EVERARD READ SUMMER EXHIBITION – The Other’s Warmth, Everard Read Cape Town
Collide exhibition, Featherstone Center for the Arts, Martha’s Vineyard, USA
I, Ruby: vol 1. exhibition at Ruby Projects, Houston Texas, USA
Sculpture on the Cliffs exhibition at Hermanus Fyn Arts Festival, South Africa
JVR Auction, Cape Town
INDEX artist at RMB Latitudes Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
K4 exhibition at KKNK from 1 – 9 April 2023
Amalgam exhibition at World Art Gallery from 2 – 23 February 2023
Seeds of the fig exhibition at Twee Gezellen Wine Farm, curated by Reservoir from 26 November 2022 to 29 April 2023
SEDUCTION | Group Exhibition from 8 to 31 December 2022
RESHAPE 22 for Latitudes Online from 14 September to 14 October 2022
NFT Auction at SA Innovation Summit on 28 September 2022
SPRING | A Group Show at Everard Read Franschoek from 10 to 24 September 2022
Art in the Auditorium for Hermanus Fyn Arts Festival from 10 to 19 June 2022
JVR Auction Auction June 2022
Art in the Auditorium at Hermanus Fyn Arts Festival 10 to 19 June 2022
Interferences exhibition at Brutal Curation Gallery, Cape Town in February 2022
Motion Bandits exhibition at Gallery One11, Cape Town in October 2021
A Medley of Moods in Miniature exhibition curated by Dineke van Der Walt, July 2021 as part of the Klein Karoo Virtual Gallery.
Cash n Carry at Brutal Curation Gallery, Cape Town in March 2021
JVR Art Auction from 13 to 16 October 2020
Site Visit an online exhibition by L’Air Arts in Paris from October 2020
Embodying Hir-Self exhibition for Latitudes Art Fair in August 2020
Phantasmagoria: Winter Online Exhibition by Lizamore & Associates Contemporary Art Gallery from June to August 2020
SculptX Fair in Johannesburg in September 2019
Something Other – A diversion in the career of the artist at No End Contemporary from 4 to 17 July 2019
Sculpture on the Cliffs at Hermanus Fyn Arts Festival from 7 June 2019 to June 2020
Public sculpture at The Cosmopolitan in Maboneng, Johannesburg from 2019 to present
L’Air Arts Open studio exhibition at FIAP in Paris on 27 October 2018
‘A very important thought’ exhibition at No End Contemporary from 23 August to 22 September 2018
TACIT exhibition at Oliewenhuis Museum (Bloemfontein) from 10 July to 26 August 2018
American Express Winter Sculpture Fair 2018 at Nirox Sculpture Park
For NOT A SINGLE STORY, Van Wyk has sculpted Foot in the Door, a large fibreglass work, which is in the poplar forest. She created painted sculpture bases that take the shape of a traditional tiered wedding cake. This references the symbol of the “woman as dessert”. The sculpture bases furthermore allude to the notion that women are often portrayed as one dimensional objects to be consumed, and continue to be regarded as sexualised commodities objectified by the media for male consumption.
I Buy Quality / Yo Compro Calidad at Matadero Madrid from 16 June to 2 July 2017
Sophia van Wyk created the Madrid Sky series while participating at the artist residency El Ranchito Matadero Madrid (Spain) awarded and funded by The Eduardo Villa Trust from 8 May to 18 June 2017.
Van Wyk continued making bronze sculptures at Capa Escultura Foundry in Madrid, following her residency at The Falconer Foundry in South Africa. The Madrid Sky series and her work made at The Falconer Foundry features both abstract fabric and bronze sculptures as well as film.
Van Wyk creates a visual memory bank with cloud shapes coded as timestamps for significant contemporary social issues including personal dates, events and memories. Van Wyk captures shapes of moving clouds through photographs, film and sketches then archives it through her art.
She ‘modifies’ the memory or event through interpreting the form or incorporating it with other “memory” clouds. With her sculptures and film she changes subjectively positive, neutral and negative memories and significant social events through her interpretation, interaction and merging of ‘memory clouds’ to create new narratives. Through her artworks she creates subversive biomorphic forms that becomes a metaphor for ‘new meaning and knowledge’ through the unfamiliar.
Van Wyk specifically work from liminal, morphing and moving forms that refer to an evolving state of flux and change. Ironically the sculptural shapes that she creates are solid and static.
Jan Celliers art exhibition from 14 to 19 May 2018
Art & Design Saturday at TMRW Gallery part of Keys Art Mile from 17 April to 8 May 2018
And we heard the colours sound: an abstract group exhibition at Lizamore Gallery from 1 February to 24 February 2018
Tectonic at Hazard Gallery from 18 November 2017 to 7 January 2018
35 Years: Trailblazers at Lizamore & Associates from 31 August to 23 September 2017
All The Voices, No End Contemporary at Fried Contemporary Gallery from 31 August to 23 September 2017
Urban Axis exhibition at PS Art Space Perth, Australia from 17 June to 22 July 2017
Greed Gone Mad and Fear Got Bought at Absa Gallery ( Jhb) 10 July to 4 August 2017
Greed Gone Mad and Fear Got Bought at Klein Karoo National Arts Festival in Oudtshoorn April 2017
(Don’t) Look Back exhibition at Gallery Momo Cape Town 23 March to 22 April 2017
TACIT traveling exhibition at Pretoria Art Museum in 2017 as well as UWC Gallery (Potchefstroom) & Humphrey’s Art Gallery (Kimberley) 2016
FNB Johannesburg Art Fair 2016 with Hazard Gallery
Turbine Art Fair 2016 with No End Contemporary (Johannesburg)
Public sculpture at The Cosmopolitan in Maboneng, Johannesburg from June 2016
Empty Space: An Overview of KKNK 2016 at ABSA Gallery (Johannesburg) from 8 – 27 May 2016
In the midst of things by Curated by_Collective at Klein Karoo National Art festival in Oudtshoorn from 24 – 30 March 2016
Barclays L’Atelier exhibition at Absa Gallery (Johannesburg) 15 July to 28 August 2015
Progeny at Fried Contemporary Gallery (Pretoria) 25 April to 23 May 2015