RINA STUTZER

(South Africa)

BIOGRAPHY

Rina Stutzer (1976) completed her BAFA at the University of Pretoria in 1999 and went on to complete her MAFA at the same university in 2007. After graduation, she started lecturing part-time in Painting and Drawing at The School of Arts (UP). She works both as full-time artist, focusing on her own creative production and as a resident artist for Dionysus Sculpture Works.

Stutzer has achieved several accolades; including The Bettie Cilliers-Barnard Bursary from the University of Pretoria for excellence in painting (1999), the SASOL New Signatures Art Competition: People’s Choice Award (1999), and the first prize in the Ekurhuleni Fine Arts Award Competition (2007). She achieved a distinction in Painting for her Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Pretoria. In 2012, Stutzer was awarded the Rendezvous: Focus Painting bursary. Apart from the two sojourns to the Cité Internationale des Arts in 2013 and 2022, she was invited in 2016 to attend a residency at the Nirox Sculpture Park in the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage site. In the same year, her work “Pinned Transitory II/Pinned in Transition II” was exhibited at “Reporting from the Front”, Biennale Architettura, in the South African Pavilion, in Venice, Italy.

In 2021 Stutzer was invited to take part in the AIR program and residency at Tswalu, Northern Cape, which was followed by an exhibition at Everard Read gallery. She has participated in several group and solo exhibitions since 2000 in South Africa, as well as in as in Great Britain, France, Australia, India, Italy, Switzerland and in the Netherlands.
Stutzer holds a studio space within the Dionysus Sculpture Works collective where she prints, paints and sculpts.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
2023 Shifting Focus, Student Gallery at the University of Pretoria
         Annual members’ exhibition, Association of Arts, Pretoria
2022 A Parallel World of Slowness and Light (after Tswalu), solo, Everard Read, Johannesburg
         Things I’d like to remember, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2021 Transitory Terrain, South African women group show, Everard Read, London
         Oasis, Everard Read, Cape Town
         FNB Joburg Art Fair, Everard Read, Johannesburg
         AIR Program (Artist in Residency) at Tswalu Kalahari Reserve (6 months)
         Winter show, Everard read, Chelsea, London
         Initiated The Curious Little Press print studio at the DSW Studio and Foundry, Pretoria, Gauteng
         Spring show, Everard Read, Johannesburg
2020 PINK, Joburg Art Fair, Everard Read, Johannesburg
         Still Alive, Everard Read, Cape Town & Joburg & London
         Tiny 2020, Everard Read, Johannesburg
2019 Birds, group exhibition, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery + Clay Museum, Cape Town
         Art Angels charity art auction, Ellerman House, Cape Town
         Holderstebolder, public commission sculpture installation, under team DSW, Noida,
         Uttar Pradesh, India
         Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2018 There is no Time like the Present, public commission with team DSW, Mall of Africa,
         Waterfall City, Midrand
         FNB Joburg Art Fair, with Everard Read, Johannesburg
        Saronsberg Second Take, group exhibition, Tulbagh
        A Beautiful Mind Charity Auction, Diep in die Berg, Pretoria
        Winter, group exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town
        Tacit, group exhibition of DSW studio affiliated artists, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein
        In the Forests of the Night, group exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg
        Annual members’ exhibition, Association of Arts, Pretoria
2017 Bronze, Steel and Stone, group exhibition, Everard Read, London
        Winter, group exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town
        Tacit, group exhibition of DSW studio affiliated artists, Pretoria Art Museum Art
        Angels Africa, St Martin’s Lane, London
2016 Reporting from the Front - Biennale Architettura 2016, South African Pavilion, Venice, Italy
         Gallery launch, group exhibition, Everard Read, London
         Merely This and Nothing More, solo exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg
         Dionysus’s Feast, sound sculpture collaboration, Tacit, NWU Gallery, Potchefstroom; Johannesburg; William Humphreys                Art Gallery, Kimberley  
        Cool Capital Saadjies Project, Venice/Pretoria/Richmond/Potchefstroom/Stellenbosch
        FNB Johannesburg Art Fair, Everard Read, Johannesburg
        Art Angels art auction, Ellerman House, Cape Town
2015 Map of the New Art, group exhibition, Imago Mundi, Luciano Bennetton Collection, Isola di
         San Giorgio Maggiore, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy
         Bronze, Steel and Stone, group exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg
         Monologue, curated by Meredith Randall, Aardklop National Arts festival, Potchefstroom
         outoftheCUBE’s SA Art Print exhibition
         20th Grenchen Print Triennial, Switzerland
2014 Pinned Transitory, installation, Nirox Winter Fair, Nirox Sculpture Park, Gauteng
         Still, Johans Borman Fine Art, Cape Town
         What Lies Beneath, Equus Gallery, Cavalli Estate, Franschhoek
         Guild International Design Fair, Look Out, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town
         Sway, permanent installation, Everard Read, Johannesburg
         Dionysus Sculpture Works’ biannual exhibition, Grande Provence,
         Franschhoek Nature, Sophie Lalonde Art, Gabarone, Botswana
         Cool Capital DIY Biennale, public art exhibition, Pretoria
         Morfform, Fried gallery, Pretoria
         Syncopation, DSW group show, Aardklop, Potchefstroom
         Art Angels Auction, Ellerman House, Cape Town
2013 Sydney Art Fair, with Everard Read, Australia
         Joburg Art Fair, with Everard Read, Johannesburg
         Centenary, group exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg
         Vaspen / Pegdown, two person show, IS Art, Franschhoek
         South Africa, group show, Gallery Vivienne, Paris, France
         Tom Waits for No Man, group show (curated by Gordon Fraud), University of Johannesburg, Grande Provence & KKNK
         Hiernamaals/Hereafter, Woordfees, Slee Gallery, Stellenbosch
         Dionysus Sculpture Works biannual exhibition, Arts Association, Pretoria
         Engage, World Art Day group show, Arts Association, Pretoria
         WWF Auction, Circa, Johannesburg
         Art Angels auction, Ellerman House, Cape Town
2012 For the Time Being, solo exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg
         Art Fair India, with Everard Read, Delhi
         Joburg Art Fair, with Everard Read Johannesburg
         Designs of Nature, Fried Contemporary group show, KKNK, Oudtshoorn
         Winter exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg
         Art Angels Auction, Ellerman House, Cape Town
2011 Die Opbou van Afbreek, Aardklop, North-West University Gallery, Potchefstroom (solo)
         20 Stellenbosch: Two Decades of South African Sculpture, A Public Sculpture
         Exhibition, Stellenbosch
         Friend – Request – Sent, The Cube, Bussum, Amsterdam
         Dislodge/Loswikkel, University of Johannesburg Gallery (two person exhibition)
         Rendezvous: Focus Painting, Michaelis Gallery, Oliewenhuis Art Museum; University of
         Johannesburg Gallery; North-West University Gallery
         Horse, Everard Read, Johannesburg
         Designs of Nature, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria
         Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg (Everard Read)
         Landscape, Oude Libertas, Stellenbosch
2010 An Accumulation of Change, solo exhibition, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
         Joburg Art Fair, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
2009 Collaboration, Reservoir Gallery, Oliewenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein
         Joburg Art Fair, with Rooke Gallery, Johannesburg
2008 Visuality/Commentary, Visual Arts Centenary Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum
2007 Medium Re-pulse, solo exhibition, University of Pretoria
        Contemporary Visions of Southern Africa, Pretoria Art Museum

RESIDENCIES
2013 Nirox Foundation and Sculpture Park, Cradle of Mankind, Gauteng (October)
        Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (July)
2019 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (December)
2021 Tswalu, AIR program, Northern Cape, South Africa 2022 Angus Taylor & Rina Stutuzer- Tswalu, Everard Read, Johannesburg AWARDS
1996 - 1999 University of Pretoria, Fine Arts Department – top student
1999 Bettie Cilliers-Barnard Bursary - painting excellence award
        New Signatures Art Competition - People’s Choice Award
2007 MA(FA) degree, painting major – distinction in painting
         Ekurhuleni National Fine Arts Award Competition - first prize
2012 Rendezvous Focus Painting Competition, a Bettie Cilliers-Barnard Bursary –
        first prize (award includes a working residency in France in 2013)
2014 Awarded overall Best Artistic Design for 3CR12 Stainless Steel construction
        from SASDA for the permanent installation ‘Sway’ at Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg

TEACHING
2000-11 Part-time lecturer at the University of Pretoria for the Fine Art and Design Faculty
2019 Part-time lecturer at the University of Pretoria for the School of Arts (Visual Studies)
2009-19 Co-owner, manager and studio artist at Dionysus Sculpture International (DSI)
2020 Digital Image Making & Transitive Drawing - practical modules, School of Arts, University of Pretoria
Digital Image Making module, Practical class (online), Second Years, School of Arts, University of Pretoria

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Pretoria Art Museum
University of Pretoria
Spoornet
Ellerman House collection
Saronsberg Fine Art Collection
South African Embassy in Nigeria
Webber Wentzel Bowens Attorneys
Frank and Lizelle Kilbourn Collection
Atterbury Group
Attacq Group