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KABOOM! COMICS IN ART

Land of Black Gold IV
curated by Ingo Clauß, Peter Friese, Guido Boulboullé
Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
2013
Siemon Allen, Martin Arnold, Dara Birnbaum, Peter Blake, William Copley, Reinhard Doubrawa, Erró, Öyvind Fahlström, Gerard Hemsworth, Arturo Herrera, Andy Hope 1930, John Isaacs, Bertrand Lavier, Mark Leckey, Roy Lichtenstein, Michel Majerus, Christian Marclay, Kerry James Marshall, Matt Mullican, Juan Muñoz, Rivane Neuenschwander, Chris Ofili, Joyce Pensato, Raymond Pettibon, Sigmar Polke, William Pope.L, Mel Ramos, Allen Ruppersberg, Francesc Ruiz, Keiichi Tanaami, John Wesley, Sue Williams, Jordan Wolfson
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LABELS AT IZIKO SLAVE LODGE

Labels (Cape)
curated by Paul Tichmann
Iziko Slave Lodge Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
2013
Records

23 KILOGRAMS

Newspapers (Six Weeks)
curated by Bettina Malcomess
West, Den Haag, Netherlands
2013
Siemon Allen, Francis Burger, Donna Kukama and Zen Marie
Records

GRIDS: AN ARCHIVE OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY

Cards, 2005 - 2012
curated by Erin-Lyn Dziedzic
SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2012
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FOUND IN TRANSLATION

Land of Black Gold II
curated by Nat Trotman
Deutsche + Guggenheim, Berlin
2012
Siemon Allen, Alessandro Cesarco, Patty Chang, Keren Cytter, Brendan Fernandes, Sharon Hayes, Matt Keegan, Lisa Oppenheim, O Zhang
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RECORDS

Labels (Cape Town), Santa, Raj, Reggie, Castle
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2011
Records

MAKEBA!

Makeba!, Labels, Map, iPod, Mirian Make Ba
curated by Tumelo Mosaka
Krannert Museum, Champaign, Illinois
2011
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DESIRE - IDEAL NARRATIVES IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN ART

Labels (Venice), Records
curated by Thembinkosi Goniwe
Pavilion of South Africa, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2011
Siemon Allen, Lyndi Sales, Mary Sibande
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DARKROOM: PHOTOGRAPHY AND NEW MEDIA IN SOUTH AFRICA SINCE 1950

Mirian Make Ba
curated by Tosha Grantham
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
2010
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IMAGING SOUTH AFRICA — COLLECTION PROJECTS BY SIEMON ALLEN

Records, Newspapers (World Cup), Stamps V, Makeba!, Screen II
curated by Ashley Kistler
Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonweath University, Richmond VA
2010
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GORDONSCHACHATCOLLECTION — JAF 2010: FEATURED ARTIST

Records
Johannesburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
2010
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IMAGING SOUTH AFRICA: RECORDS|NEWSPAPERS|STAMPS

Tempo, Rave, Better
BANK Gallery, Durban, South Africa
2009
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IMAGING SOUTH AFRICA: RECORDS|NEWSPAPERS|STAMPS

Makeba!
BANK Gallery, Durban, South Africa
2009
Newspapers

IMAGING SOUTH AFRICA: RECORDS|NEWSPAPERS|STAMPS

Newspapers
Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
2009
Stamps

IMAGING SOUTH AFRICA: RECORDS|NEWSPAPERS|STAMPS

Stamps IV
Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
2009
Cards EF

T.ERROR—YOUR FEAR IS AN ETERNAL OBJECT

Cards (Enduring Freedom)
curated by Attila Hetesi, Aniko Erdosi
Hungarian Cultural Center, New York, NY
2009
Siemon Allen, Francois Bucher, Rainer Ganahl, Alia Hassan-Khan, Ayoung Kim, P Lindman, Andrea Schneemeier, Jari Silomaki, Xaviera Simmons, Zsolt Vasarhelyi, Bryan Zanisnik
Birds

DISTURBANCE - CONTEMPORARY ART FROM SCANDINAVIA AND SOUTH AFRICA

The Birds
curated by Maria Fidel Regueros, Clive Kellner
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2008
Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Siemon Allen, Bodil Furu, Veli Grano, Marja Helander, Nicholas Hloba, Astrid Kruse Jensen, Alastair McLachlan, Nandipha Mntambo, Anthea Moys, Mika Ronkainen, Athi Patra-Ruga, Maia Urstad, James Webb
Cards EF Bush

T.ERROR

Cards (Enduring Freedom)
curated by Attila Hetesi, Aniko Erdosi
Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
2008
Siemon Allen, Francois Bucher, Rainer Ganahl, Alia Hassan-Khan, Ayoung Kim, P Lindman, Andrea Schneemeier, Jari Silomaki, Xaviera Simmons, Zsolt Vasarhelyi, Bryan Zanisnik
Birds

MONOMANIA

The Birds
curated by Storm Janse van Rensburg
Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
2008
Siemon Allen, Ryan Arenson, Joanne Bloch, David Koloane, Arie Kuijers
Cards SF

HOPLESSNESS & OTHERWISE

Cards VI
curated by Valerie Imus
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, United States
2008
Siemon Allen, April Banks, Mary Walling Blackburn, BLW, Melissa Day, Michael Light, Nathan Lynch, Alison Pebworth, The Renaming Bush Street Project, Johnathan Santos, Mark Tribe, Visible Collective
Pie Chart Newspapers

LIGHT SHOW

The Birds
curated by Henrietta Hamilton, Robert Fraser & Vaugn Sadie
BANK Gallery, Durban, South Africa
2008
Siemon Allen, Stephen Hobbs, Simon Jaques, Vaugn Sadie, Greg Streak, Bronwen Vaughn-Evans, Jeremy Wafer, James Webb
Pie Chart Newspapers

A FICTION OF AUTHENTICITY—Contemporary Africa Abroad

Newspapers (Post-Dispatch)
curated by Tumelo Mosaka & Shannon Fitzgerald
Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2006
Siemon Allen, Fatma Charfi, Godfried Donkar, Mary Evans, Meschac Gaba, Kendell Geers, Moshekwa Langa, Ingrid Mwangi, Odili Donald Odita, Owusa-Ankomah, Zineb Sedira
Newspapers (Chronicle)

CHRONICLE

Newspapers (Chronicle)
three-person w/ Richard Roth & Royce Howes
curated by Richard Roth
The Lab, New York, NY, USA
2006
Guns

OTHER THAN ART

Guns
curated by Milena Kalinovska
G Fine Art, Washington, DC, USA
2006
Siemon Allen, Allora & Calzadilla, Richard Chartier, Kendall Buster, Carlos Garaicoa, Linda Hesh, Virgil Marti, Ivan Navarro, Olaf Nicolai, Lucy Orta, Jorge Pardo, Elissa S. Levy, Marjetica Potrc, Do-Ho Suh, Atelier Vanlieshout
Cards (detail)

MOMENTA—NADA/MIAMI

Cards V
Momenta Pavillion
curated by Eric Heist
NADA, Art Fair Miami, Miami, FL, USA
2005
Cards Momenta

ENEMY IMAGE

Cards IV
curated by Elena Sorkina
Momenta, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2005
Siemon Allen, Ross Cisneros, Larry Deyab, Yevgeniy Fiks, Alia Hasan_Khan, Jesal Kapadia, Christobal Lehyt, Les Leveque, Basim Magdy, Carlos Motta, The Speculative Archive/, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne
Land Of Black Gold (Edit) The Land of Black Gold (edit)
private viewing
FLAT International, Richmond, VA, USA
2005
Cards (detail)

CARDS

Cards III
solo
KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa
2005
Cards Fusebox

CARDS

Cards II
solo
Fusebox, Washington, DC, USA
2005
Cards Baltimore Cira

PATRIOT

Cards I
curated by Cira Pascual Marquina
Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA
2005
16 Beaver Group, Siemon Allen, Big Noise, Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Carla Herrera-Prats, Ashley Hunt, Amar Kanwar, Pere Portabella
Cards Poster Flat

CARDS

Cards
solo
FLAT International, Richmond, VA, USA
2005
One & Three States Deitch

FREEDOM SALON

One & Three States
curated by Christina Kukielski and Apsara DiQuinzio
Deitch Projects, New York, NY, USA
2004
The Land of Black Gold

REAR VIEW MIRROR

The Land of Black Gold IV
curated by Elizabeth Fisher
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
2004
Siemon Allen, Delia Brown, Matthew Buckingham, Maria Giovanna Casetta, Tacita Dean, Sam Durant, Omer Fast, Joachim Koester, Mark Lewis, Vesna Pavlovic, Silke Schatz, Elizabeth Subrin, Mark Titchner
Nespapers (Post-Dispatch)

A FICTION OF AUTHENTICITY—Contemporary Africa Abroad

Newspapers (Post-Dispatch)
curated by Tumelo Mosaka & Shannon Fitzgerald
Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2004
Siemon Allen, Fatma Charfi, Godfried Donkar, Mary Evans, Meschac Gaba, Kendell Geers, Moshekwa Langa, Ingrid Mwangi, Odili Donald Odita, Owusa-Ankomah, Zineb Sedira
The Land of Black Gold (detail)

NOTES ON RENEWED APPROPRIATIONISMS

The Land of Black Gold II
curated by Lauri Firstenberg
The Project, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2004
Siemon Allen, Wade Guyton, Ellen Harvey, Mathieu Mercier, Seth Price, Anton Vidokle, Kelly Walker, Ruben Ochoa, Michael Queenland
Naglegioen Pop-Agenda

POP-AGENDA

Naglegioen
The Land of Black Gold III
two-person w/ Dominic McGill
FUSEBOX, Washington, DC, USA
2004
Marais/Brand

DEMOCRACY & CHANGE

Marais/Brand (audio installation)
KKNK, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
2004
Newspapers (Register)

NEWSPAPERS

Newspapers (Register)
solo
curated by Cira Pascual Marquina
Drake University - Anderson Gallery, Des Moines, IA, USA
2004
The Land of Black Gold (Miami)

ART POSITIONS—Basel/Miami Beach

The Land of Black Gold I
Fusebox Container
Art Positions, Basel/Miami Beach, Miami, FL, USA
2003
Newspapers (St. Louis)

A FICTION OF AUTHENTICITY—Contemporary Africa Abroad

Newspapers (Post-Dispatch)
curated by Tumelo Mosaka & Shannon Fitzgerald
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MI, USA
2003
Siemon Allen, Fatma Charfi, Godfried Donkar, Mary Evans, Meschac Gaba, Kendell Geers, Moshekwa Langa, Ingrid Mwangi, Odili Donald Odita, Owusa-Ankomah, Zineb Sedira
Newspapers (Post/Times)

THE AMERICAN EFFECT

Newspapers (Post/Times)
curated by Larry Rinder
Whitney Museum, New York, NY, USA
2003
Maganzines ARCO

ARCO

Artifacts
two-person with Kendall Buster
co-curated by Lauri Firstenberg
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2003
Stamps (detail)

INTERSECTIONS—South African Art from the BHP Billiton Collection

Stamps
curated by Kendell Geers
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2002
Newspapers (Post-Times)

POST/TIMES

Newspapers (Post/Times)
solo
FUSEBOX, Washington, DC, USA
2002
Stamp Collection (detail)

CONTEXT & CONCEPTUALISM

Stamps III
three-person w/ Coco Fusco & Melissa Gould
curated by Lauri Firstenberg
Artists Space, New York, NY, USA
2002
Pictures & Words (detail)

CULTURAL CROSSING

Picture & Words (edit)
curated by Paul Brewer
Numark Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
2002
Siemon Allen, Shimon Attie, Chan Chao, Alfredo Jaar, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Mick O'Shea, Michal Rovner, Yukinori Yanagi
Stamp Collection (Renaissance)

DETOURISM

Stamps II
curated by Hamza Walker
Renaissance Society, Chicago, Ill, USA
2001
Siemon Allen, Siegrun Appelt, Rebecca Baron, Johanna Bresnick, Edward Burtynsky, Jeff Carter & Susan Giles, Alnoor Dewashi, Rainer Ganahl, Michelle Keim, Suchan Kinoshita, Miranda Lichtenstein, Corey McCorkle, David Servoss, Christopher Williams
Newspapers (911)

FUSEBOX INAUGURATION EXHIBITION

Newspapers
Fusebox, Washington, DC, USA
2001
Siemon Allen, Jessica Burge, Kendall Buster, Joseph Dumbacher, John Dumbacher, Jason Falchook, Jason Gubbiotti, James Huckenpahler, Warren Isensee, Kristopher Lee, Sylvan Lionni, Vesna Pavlovic, Gary Peterson, Jason Phillips, WC Richardson, Susan Smith-Pinelo, Vincent Szarek, Maria Telleria-Diez, Patrick Wilson
Stamp Collection (Corcoran)

STAMP COLLECTION—Imaging South Africa

Stamps
solo
curated by Paul Brewer
Hemicycle/Corcoran Museum, Washington, DC, USA
2001
Untitled (Boogie Woogie) Woven Tape

AFTER THE DIAGRAM

Marais/Brand
Untitled (Boogie Woogie)
curated by Lauri Firstenberg & Douglas Cooper
White Box, New York, NY, USA
2001
Pictures & Words (detail)

OPEN CIRCUIT

Pictures & Words (edit)
curated by Greg Streak
NSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa
2000
Siemon Allen, Mark Bain, James Beckett, Andries Botha, Kendall Buster, Isaac Carlos, Jose Ferreira, Stephen Hobbs, Robin Rhode, Shamila Samant, Kathryn Smith, Greg Streak, Jeremy Wafer
Gallery (detail)

ANNEX

Gallery
four-person w/ Rosemarie Fiore, Kim Baranowski, Taylor Reese
curated by Chris Gilbert & Paul Brewer
Signal 66, Washington, DC, USA
2000
Zulu For Medics

TRANSLATION / SEDUCTION / DISPLACEMENT
Post-Conceptual and Photographic Work by Artists from South Africa

Screen
Zulu For Medics

curated by Lauri Firstenberg & John Peffer
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, USA
2000
Siemon Allen, Santu Mofokeng, Willem Boshoff, Abrie Fourie, Kim Lieberman, Senzeni Marasela, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Marlaine Tosoni, Joachim Schonfeldt, Rudzani Nemasetoni, Hentie Van Der Merwe
Screen

TRANSLATION / SEDUCTION / DISPLACEMENT
Post-Conceptual and Photographic Work by Artists from South Africa

Screen
Zulu For Medics
curated by Lauri Firstenberg & John Peffer
White Box, New York, NY, USA
2000
Siemon Allen, Santu Mofokeng, Willem Boshoff, Abrie Fourie, Kim Lieberman, Senzeni Marasela, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Marlaine Tosoni, Joachim Schonfeldt, Rudzani Nemasetoni, Hentie Van Der Merwe
House (Gallery 400)

HOUSE

House
solo
Gallery 400, Chicago, IL, USA
1999
As part of Cry of My Birth residency curated by Valerie Cassel:
Julie Mehretu, Moshekwa Langa, Ghada Amer, Fatimah Tuggar, Siemon Allen
Talk (DC)

IMPORT

Talk (audio installation)
Fence
two-person w/ Markus Wirthmann
Goethe Institute Washington, DC, USA
1999
Pictures & Words (Stockholm)

DRöMMAR OCH MOLN (DREAMS & CLOUDS)

Pictures & Words II
curated by Ingemar Arnesson
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
1998
Sandile Zulu, Sue Williamson, Konrad Welz, Johannes Segogela, Jo Ratcliffe, Albert Munyai, Zwelethu Mthetwa, Santu Mofokeng, Ledelle Moe, Hentie van der Merwe, Isolde Krams, William Kentridge , Maureen de Jager, Kevin Brand, Willem Boshoff, Clive van den Berg, Siemon Allen
Pictures & Words

VITA 98

Picture & Words
Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1998
Moshekwa Langa, William Kentrudge, Steven Cohen, Sandile Zulu, Lisa Brice, Siemon Allen
Sell your Body

TAKING STOCK

Sell Your Body (after Reich) (audio installation)
curated by Marco Cianfanelli, Andrea Bürgener, Luan Nel
Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Johannesburg, South Africa
1997
Siemon Allen, Andrea Burgener, Marco Ciananelli, Johnny Golightly, Mary Holland, Aliza Levi, Kim Lieberman, Luan Nel, Farrel Ngilima, Roger Palmer, Joachim Schonfeldt, Minnette Vari, Brian Weber
La Jetee (Graft)

2nd JOHANNESBURG BIENNALE—GRAFT

La Jetée
Graft
curated by Colin Richards
2nd Johannesburg Biennale
curated by Okwui Enwezor
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1997
Siemon Allen, Bridget Baker, Candice Breitz, Pitso Chimzima, Maureen de Jager, Angela Ferreira, Anton Karstel, Moshekwa Langa, Antoinette Murdoch, Johannes Phokela, Sluice, Tracey Rose, Marlaine Tosoni, Sandile Zulu
Compact Discs

UNPLUGGED II

Compact Discs
initiated by Malcolm Payne
Rembrandt Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1997
Malcolm Payne, Kendell Geers, Willem Boshoff, Minnette Vari, Siemon Allen, Aliza Levi, Rhett Martyn, Jeremy Wafer, Clive van den Berg, Peet Pienaar, Bridget Baker... Lisa Brice, Claudette Schreuders... Kevin Brand...
Work (Siren)

HITCHHIKER

Work (audio installation)
curated by Clive Kellner
Generator Art Space, Africus Institute for Contemporary Art, JHB, South Africa
1996
Eugenio Dittborn. Abrie Fourie, Kay Hassan, Moshekwa Langa, Pat Mautloa, Olu Oguibe, Peet Pienaar, Minette Vari, Willen Boshoff, Jimmie Durham, Kendell Geers, Stepen Hobbs, Kim Lieberman, Grant Lee Neuenburg, Robyn Orlin, Tracey Rose, Joachim Schonfeldt, Jeremy Wafer, Siemon Allen
Untitled (Richmond VA)

FLAT INTERNATIONAL

Untitled (Richmond, VA)
solo
FLAT International, Richmond, VA, USA
1996
Elegy

ART SITES 96

Elegy
curated by Claudia Amory
School 33, Baltimore, MD, USA
1996
Conversation

ALLEN / BARRY / WAFER

audio installations
three-person w/ Jeremy Wafer, Thomas Barry
Rembrandt Gallery, Johannesburg South Africa
1995
Silhouettes

ARTISTS INVITE ARTISTS

Silhouettes
Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
1994
Industrial

FORM OF THE FUTURE

Industrial (audio installation)
Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
1994
Quasi Stellar Objects

QUASI-STELLAR OBJECTS

performance
Jam & Co Jazz Club, Durban, South Africa
1994
Thomas Barry, Brendon Bussy, Rhett Martyn, Jay Horsburgh, Siemon Allen, Willem Huysers
Aural Hygiene Prep

AURAL HYGIENE

performance
initiated by Brendon Bussy
FLAT Gallery, Durban, South Africa
1994
FLAT Songs for Nella

SONGS FOR NELLA

audio installation
solo
FLAT Gallery, Durban, South Africa
1994
Internotional

THE FIRST INTERNOTIONAL THEATRE OF COMMUNICATION

Conversation
audience particpation event initiated by Thomas Barry & Jay Horsburgh
FLAT Gallery, Durban, South Africa
1994
Woven VHS Tape

FLAT

six person exhibition
FLAT Gallery, Durban, South Africa
1994
Ledelle Moe, Thomas Barry, Nkosinathi Gumede, Carol Gainer, Siemon Allen, Adrian Hermanides
Swans Performance

SWANS

audience participation performance
FLAT Gallery, Durban, South Africa
1994
Thomas Barry, Jay Horsburgh, Ledelle Moe, Moonlight, Yvette De Bruin, Siemon Allen
Stamps

VITA 93

Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1994
Guy Du Toit, Belinda Blignaut, Allina Ndebele, Neil Goedhals, Cyril Coetzee, Steven Cohen, Wilma Cruise, Alan Alborough, Siemon Allen, Geoffrey Armstrong, Vincent Baloyi, Deborah Bell, Robert Hodgins, William Kentridge, Grant Carlin, Marc Edwards, Leora Farber, Kendell Geers, David Koalane, Avhashoni Mainganye, John McCann, Riana Meissenheimer, CJ Morkel, Sam Nhlengethwa, Derrick Nxumalo, Walter Oltmann, Russel Scott, Johannes Segogela, Paul Stein, Minnette Vari, Jeremy Wafer
Hardy Boys

ICA

two-person w/ Greg Streak
Institute of Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, South Africa
1993
Aeroplanes

MOMENTUM

Aeroplanes
Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
1993
The Collector

VOLKSKAS

The Collector
(Volkskas merit award)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, South Africa
1993