Richardt Strydom
Artist Biography

Richardt Strydom is an award winning contemporary South African artist who works in a number of mediums including photography, digital collage, video, sound, painting, ceramics, readymades and appropriation. 

Strydom has participated in numerous national and international art and design exhibitions. 

He has received a number of South African art awards including an ABSA L’Atelier Merit Award (1997), a Sasol New Signatures Merit Award (1997) and Overall Winner of the Sasol New Signatures Competition in 2008.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Liewe Land III, University of Johannesburg Gallery, Johannesburg.

2023 Rugby group exhibition, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville.

2022 Unsettling the Single Society, North-West University Gallery, NWU, Potchefstroom.

2021 Somewhere over the rainbow - a celebration of hopes and dreams, Art and About Gallery, Rand Merchant Bank, Sandton.

2021 Family Dissemblance - a coda to gendering in Afrikaner nationalist discourse, virtual exhibition on University of Johannesburg SARCHI Chair website.

2021 Creature Feature, 151 Gallery, David Krut Projects, Parkwood, Johannesburg. 

2021  Envy, Nel, Cape Town. 

2021 Liewe Land, Aardklop Arts Festival, Voortrekker Monument heritage site, Pretoria.

2020 Double Vision 2020, Art.b Gallery, Belville.

2020 The Hang Turns Queer, Nel, Cape Town.

2020 The Portrait Show, Victoria Yards, Johannesburg.  

2019 SELF, The Gallery at Glen Carlou, Stellenbosch.

2019 The Cat Show, David Krut Gallery, Parkwood, Johannesburg. 

2019 Nel inaugural exhibition, Nel, Cape Town. 

2017 Rethinking Kakotopia, University of Johannesburg Gallery, Johannesburg.

2017 Booknesses: Artists Books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection, University of Johannesburg Gallery, Johannesburg.

2016 Figuratively Speaking: Selected works from the NWU and MTN art collections, Aardklop, North-West University Gallery, NWU, Potchefstroom.

2016 Performing Wo/Man, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein. 

2016 Lords of Winter, Equus Gallery, Cavalli Estate, Stellenbosch.

2015 TWENTY: Contemporary South African Art, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria; University of Johannesburg Gallery, Johannesburg.

2015 Aphrodisiac, Equus Gallery, Cavalli Estate, Stellenbosch.

2014 TWENTY: Contemporary South African Art, Turchin Centre, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina USA.

2014 Performing Wo/Man, University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg. 

2013 NWU Art Collection: Looking back while moving forward. North-West University Gallery, NWU, Potchefstroom.

2013 Reflective Conversations, North-West University Gallery, NWU, Potchefstroom.

2013  Velvet, Prince Vincent Building, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn. 

2013 Tom waits for no one, Prince Vincent Building, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn. 

2012  Dismotief, Potchefstroom City Hall, Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom.

2012 A shot to the arse, Michaelis Galleries, UCT, Cape Town. 

2012  Rendezvous Focus Painting, Michaelis Galleries, UCT, Cape Town; Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein; Innibos National Arts Festival, Mbombela.

2012 Ik ben een Afrikander III, Prince Vincent Building, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn. 

2011 Rendezvous Focus Painting, Alumni Hall, NWU Campus, Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom. 

2011 Lens: fractions of contemporary photography and video in South Africa, SASOL Art Museum, University of Stellenbosch. 

2010 Oor die einders van die bladsy, Africana-Room of the University of Stellenbosch’s Gericke Library, Woordfees, Stellenbosch; North-West University Gallery, NWU, Potchefstroom; FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg. 

2010 L'origine du monde, Snowflake Building, Aardklop  National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom.

2009 Design of Dissent, The Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar.

2009 STREEK, Potchefstroom Museum, Aardklop  National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom.

2008 Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria.

2007 Design of Dissent, Payne Gallery of Moravian College,  Pennsylvania, USA.

2007 Boere Kitsch, Principia College Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn

2007 Blindspot, North-West University Gallery, NWU, Potchefstroom.

2005 Design of Dissent, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA.

2004 geslag, Snowflake Building, Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom.

2003 Mini(20)maal, North-West University Gallery, NWU, Potchefstroom.

2003 Gesondaar, Snowflake Building, Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom

1999 ABSA L’Atelier, African Window, Pretoria.

1999 ABSA L’Atelier Winners 1986 – 1999, ABSA Towers, Johannesburg.

1998 Volkskas Atelier (Now ABSA L’Atelier), Pietersburg Arts Association, Polokwane. 

1998 International Human Rights Exhibition, The Old Fort, Hillbrow, Johannesburg.

1998 Buttons Exhibition, Civic Gallery, Braamfontein, Johannesburg.

1998 Im-material-ism, The Open Window, Pretoria.

1997 Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria.

1997 Volkskas Atelier (Now ABSA L’Atelier), Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein.

1997 I survived… unofficial performance at the opening of the  2nd  Johannesburg Biennale, Newtown, Johannesburg.

1997 Fifty Stories, Top of Africa, Carlton Centre, Johannesburg.

1996 Steel, Bensusan Museum of Photography, Museum Africa, Newtown, Johannesburg.

1995 Images of Change, Mmabana Cultural Centre, Mmabatho.

1995 Inside/Outside, Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, Market Theatre Complex, Newtown, Johannesburg.

1995 Volkskas Atelier (Now ABSA L’Atelier), University of Stellenbosch Gallery, Stellenbosch.

1995 Kempton Park/Tembisa Fine Arts Competition, Kempton Park.

1995 WITS Student Exhibition, Gertrude Posal Gallery, Senate  House, WITS University, Braamfontein, Johannesburg.