Exhibitions

This is a list of exhibitions, by and about Cecil Skotnes, extracted from the Chronology.

  • 1948 Exhibition at the South African Academy.
  • 1953 Polly Street Workshop Exhibition, University of the Witwatersrand.
  • 1954 Exhibition of Polly Street work at Helen de Leeuw’s Craftsman’s Market opened by Father Trevor Huddleston.
  • 1954 First professional exhibition of paintings with Larry Scully at Whippman’s Gallery, Johannesburg.
  • 1957 First one person exhibition at the Pretoria Art Centre opened by Walter Battiss.
  • 1957 Represented South Africa at Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil.
  • 1958 Participated in South African exhibition at Rhodes National Gallery, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
  • 1958 Represented South Africa at the Venice Biennial, Italy.
  • 1959 Solo exhibition of woodcuts at Wittenborn Gallery, New York.
  • 1959 Represented South Africa on a touring exhibition in South and North America. Painting and Sculpture, National Arts Club, New York.
  • 1959 Represented South Africa at Sao Paulo Biennial Brazil.
  • 1959 Represented on the National Arts Club International Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, New York.
  • 1960 Three works chosen for exhibition of graphic art in Munich, Germany.
  • 1962 Guest Artist of the Year at the Transvaal Academy.
  • 1962 Exhibition of Rock Faces, Egon Guenther Gallery, Johannesburg.
  • 1963 Represented South Africa at the International Conference of Plastic Arts at UNESCO, New York.
  • 1963 Exhibition tour of Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan at the Gallerie Numero.
  • 1964 Represented South Africa at the Venice Biennial, Italy.
  • 1965 First solo exhibition at the Grosvener Gallery, London.
  • 1965 Participated in South African Artists exhibition at Grosvener Gallery, London.
  • 1966 Joint exhibition with Sydney Kumalo, Grosvener Gallery, London.
  • 1966 Together with Eleanor Esmond-White won competition to design tapestries, Diamonds and Gold for the Ernest Oppenheimer Theatre in Welkom, Free State. The tapestries were woven in Aubusson, France and together with French contemporary tapestries were shown at the Johannesburg Art Gallery before installation in the theatre.
  • 1966 Represented South Africa the Venice Biennial, Italy.
  • 1967 Represented South Africa at the Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil.
  • 1967 Participated in an international exhibition at the Grosvener Gallery, London.
  • 1967 Exhibition of drawings and serigraphs at the SA Gallery, Durban.
  • 1968 Exhibition at the South African Association of Arts Gallery, Pretoria.
  • 1968 Represented South Africa in Lisbon, Portugal at the Gulbenkian Foundation.
  • 1968 Represented South Africa at the Venice Biennial, Italy.
  • 1969 Exhibition at the South African Association of Arts Gallery, Pretoria.
  • 1969 Invited to exhibit at the International Graphic Art exhibition in Carpi, Italy.
  • 1970 Exhibition at University of Stellenbosch Art Gallery.
  • 1971 Participated in a touring exhibition to Belgium, the Netherlands and West Germany, organised by the South African Association of Arts under the auspices of the Department of National Education.
  • 1971 Two woodcuts accepted for an international exhibition of contemporary xilography at the Museo Espagnol de Arte Contemporanea, Madrid.
  • 1971 Represented South Africa at the Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil.
  • 1971 Invited to the International exhibition Xilografia Contemporanea Bologna, Italy, Galleria Chalet Della Rose.
  • 1971 Represented South Africa in Madrid, Spain.
  • 1971 Touring exhibition in the Netherlands and West Germany.
  • 1971 Exhibition of Icons at Totem-Meneghelli Gallery, Johannesburg.
  • 1972 Retrospective exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum where 209 works were exhibited.
  • 1972 Exhibition at the William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley.
  • 1972 Exhibition at the National Museum, Bloemfontein.
  • 1973 Invited to international Contemporary Woodcut and Engraving exhibition at the Academy, Ravenna, Italy.
  • 1974 Represented South Africa at the National Art Museum in Athens, Greece.
  • 1974 Exhibition of The Assassination of Shaka at the Royal Belgian Congo Museum, Tervuren, Belgium.
  • 1975 Exhibition of paintings On a Visit to a Battle Site and the portfolio The White Monday Disaster at the Goodman Gallery, Sandton.
  • 1976 Exhibition of wood panels and Ten Landscapes, a portfolio with poetry by Stephen Gray at the Goodman Gallery, Sandton.
  • 1976 Participated in Decorated Bone exhibition (elephant, giraffe, whale) at the Rand Afrikaans University and Totem Meneghelli with artists Guiseppe Cattaneo, Trevor Coleman, Aileen Lipkin, Lucky Sibiya.
  • 1976 Participated in a South African graphic art exhibition, SA Consulate General, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • 1977 Exhibition of panels, totems, woodcuts, drawings and jewellery at the Art Gallery of the University of Stellenbosch.
  • 1977 Exhibition of sculpture and a series of paintings on the Epic of Gilgamesh at the Goodman Gallery, Sandton.
  • 1978 First public showing in South Africa of the portfolio Homage au Prix Nobel at the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown.
  • 1979 Participated in South African Printmakers: works from the South African National Gallery, exhibited in Cape Town and Grahamstown and the Worcester Museum.
  • 1979 Exhibition of artist’s book Man’s Gold with 28 woodcuts and poetry by Stephen Gray in National Museum Bloemfontein.
  • 1980 Tapestries at the South African National Gallery tapestry exhibition, Cape Town.
  • 1980 Participated in Cape Artists exhibition at Museum Art Hall, Bloemfontein.
  • 1980 Wood engravings, wood panels and Man’s Gold exhibited at the Goodman Gallery, Sandton.
  • 1980 Participated in South African and International Tapestries and Wall Hangings Exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
  • 1980 Man’s Gold exhibition at the University of the Witwatersrand Friends of the University Art Galleries.
  • 1981 First Cape Town solo exhibition Passage through an Alien Land, at the Wolpe Gallery, Cape Town.
  • 1982 Exhibition of handcoloured woodcuts and wood engravings at Hugo Naude House, Worcester.
  • 1983 Exhibition Judean Walls, Goodman Gallery, Sandton.
  • 1983 Exhibition at the Ernst de Jong Gallery Pretoria.
  • 1984 Selected retrospective exhibition at the University of Cape Town’s Irma Stern Museum.
  • 1986 Johannesburg and New York exhibitions with Edoardo Villa, Ezrom Legae and Sydney Kumalo.
  • 1986 Participated in BMW exhibition Tributaries at the Johannesburg Market Gallery and in Germany.
  • 1987 Joint exhibition with John Skotnes at the Goodman Gallery in Sandton.
  • 1987 Exhibition of drawings at the South African Association of Arts, Cape Town.
  • 1988 Exhibition at South African Association of Arts, Cape Town, including woodcuts and engravings illustrating the narrative poem Pilgrimage to Dias Cross by Guy Butler.
  • 1989 Joint exhibition with John and Pippa Skotnes at the Kunstkabinett Gallery, Windhoek, South West Africa (Namibia).
  • 1989 Cecil Skotnes and Edoardo Villa exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the museum.
  • 1990 Exhibited Icons for Makana at the Basel Art Fair in Switzerland.
  • 1992 Exhibition of landscape paintings at the Goodman Gallery, Sandton.
  • 1992 Exhibition of landscape paintings The Cape Winelands at the University of Stellenbosch Museum.
  • 1993 Exhibition of Still Life and Ancestry, Goodman Gallery, Sandton.
  • 1994 Exhibition at the South African Association of Arts, Cape Town.
  • 1996 Retrospective exhibition at the South African National Gallery, Cape Town to celebrate the artist’s 70th birthday. Exhibition toured major art centres throughout the country.
  • 1998 Retrospective graphic exhibition at the Rudolf Scharpf Gallery, Willem Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, with daughter Pippa Skotnes.
  • 1999 Solo exhibition, A South African Master, with McCabe Contemporary Art at Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, USA.
  • 2001 Exhibited painted panels at the Goodman Gallery, Sandton.
  • 2001 Exhibition of prints, painted panels and totems at Gallery 3,14, Bergen and Tromso Art Society, Norway.
  • 2004 Exhibition with sculptor Edoardo Villa at the Stellenbosch Art Gallery and at Lanzerac.
  • 2006 Retrospective exhibition, Contemplation, at the Goodman Gallery.
  • 2008 Cecil Skotnes: A private view, curated by Pippa Skotnes and Thomas Cartwright, at the South African National Gallery, Cape Town and the Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg. The installation drew on work from the Skotnes family archive collected over fifty years by Thelma Skotnes.