Zander blom biography sample
This October, South African artist Zander Blom's recent paintings were shown by Stevenson Gallery at Frieze London.
Blom makes 'modern art for dinosaurs',5 taking the pristine monochromatic shapes that epitomised modernism and grafting them with fragmented multicoloured.!
Blom was born in 1982 in Pretoria, and lives in Cape Town.
Solo shows include Polaris and Ursa Minor at the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean in Port Louis, Mauritius (2017); Monochrome works and New Works at Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (2021; 2017; 2015); Place and Space at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2011-12); The Black Hole Universe at Galerie van der Mieden in Antwerp and 5x6x9, Berlin (2010); in addition to Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg (2010-24).
Monochrome Paintings, his second solo exhibition in New York, took place at signs and symbols (2022).
Group shows include Full House: Fede Arthouse and Under Projects, blank projects (2023); We Paint! at Beaux-Arts de Paris (2022); Mapping Worlds at the Norval Foundation, Cape Town (2019); Assessing Abstraction at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2018); Gestalt & Becoming at Feldbusch Wiesner Rudol
