposium"   Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

1988

"Paper delivered: Politics, Culture and the Struggle for Liberation"   South-Eastern Massachusetts University, MA

1988

"Paper delivered: Politics, Culture and the Struggle for Liberation"   Tufts University, Medford, MA

1988

"Paper delivered: Politics, Culture and the Struggle for Liberation"   Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

1988

"Panelist “Surviving Visions”, Symposium: Art and Social Responsibility"   Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

1988

"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   Boston University, Boston, MA

1988

"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   Wessell Library, Tufts University, Medford, MA

1988

"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   Rutgers University (Invitation of Leon Golub), NJ

1988

"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   Newton Arts Center, Newtonville, MA

1988

"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   ASEAN Auditorium, Tufts University, Medford, MA

1988

"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   Castleton State College, Castleton, VT

1988

"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1988

"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   Leventhal-Sidman Community Center, Newton, MA

1988

"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1988

"In the Face of That Place (Survival Tactics in South African Art)"   The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1981

"Art and Social Change"   University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

1981

"Art and Society"   University of Natal, Durban, South Africa

1979

"The State of Art in South Africa"   Conference at University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Honors and Awards

2010

"Board of Directors"   South African Development Fund, Boston, MA

2006

"Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning"   Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2004

Residency, The Robben Island Museum, South Africa

2003

Ohio Arts Council Jury for OHC Fellowship Awards

2003

Delivered the Ruth First Memorial Lecture, Brandies University, Waltham MA

2000

Residency, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT

1998

Juror, The Copley Society of Boston, Boston, MA

1995

Juror, Worcester Art Association, Worcester, MA

1994

Juror, New Hampshire Individual artist Fellowship: Visual Art Panel

1994

Curator, The Copley Society of Boston, Holiday Invitational Exhibition

1993

Engelhard Fellowship at Bequia,, West Indies

1987

Judge for the Federated Union of Black Artists, National Student Exhibition

1986

The Ian Haggie Award for best Artist, "Visions", Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1985

The Rodney Burn Award for Figurative Drawing, Royal College of Art, London, England

1984

Director, Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1984

British Council Scholarship to study in the United Kingdom

1980

External Examiner for Drawing, UNISA, Department of Fine Arts, Pretoria, South Africa

1972

Member, Editorial Board of “Reality”, (Current Affairs Journal, Editor, Alan Paton)

1971

Institute of Race Relations Award, South Africa

1970

Member, Theatre Council of Natal (TECON), Non-Racial Theatre Group

1970

Student Representative Council Award for Best Student, Johannesburg School of Art, Johannesburg, South Africa

Teaching Resume

2013

"Full Time Faculty, Drawing Area Representative"   School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2010

"Continuing Part Time Faculty"   School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2007

"Visiting Full Time Faculty"   School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2005

"Director of Undergraduate Studies, Visual and Environmental Studies"   Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2003

"Head Tutor, Visual and Environmental Studies Department"   Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

1996

"Visiting Artist, Visual and Environmental Studies Department"   Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

1989

"Associate Faculty"   Tufts University, Medford, MA

1988

"Artist-in-Residence"   Tufts University, Medford, MA

1978

"Senior Tutor, Department of Fine Arts"   University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

1977

"Tutor, Department of Fine Arts"   University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

1976

"Part-time Lecturer,Department of Architecture"   University of Natal, South Africa

1971

"Lecturer in Fine Art"   Natal Technical College, Durban, South Africa

Additional Teaching Experience

2012

"Summer School Program"   Fine Art Work Center , Provincetown, MA

2011

"Visiting Artist: Lecture and Student Critiques"   Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2010

"Drawing Into Painting"   Harvard Summer School, Cambridge, MA

2009

"Graduate Drawing Seminar and Workshop:"   Massart at the Fine Art Work Center , Provincetown,MA

2009

"Graduate Thesis Reviews,low residency program"   Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

2009

"Graduate Thesis Reviews, low residency program"   Fine Art Work Center, Provicentown, MA

2008

"Drawing Intensive Workshop"   Robben Island, South Africa

2008

"Drawing 2-Day Workshop, winter session"   Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2004

"Weeklong intensive drawing and painting program"   Art New England, Bennington, VT

1999

"Introduction to Drawing and Drawing Into Painting"   Harvard Summer School, Cambridge, MA

Public Collections

2016

Harvard University Film Archive, Cambridge, MA

2016

Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

2016

Tufts University, Medford, MA

2016

The Council House Gallery, Wisconsin, USA

2016

The Kaufman Handel Maatschappij, Rotterdam, Holland

2016

National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2016

Durban Art Museum, Durban, South Africa

2016

Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2016

University of the Witwatersrand Art Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa

2016

Natal Technikon, Durban, South Africa

2016

UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa

2016

Pretoria Art Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa

Corporate Collections

2016

Total Systems Services, Columbus, Georgia

2016

Goodwin Proctor, Boston, MA

2016

Biogen, Cambridge, MA

Education

1985

"SCC (one year post graduate)"   Royal College of Art, London

1976

NATD (four year course), Johannesburg College of Art

Selected Bibliography

2016

"African art brings themes from ‘A Continent Away",   BOSTON GLOBE, April 19 by Cate McQuaid

2015

"Biko’s Ghost: The Iconography of Black Consciousness",   Shannen Hill, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis/London, 2015

2013

"Voices of Liberation: Steve Biko",   HSRC Press by Derek Hood

2013

"Break Point",   Art New England, May/June 2013 by Christine Temin

2007

"Paintings With a Silvery Mood",   Boston Globe, August 23 by Cate McQuaid

2006

"Paul Stopforth: PORTRAIT",   The Harvard Crimson, April 20, 2006 by Zoe M. Savitsky

2005

"First Word: Excavation and Reconstruction in Contemporary African Art",   African Arts, Spring 2005 by Mark Auslander

2004

"Sacred fragments: Looking Back at the Art of Paul Stopforth",   African Arts, Winter 2004 by Sandra Klopper

2002

"arts MEDIA",   arts MEDIA, April 15—May 15, 2002

2002

"This New Body of Work is Beautifully Abstract",   BOSTON GLOBE, August 10 by Christine Temin

2002

"An Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century",   Revue Noir Editions: African Contemporary Art: Paris by dited by N’Gone Fall & Jean Loup Pivin

2002

"Experiments with Truth: Transitional Justice and the Processes of Truth and Reconciliation",   Trauma and Truth, Rory Bester, DOCUMENTA11_ PLATFORM2 by Edited by Okwui Enwezor Carlos Basualdo, Ute Meta Bauer, Susanne Ghez, Sarat Maharaj, Mark Nash, Octavio Zaya

2001

"Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa",   BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE, November 26 by Christine Temin

2001

"BAD BEHAVIOR",   Rizzoli Publishing by Bill Haywood

2001

"Stopforth Expands",   BOSTON GLOBE, August 15 by Christine Temin

1999

"Free Show",   SCHOOLHOUSE CENTER PUBLICATION by Sal Randolph,

1999

"Destination/? Place",   SCHOOLHOUSE CENTER PUBLICATION by Michael Carroll and Jim Cory

1999

"Truth and the Art of Healing",   BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE, January 3 by Christine Temin

1999

"Postcards from South Africa",   NEW YORK TIMES, September 10 by Holland Cotter

1999

"South Africans, Isolated No More",   NEW YORK TIMES, September 24 by Holland Cotter

1998

"Paul Stopforth’s Eloquent Mimes",   BOSTON GLOBE, October 7 by Christine Temin

1998

"The Superb and the Shoddy: Best Art 1988",   BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE by Christine Temin

1997

"Contemporary South African Art 1985-1995 from the South African National Gallery Permanent Collectio",   SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL GALLERY

1996

"Stopforth’s Bodies Bear Their Souls",   BOSTON GLOBE, September 10 by Christine Temin

1996

"Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa",   ARTFORUM, January by Jean Fisher

1996

"Profile: Paul Stopforth",   ART NEW ENGLAND, April/May by Lois Tarlow

1996

"Returning the Curve: Africa 95, Teng, and “Seven Stories”",   AFRICANARTS, Summer 96

1995

"Moving from Clenched Fists to Open Arms",   BOSTON GLOBE, May 12 by Christine Temin

1995

"Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa",   CATALOGUE WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY, London, England, September to December: MALMO KUNSTHALL, Malmo, Sweden, January to March

1995

"Die Veelheid van Een Verhaal",   DE STANDAARD, Belgium, October 13 by Peter Vantyghen

1995

"Africa Now",   ART MONTHLY, November by Margaret Garlake

1995

"Always Something New Out of Africa",   TIMES, London, October 24 by Richard Cork

1995

"Star Attraction",   BOSTON GLOBE, November 15 by Christine Temin

1994

"Market Gallery",   THE WEEKLY MAIL AND GUARDIAN, Johannesburg, South Africa, June 10-16 by Ivor Powell

1994

"Strong Art, Weak Premise in ICA Show",   BOSTON GLOBE, August 5 by Nancy Stapen

1994

"EducaArtist",   TUFTS JOURNAL, Novemberting the by Frederick H. Kalil

1993

"In ‘93 Galleries Put Ingenuity on Display",   BOSTON GLOBE, December 30 by Nancy Stapen

1993

"Paul Stopforth: Offerings",   ART NEW ENGLAND, June/July by Meredith Fife Day

1993

"Paul Stopforth",   ARTNEWS, Summer 1993 by Nancy Stapen

1992

"150 MASTERPIECES OF SOUTH AFRICAN PAINTING",   Struik Publisher, Cape Town, South Africa by Barbara Clarke

1992

"Confronting the Anguish: Paul Stopforth Shines a Harsh Light on South Africa’s Oppression",   BOSTON GLOBE, October 3 by Christine Temin

1992

"1989 RESISTANCE ART IN SOUTH AFRICA",   St. Martin's Press, NY by Sue Williamson

1992

"Paul Stopforth",   PRISMA: A MULTICULTURAL FORUM, Winter by Cathy Crossman

1992

"Autopia",   BOSTON GLOBE, February 27 by Nancy Stapen

1986

"A Subtle New Stopforth Moves Beyond the Literal",   THE WEEKLY MAIL, October 9 by Ivor Powell

1981

"No Show as Govt. Bars Biko Art",   RAND DAILY MAIL, October by Bev Mortimer

1981

"Enigmatic Comment on Society’s Harshness: Paul Stopforth and Michael Goldberg at the Market Theater",   RAND DAILY MAIL, November by Anne Pogrund

1980

"CONVERSATIONS",   Bateleur Press by Avril Herber

1980

"Local Artist Paul Leaves Sentiment Way Behind",   SUNDAY EXPRESS, September 17 by Joyce Ozynski

1980

"A Response to Violence: Paul Stopforth Exhibition of Drawings",   RAND DAILY MAIL, August 14 by Anne Sassoon

1979

"ART AND ARTISTS OF SOUTH AFRICA",   Johnathan Cape Publisher, Revised edition by Esme Berman

1978

"The Hidden Horror-in-Open View",   WEEKEND WORLD, September 25 by Miriam Jacob

1976

"Stopforth is Mixing Politics and Palettes",   SUNDAY EXPRESS, May 12 by Joyce Ozynski