CURRICULUM VITAE

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 - Solo Presentation at The Armory Show, WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery,
New York, USA

2024 - Vestige,
Eduardo Secci Gallery,
Pietrasanta, Italy

2024 - Surface tension,
WHATIFTHEWORLD,
Cape Town, South Africa

2023 - Finds taken for wonders,
Piero Atchugarry Gallery,
Miami, USA

2022 - Remains to be seen,
Eduardo Secci Gallery,
Milan, Italy

2022 - Solo presentation at Art Brussels,
WHATIFTHEWORLD,
Brussels, Belgium

2021 - Elegy,
Nirox Foundation,
Johannesburg, South Africa

2021 - As below so above,
WHATIFTHEWORLD,
Cape Town, South Africa

2019 – Field of Vision,
WHATIFTHEWORLD,
Cape Town, South Africa

2019 – Solo Presentation at
TOMORROWS/TODAY,
Curated by Tumelo Mosaka,
Investec Cape Town Art Fair
Cape Town, South Africa

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 - Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200. Brooklyn, New York

2025 - Seven Contours, One Collection. Permanent exhibition at the Museum of African
Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL), Morocco

2025 - The Floridi Collection: A Journey Through History and Contemporary Art - curated by
Giuliana Benassi. Fondazione D’Arc, Rome, Italy

2024 - My World curated by Hans den Hartog Jager, Singer Laren, Laren, Netherlands

2024 - Collection Majudia, Selection of Works from the Collection - Summer 2024, Arsenal Contemporary, Montreal, Canada

2024 - IOTA24, John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia

2023 - l’Art de Rien,
CENTRALE
Brussels, Belgium

2022 - To Whistle Back,
Oude Leeskamer, Stellenbosch,
South Africa

2022 - A Quiet New Focus,
Villa Legodi Centre for Sculpture,
Johannesburg, South Africa

2022 - Seeds of the Fig, Krone x WHATIFTHEWORLD, curated by RESEVOIR, Tulbagh, South Africa

2022 - Earth Power!,
Montoro 12,
Brussels, Belgium

2022 - The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize Finalists Exhibition,
Norval Foundation,
Cape Town, South Africa

2021 - In Times Like These...and Other Stories,
WHATIFTHEWORLD,
Cape Town, South Africa

2021 - Witness, curated by Natasha Becker
Piero Atchugarry Gallery,
Miami, USA

2021 - 40 under 40, curated by Igsaan Martin.
Twee Jonge Gezellen Wine Estate, Krone x WHATIFTHEWORLD, Tulbagh, South Africa.

2021 - Margins of Error,
Nirox Sculpture Park,
Johannesburg, South Africa

2020 – Matereality
Iziko South African National Gallery
Cape Town, South Africa

2019 – Process
BKhz,
Braamfontein, South Africa

2019 – Il est une fois à l’Ouest
Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA
Bordeaux, France

2018 – Germination
RAW Material Company
Dakar, Senegal

2018 – Forward?
Curated by Ulrich Wolff and Elizabeth Miller-Vermeulen,
Stellenbosch University Museum,
Stellenbosch, South Africa

2018 – Fresh Voices
Guns and Rain Gallery
Johannesburg, South Africa

2017 – NEWWORK19
Wits Art Museum
Johannesburg, South Africa

2016 – Activate/Captivate: Collections Re-engagement
Wits Art Museum
Johannesburg, South Africa

COLLABORATIONS

2020 – Selected as one of ten contemporary artists to participate in the 5th edition of the Dior Lady Art project

AWARDS

2025 - Residency Award by Fundación Patiño in recognition of artist’s presentation at Zona Maco,
held at Villa Albina, Bolivia

2024 – African Leadership Initiative - Young Leaders Fellow (5th Class)

2021 – Finalist, Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, Cape Town, South Africa

2020 – Recipient of The Claire & Edoardo Villa Will Trust Grant

2019 – SEED Award
Presented by the Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art (SAFFCA) - For career acknolwedgment

2018 – PPC Imaginarium Award, Overall winner, and winner of the Sculpture category

RESIDENCIES

2025 - Fellow of the Ampersand Foundation. Residency, New York City, USA

2025 - Residency Award by Fundación Patiño in recognition of artist’s presentation at Zona Maco,
held at Villa Albina, Bolivia

2022 - SAFFCA.EU, La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium

2021 - Nirox Foundation Residency, Nirox Sculpture Park, Johannesburg, South Africa

2019 – Roma Residenza, hosted by Montoro 12, Rome

2018 – Fellow of the RAW Academié Session 5, directed by Otobong Nkanga. RAW Material Company. Dakar, Senegal

2018 – Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art. Co-resident with Minnette Vari. Entabeni Farm, Knysna, South Africa

COLLECTIONS

Chris Soal has works in numerous private and public collections, both in South Africa and Internationally. Notable collections include:

The Brooklyn Museum, USA

de Young Museum, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, USA

The MACAAL Museum, Morocco

MONA - The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia

Fondazione D’Arc, Rome, Italy

The Bunker Artspace, (The Beth Rudin DeWoody collection), USA

Galila’s P.O.C., Brussels, Belgium

The Braunsfelder Family Collection, Germany

The Perez Collection, Miami, USA

LAM Museum, Lisse, Netherlands

The Kelly and Scott Mueller Collection, USA

The EKARD Collection, Netherlands, USA

Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection - Cloud Seven, Brussels

Arsenal Contemporary | The Majudia Collection, Montreal; Toronto; New York, USA

The Scheryn Art Collection, South Africa

Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art (SAFFCA), South Africa, France, Belgium

Kavita Chellaram Art collection, London, Lagos

Martin Nielsen Collection, Denmark

D+C Family Collection and Art Foundation, Miami, Bogota

The Trevor Noah Collection, South Africa & USA

Francesca Lavazza Collection, Turin, Italy

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