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BIOGRAPHY GALLERY ARTICLES & LINKS CV: EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS

CV: exhibitions & awards

Exhibitions

1939
Selborne Hall, ( South African Academy ),  Johannesburg
Gainsborough Galleries,  Johannesburg
First Solo-Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery,  Johannesburg
1940
Selborne Hall, ( South African Academy ),  Johannesburg
Gainsborough Galleries, Johannesburg
1941
Selborne Hall, ( South African Academy ),  Johannesburg
1942
Duncan Hall, ( South African Academy ),  Johannesburg
1943
Gainsborough Galleries, ( New Group ),  Johannesburg
Salisbury,  Zimbabwe
1944
Argus Gallery, ( New Group ), Cape Town
Gainsborough Galleries, ( Contemporary Art ),  Johannesburg
Jerome Gallery, Cape Town
1945
Cape Town
1946
Gainsborough Galleries, ( Contemporary Art ),  Johannesburg
1947
Solo-Exhibition, Gainsborough Galleries,  Johannesburg
Solo-Exhibition, Christie's Pretoria
1948
Solo-Exhibition, French Overseas Colonial House, Paris
Gainsborough Galleries, ( New Group ),  Johannesburg
1948/50 
Tate Gallery, London, Belgium,  France,  Canada,  USA,  
Netherlands
South African National Gallery, Cape Town
1949
Solo-Exhibition,  Galerie Else-Clausen,  Paris
1950
Solo-Exhibition,  Galerie Vincent,  Pretoria
1951
Stockholm, Sweden
1952
Van Riebeeck Exhibition,  Cape Town
1953
Bulawayo,  Zimbabwe
1954
I.D. Booksellers Gallery,  Cape Town
1955
Petit Palais,  Paris
Lawrence Adler Gallery,  Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand,  Johannesburg
Galerie Reflets de Paris,  Hôtel du Parc,  Paris
1956
Galerie Art Primier,  Paris
1958
Lawrence Adler Gallery,  Johannesburg
1959
Lawrence Adler Gallery,  Johannesburg
1960
Solo-Exhibition,  Galerie Saint-Placide,  Paris
Salon d'Automme,  Paris
Lawrence Adler Gallery,  Johannesburg
1961
Galleria Santo Stefano,  Venice,  Italy
Adler  Fielding Gallery,  Johannesburg
1962
Adler  Fielding Gallery,  Johannesburg
1963
Morgenster Art dealers
Adler  Fielding Gallery,  Johannesburg
Durban Art Gallery
1964
Adler  Fielding Gallery,  Johannesburg
France 
1965
Adler  Fielding Gallery,  Johannesburg
Piccadilly Gallery,  London
1966
Théâtre Daniel Sorano,  Senegal
Pretoria Art Museum
Adler  Fielding Gallery,  Johannesburg
1967
Théâtre Daniel Sorano,  Senegal
1968
South African Association of Arts,  Pretoria
Solo-Exhibition,  Senegalese Embassy,  Paris
Solo-Exhibition,  Galerie Marthe Nochy, Paris
1969
Solo-Exhibition,  Galerie Christiane,  Paris
1970
Galleri BB,  Denmark
Gallery Randers,  Stockholm,  Sweden
1973
Galerie du Maraias,  Bourges,  France
Pretoria Art Museum
1975
Solo-Exhibition,  Atlantic Art Gallery,  Cape Town
1978
Solo-Exhibition,  Galerie Art Premier,  Paris
1980
Maison  de l'Afrique,  Paris
Johannesburg Art Gallery
Rand Afrikaans University,  Johannesburg
1981
Johannesburg Art Gallery
1984
South African National Gallery,  Cape Town
1986
Academy Gallery,  Paris
Washington, DC., USA
Alliance Française,  Pretoria
1986/87
Johannesburg Art Gallery
1988
Solo-Exhibition,  Cassirer Fine Art,  Johannesburg
South African National Gallery,  Cape Town
Natalie Knight Gallery,  Johannesburg
Johannesburg Art Gallery
1989
Johannesburg Art Gallery
University of the Witwatersrand
Standard Bank Arts Festival,  Grahamstown

 

 

Honours and Awards :

1924     
Prize for design of Botshabelo Training college badge
1937
Second prize May Esther Bedford Art Competition
1948
Sekoto's painting used on poster for exhibition of South African Art at the Tate Gallery,  London
1959
Sekoto's poster for second Congress of Negro writers and artists in Rome.
1964
Exhibition of African Art,  Nemours,  France 
1968
XIXe Grand Prix International de Peinture de Deauville
1989
Honorary Doctorate by University of the Witwatersrand,  Johannesburg

 

Collections :
His work is represented in numerous collections world wide including :
Johannesburg Art Gallery
South African National Art Gallery,  Cape Town
University of Fort Hare Collection
University of South Africa Collection,  Pretoria
University of the Witwatersrand
Sowetan Newspaper Collection,  Johannesburg
William Humphreys Art Gallery,  Kimberley
Municipal Collection of the City of Paris

 

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