CURRICULUM VITAE

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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

2024 - Vestige,
Eduardo Secci Gallery,
Pietrasanta

2024 - Surface Tension,
WHATIFTHEWORLD,
Cape Town

2023 - Finds Taken for Wonders,
Piero Atchugarry Gallery,
Miami

2022 - Remains to be Seen,
Secci Gallery,
Milan

2022 - Solo presentation at Art Brussels,
WHATIFTHEWORLD,
Brussels

2021 - Elegy,
Nirox Foundation,
Johannesburg

2021 - As Below so Above,
WHATIFTHEWORLD,
Cape Town

2019 – Field of Vision,
WHATIFTHEWORLD,
Cape Town

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

2025 - We, the People: 30 Years of Democracy in South Africa, curated by Liese van der Watt.
Norval Foundation, Cape Town

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

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

2024 - IOTA24,
John Curtin Gallery, Perth

2023 - l’Art de Rien,
CENTRALE, Brussels

2022 - To Whistle Back,
Oude Leeskamer, Stellenbosch

2022 - A Quiet New Focus, curated by Sven Christian, Villa Legodi Centre for Sculpture,
Johannesburg

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

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

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

2021 - Margins of Error, Curated by Marta Moriarty, Nirox Sculpture Park,
Johannesburg

2020 – Matereality,
Iziko South African National Gallery
Cape Town

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

2018 – Germination,
RAW Material Company
Dakar

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES, AND COLLABORATIONS

2025 – Fellow of the Ampersand Foundation. Residency, NYC

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)

2022 – Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art Residency Award, Abbaye de la Cambre, Brussels

2021 – NIROX Foundation Residency, Nirox Sculpture Park, Johannesburg

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

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

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

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

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

2018 – Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art Residency Award, Knysna

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

The MACAAL Museum, Morocco

MONA - The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania

Fondazione D’Arc, Rome

The Bunker Artspace (The Beth Rudin DeWoody collection), West Palm Beach

Galila’s P.O.C., Brussels

The Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne

The Perez Collection, Miami

LAM Museum, Lisse

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

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, Bogotá

The Trevor Noah Collection, South Africa and USA

Francesca Lavazza Collection, Turin

STUDIO

TEXT

WORK

WORK

INFO