RICKY AYANDA DYALOYI

(b. 1974 Gugulethu, Cape Town)

From a young age, Ricky Dyaloyi felt inspired to draw and sketch the vibrant community and life that surrounded him in the township. His creativity and love for the arts was encouraged and nurtured by his parents during his adolescent years and by 1988, at age fourteen, he was attending part-time art classes at CAP (Community Arts Project). From this training he was propelled to participate in workshops and exhibitions.

Dyaloyi’s imagery and thematic evolved around the time of South Africa’s first democratic elections – a momentous period in South Africa’s history where there was an influx of discourse and exchange between all South African artists in the country. His oeuvre therefore fits into a broader genre of South African painting, which has its roots in the Thupelo programme -a workshop that encouraged artistic growth by exchanging ideas, experiences, techniques and disciplines within a shared space or studio. The programme started in the 1980s in Johannesburg and later was brought to Cape Town in the 1990s.

Dyaloyi’s style of painting reflects ordinary citizens going about their daily lives, rendered in heightened colours to reveal the effervescent quality of the community and people with whom he lives. The artist pays special attention to the South African context and hopes to highlight “… the black people’s level of existence”. With an uncanny determination, Dyaloyi aims to unravel the simple mysteries of the human condition through his medium of choice - oil paint.

His 2015 exhibition Shaman of the Everyday at the Everard Read, Cape Town, continued this pertinent exploration into human existence and relationships, but delved further, focusing on interior spaces, whilst exploring personal and shared environments.

Everard Read presented Dyaloyi's work at the 2015 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London and his work was spotlighted at the same fair in 2018 by Spier Arts Trust.

Everard Read published a monograph on Dyaloyi in 2016 and an essay on the artist is included in Ashraf Jamal's In The World: Essays on Contemporary South African Art, published in 2017.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022        Ukuphuma kwe langa (Light Ushering in the Dawn of a New Day), Everard Read, London, UK

2021        ISIPHAMBUKA SENDLELA (CROSSROADS),  Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

2020       Limits of our Longing, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2018      A Paradox of Our Times, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2015      Shaman of the Everyday, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2012      Noma Kanjani, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa

2011      Isifuba Siphandle, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2009      Recent works, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2006      Solo exhibition, Empathy Hollard, Johannesburg, South Africa

2005      Solo exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2003      New Works, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2001      A selection of works, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

1998      Solo exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021      In Conversation, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2020     The Portrait Show, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

             IMAGO, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

             Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

             Journeys of the Mind, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

2019     Winter, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

             Southern Aspect, Everard Read, London, United Kingdom

2018      Winter, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

              Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read Cape Town, South Africa

              Material Gains, Stellenbosch University Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa

2016      Opening exhibition, Everard Read, London, United Kingdom

              Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read Cape Town, South Africa

2015      1:54 African Art Fair, with Everard Read Johannesburg, London, United Kingdom

              Winter, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

              EMPIRE, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2014      Summer Season, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

              The City, Imibala Gallery in association with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

              Winter show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2013      100, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

              Possessed, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2012      Winter Show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

              Small Works, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2011      15^th Anniversary, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

              Isibane Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa

2010      Khumalo, Mzimba, Dyaloyi, three man show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

              View from the South, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2009      Sex, Power, Money, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

              Dyaloyi & Sekete, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

              The City, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2006      Small works, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2004      Identity, The ID of South African Artist, Van den Ende Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands

              10 - Celebrating ten years of Democracy, Iziko SA National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

              C.A.P., Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

              Zabalaza, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

1996      Sicula sixhentsa xa sisonke (we sing and dance together), curated by Harris Wilster,
              traveling exhibition, North America

1990      Art from South Africa, curated by David Elliot, Oxford Museum of Modern Art,
             Oxford, UK

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Cape Grace Hotel Cape Town, South Africa
Hillard art collection Cape Town, South Africa 
Santam art collection Cape Town, South Africa
Sanlam art collection Cape Town, South Africa
South African National Art gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Nandos Art collection South Africa and the United Kingdom
Van den Ende collection, Netherlands