Curriculum Vitae
Natasha Norman (b. 1982) currently lives and works in Cape Town.
Education
2011 Masters in Fine Arts at UCT: Further Fictions in Print
2005 BA Fine Arts (Printmedia) at UCT
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2009 & 2010 KW Johnstone Research Scholarship
2009 & 2010 Ernst and Ethel Erikson Trust Bursary, MacIver Scholarship, 2009 Jules Kramer Travel Scholarship
2008 Absa L’atelier Finalist
2007 Sasol New Signatures Finalist
2006 Absa L’atelier Finalist
ARTIST RESIDENCIES AND PROJECT INVOLVEMENT
2023/2024 Kamishibai Project, publication and traveling exhibition conceived by Mokuhanga Magic collective, Belgium.
2023 Podcast presenter/interviewer for Latitude Lifestyle Art Podcast.
2023 Artsfluence Human Rights Festival, University of KwaZulu-Natal.
2021 The Printing Girls Relief Print Exchange, Johannesburg.
2021 South Atlantic Press, two woodblock print publications, Cape Town.
2020 South Atlantic Press. Artist collaborative print publishing, Cape Town.
2017 Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory. Lake Kawaguchi Artist-in-Residence, Mokuhanga Advanced Training, Japan.
2015 Artist Proof Studios Artist-in-Residence, print collaboration/co-publication, Johannesburg.
2014 Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory. Lake Kawaguchi Artist-in-Residence, Mokuhanga Basic Training, Japan.
2013 Coordinator and participant in international symposia Between the Lines in Cape Town, Braunschweig and Berlin. Project funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the context of The German-South African Year of Science 2012/2013.
2010 Mixtape Mobile Cinema for Grahamstown Art Festival, South Africa
2009-2012 Editions manager for ArtThrob Contemporary Arts Journal’s fine art print portfolio
2009 Curator of exhibition Proof of Life at VANSA Project Space, Cape Town. 2007–2010 Editorial Assistant to ArtThrob online Contemporary Arts Journal
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2023 International Original Print Exhibition, The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London, England.
2023 25 Years | 25 Prints, Artvark Gallery, Kalk Bay, Cape Town.
2023 Pandemic|Praxis|Pedagogy: Artworks in Progress, A Michaelis School of Fine Art staff exhibition, Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town.
2023 Reverb 23 | Abstract Resonances // Contemporary Voices, Latitudes Online.
2022 Kolekcja Mini Print Cantabria w Lublinie, UMCS University Art Gallery - University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin, Poland.
2022 Wood, Paper, Ink at the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St Lawrence University, NY.
2022 Mini Print Cantabria, Edition V in Santander, Spain.
2022 A Sense of Place, Latitudes Online curated by The Printing Girls.
2022 8th International Lithographic Symposium, Tidaholm, Sweden.
2022 Between Worlds, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York.
2022 Days of Being Wild, Cavalli Gallery, Stellenbosch, Cape Town.
2021 LANDSCAPE, Spin Street Gallery, Cape Town.
2021 Collection Mini Print Cantabria, La Mer et les Phares à Bordeaux, Cervantes Institute, Bordeaux, France.
2021 At The Table, The Printing Girls Cape Town, Spin Street Gallery, Cape Town.
2021 New Girls on the Block, The Printing Girls, Association for the Arts, Pretoria.
2020 Positive Escape, The Printing Girls, Art Room, Parkhurst, Johannesburg.
2020 Light from Dark, Spin Street Gallery, Cape Town.
2019 Regarding Winter, Salon91 Gallery, Cape Town.
2019 Nano 1.3. Barnard Gallery, Cape Town.
2019 The Distance from Afar, Group exhibition at Glen Carlou wine estate in association with Salon91 Gallery.
2019 Crumbling Contours, Craft+Graft Project Space in collaboration with Artist Proof Cape Town.
2019 The Printer’s Painting, Artist Proof Gallery, Cape Town.
2019 Conversations, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town.
2019 Cape Town Art Fair, Salon91 Gallery Booth.
2018 Folklore, Salon91 Gallery, Cape Town.
2018 IMPACT 10 Biennial, Bienal Mini Print: El Mar y los Faros, Eduardo Sanz Collection, Santander, Spain.
2018 Nano 1.2. Barnard Gallery, Cape Town.
2018 Endless, 4 women exhibition, Salon 91 Gallery, Cape Town.
2018 ‘SEE ART: Contemporary Abstract’ at Gallery 2, Johannesburg. Curated by Derek Zeitsman.
2018 ‘February Edition’ at CfSHE Gallery, Tokyo
2018 Cape Town Art Fair, SA Print Gallery Booth
2018/2017 MI-LAB AIR Program Participants Exhibition: Artists from Advanced Program at CfSHE Gallery, Tokyo
2017 Trees Make Forests, end of year group exhibition, Salon 91 Gallery, Cape Town.
2017 Field, group exhibition, Salon 91 Gallery, Cape Town.
2017 Searching for Mokuhanga Light: Globalizing Japanese Woodblock Printmaking,Hawaii. Special Exhibition for Third International Mokuhanga Conference. Sept-Oct. 2017 Presenting Artists at the Centre for the Science of Human Endeavour, Tokyo, Japan.
2016 Nano, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town.
2015 However, ArtHub Gallery, London, UK.
2015 Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg at Salon 91 booth.
2015 ‘Death Speaks’ 6 Spin Street, Cape Town, curated exhibition.
2014 Golden Haze, group exhibition at Salon 91 Gallery, Cape Town.
2013 Multiplied Christies Print Fair, London, UK with Slate Projects.
2013 Between the Lines at Michaelis Galleries (group show as part of symposium) 2012 Masters Grad Show at Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town.
2011 Further Fictions (solo exhibition) at Commune 1 Gallery, Cape Town.
2011 Judgement Pending at AVA Gallery, Cape Town.
2010 Tretchikoff and Me at Salon 91 Gallery, Cape Town.
2010 This Is Not Final at Michaelis Gallery and Wits Substation, Johannesburg. 2008 Absa Atelier Finalists Exhibition, Johannesburg
2007 The Look of Love (solo exhibition) at Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town.
2007 Contusion at Irma Stern Museum, University of Cape Town.
2007 Sasol New Signatures Finalists’ exhibition in Pretoria
2006 Absa Atelier Finalists Exhibition, Johannesburg
2006 Krisp at Belville Arts Society, Cape Town.
2005 Michaelis Graduate Exhibition
2004 Black Box at African Studies Gallery, University of Cape Town.
2003 YDEsire at Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015 Thuli Gamedze’s review: Whose ‘Death Speaks’? in ArtThrob, online.
2012 Michaelis Masters Graduate Catalogue
2012 ‘Natasha Norman at Commune 1’ by Renee Holleman in ArtThrob Jan, 2012 2008 ABSA Atelier Finalists Catalogue
2008 Erika Asgeirsson’s article in Cafe Abroad March 2008:p8
2007 ‘Subjective experience’ by Chris Thurman in The Weekender Nov 3-4 2007: p14
2005 Michaelis Graduate Catalogue
COLLECTIONS
Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St Lawrence University, USA acquired 2023
The One and Only Hotel, Cape Town, acquired 2022.
Art Bank South Africa, acquired 2020.
Art Gazette, London and South Africa, acquired 2021.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, acquired 2019.
Eduardo Sanz Collection, Santander, Spain, donated 2018.
MI-Lab, CfSHE: Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory, Tokyo, donated 2017. MI-Lab, CfSHE: Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory, Tokyo, donated 2014. Michaelis School of Fine Art, Print collection, donated 2011.
The University of Cape Town, Public Art Collection, acquired 2005.
SOCIETIES AND AFFLIATIONS
The Mokuhanga Sisters, International Artist Group, since 2022The Printing Girls, South African Woman’s Print Art Group, since 2020
Mokuhanga Kai, Society of South African Mokuhanga practitioners, founding member 2019 Foundwork, Online Artist Platform, since 2018
VANSA, Visual Arts Network of South Africa, since 2014
Golden Key Society Membership, since 2003