Keith Alexander · 1946 – 1998

Exhibitions

Exhibitions held during Keith Alexander’s lifetime, in South Africa and abroad.

1. 1970 – 74

   • Five exhibitions of sculpture, Johannesburg and Cape Town

2. 1974 – 75

   • Two group exhibitions, Madden Galleries, Johannesburg, where his first paintings were shown

3. 1975 – 79

   • Solo exhibition, Crake Gallery, Johannesburg
   • Solo exhibition, Madame Haenggi Gallery, Johannesburg
   • Three solo exhibitions, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg and Durban

4. 1980

   • Solo exhibition, Crake Gallery, Johannesburg

5. 1982

   • Solo exhibition, Stellenbosch Farmers’ Winery Centre, Johannesburg

6. 1983

   • Group exhibition, South African Realism, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
   • Solo exhibition of the Sperrgebiet series, Rembrandt Art Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

7. 1984

   • Group exhibition, Brompton Gallery, London

8. 1985

   • Solo exhibition, Rembrandt Art Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
   • Solo exhibition, State Opera Theatre, Pretoria

9. 1986

   • Solo exhibition, Mzuri Wildlife Trust, Reno, USA, featured on NBC television
   • Group exhibition, Namibia, Association of Arts, Pretoria
   • Solo exhibition, Images of Isolation, Keith Alexander Gallery, Johannesburg

10. 1987

    • Solo exhibition, Robertson Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
    • Solo exhibition, Natalie Knight Gallery, Johannesburg

11. 1988

    • Solo exhibition, Mzuri Wildlife Trust, San Francisco, USA
    • Group exhibition, Lillian Heidenberg Gallery, New York, USA
    • Solo exhibition, University of the Orange Free State

12. 1989

    • Solo exhibition, Mzuri Wildlife Trust, San Francisco, USA
    • Solo exhibition, Alexander’s Namibia, Gallery 191, Windhoek, Namibia
    • Group and solo exhibitions, Mussavi Gallery, New York, USA

13. 1990

    • Solo exhibition, Mussavi Gallery, New York, USA
    • Group exhibition, Ergane Gallery, New York, USA
    • Solo exhibition, Keith Alexander Gallery, Johannesburg

14. 1991

    • Solo exhibition, Ergane Gallery, New York, USA

15. 1992

    • Group exhibition, Ergane Gallery, New York, USA
    • Solo exhibition, Die Muschel Centenary Exhibition, Die Muschel, Swakopmund, Namibia
    • Solo exhibition, Arts Alive Festival, Johannesburg
    • Solo exhibition, Cape Town Arts Festival, Cape Town

16. 1993

    • Group exhibition, Develin Gallery, New York, USA
    • Group exhibition, ICA Gallery, Johannesburg
    • Live art at the artist’s studio, in aid of the Orlando Children’s Home, Soweto

17. 1994

    • Exhibited at the Presidency, Mahlamba Ndlopfu (formerly Libertas), Pretoria, at the invitation of President Nelson Mandela, during his inauguration
    • Solo exhibition, From Ruin to Reconstruction, Keith Alexander Gallery, Johannesburg, with the Reconstruction and Development Programme and the Develin Gallery, New York

18. 1995

    • Group exhibition, New Horizons, Art and Events Gallery, Toronto, Canada
    • Solo exhibition, Contemporary Art from South Africa, Keith Alexander Gallery, Johannesburg
    • Solo exhibition, Palais Preysing, Munich, Germany
    • Group exhibition, Painters for Peace, Swakopmund, Namibia

19. 1996

    • Group exhibition, The Open Window, Pretoria Gallery, Pretoria
    • Group exhibition, Eight Artists for UNCTAD, Johannesburg
    • Solo exhibition, Tomorrow is Now, Knight Galleries, Toronto, Canada
    • Solo exhibition, Relocation Exhibition, Keith Alexander Gallery, Johannesburg
    • Group exhibition, Gezirah Sheraton Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

20. 1997

    • International group exhibition, Art, an anti-destiny, a window upon the world, La Grande Arche de la Défense, Paris, France

21. 1998

    • Invited by the United Nations in Geneva to hold a solo exhibition, Alexander’s Millennium Exhibition, for which he was preparing some forty paintings. He died before it could take place.

Compiled from David Robbins, Keith Alexander: The Artist in Retrospect (Jonathan Ball, 2000).