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b. 1975, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.

FRANCES GOODMAN

Frances Goodman was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1975, where she currently lives and works. Goodman obtained a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College at the University of London, United Kingdom in 2000, and holds a Laureateship from the Hoger Instituut Voor Schone Kunsten (HISK) in Antwerp, Belgium. She was a recipient of the Cecily Brown Fellowship for  Outstanding Woman Artists in 2014 and took part in The Fountainhead Residency Programme in Miami, USA, in 2015; and Sundaymorning@ekwc Artist Residency in Oisterwijk, The Netherlands in 2021. In 2023, SMAC Gallery  released a publication titled Through The Glass, Sparkling

 

Goodman will be presenting a solo booth, Mirror Me This, curated by Celine Seror, as part of the solo section of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair with SMAC Gallery in 2025.  

 

Goodman presented her latest solo exhibition, Red Runs Through, Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire, Paris, France in 2024.  Further selected solo exhibitions include: Altered States at SMAC Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2023 and Ecstacy at Galleri Spectra in Copenhagen in 2022; Transmogrified at Richard Taittinger Gallery in New York, USA in 2021. Uneventful Days, at  SMAC Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa and Summer Focus: Frances Goodman, at Galleri SPECTA in Copenhagen, Denmark, both in 2020. Offstage at SMAC Gallery in Johannesburg, and Spit/Swallow, at Galleri SPECTA, in Copenhagen, Denmark both in 2018; Beneath Her at Richard Taittinger in New York City, USA in 2017; Degreened at SMAC Gallery in Cape Town, and Rapaciously Yours, Richard Taittinger Gallery in New York, both in 2016. Let Your Hair Down, curated by Jennie Lamensdorf as part of the (TEI) Art- in-Buildings Programme in New York, and Lick It at Walgreens Art Windows, Art Center South Florida, in Miami, USA, both in 2015.  

 

Recent notable group exhibitions include: Frieze Sculpture with Gallery Specta in  London, UK and I Hit You with a Flower at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam in Schiedam, The Netherlands in 2024. Art Paris with Les Filles du Calvaire and Investec Cape Town Art Fair with SMAC Gallery at Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa in 2023. Women, Richard Taittinger 

Gallery, New York, USA and Naughty Aughties, SMAC Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa both in 2022. In 2021, Ubuntu, a lucid dream at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France and Soft/Loud at Art in Buildings, Michigan, USA. Matereality at Iziko South African National Gallery and MY BODY, MY RULES at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), USA in 2020; I am... Contemporary Women Artists of Africa at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, USA in 2019 and  The Red Hour, curated by Simon Njamiat Dak’Art: African Contemporary Art Biennale in Dakar, Senegal in 2018. 

 

Her work is part of various international collections including The National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, USA, the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) Collection in Miami, USA and The Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) in Marrakech, Morocco.  


Biography
E X H I B I T I O N S
Exhibitions

FRANCES GOODMAN
Altered States
02. 09. 23 | Johannesburg

FRANCES GOODMAN
Uneventful Days
31. 10. 20 – 05. 12. 20 | Cape Town


FRANCES GOODMAN
Artist Room
20. 06. 20 – 24. 07. 20 | Cape Town

FRANCES GOODMAN
Offstage
08. 09. 18 – 20. 10. 18 | Johannesburg

FRANCES GOODMAN
Degreened
29. 10. 16 – 03. 12. 16 | Cape Town

SMAC
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