MATTHEW HINDLEY
(b. 1974 Cape Town, South Africa)

Matthew Hindley graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town in 2002; where he was awarded the Michaelis Prize.

As one of the countries' most recognised younger painters, Hindley’s intense, poetic and delving artworks have featured in various critical and seminal South African exhibitions. His most recent solo painting presentation The Divided Self was held at Everard Read Cape Town, in October 2018.

In addition, he has presented at the world-renowned Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, Michigan (2012) and the Kochi Muziris Biennale, India (2012). In 2014 he worked on a series of paintings inspired by the mythological African tales of South African writer Don Mattera, for a book published by Rhodeworks, in Berlin, Germany.

In 2015 his artwork was part of the imago mundi, Benetton Collection at the Venice Biennale, and his major public sculpture Speak Naturally and Continuously was installed above the entrance of the South African National Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa. This artwork was rebuilt in late 2018/early 2019 and reopened to the general public interaction May 2019.

EDUCATION

2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2023
Memoryscapes, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

2021
Upcoming, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa 
Double Rainbow, Knysna Fine Arts, South Africa

2019
The Brush Itself Incites, Vault Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 

2018
The Divided Self, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
Survey of Risk, David Krut, Johannesburg, South Africa

2015
Resurrection (Der Brennende Wald), Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
The Five Magic Pebbles & other stories (by Don Mattera), David Krut Projects, Cape Town, South Africa

2013
Twilight of the Idols, Biksady Galeria, Budapest, Hungary

2012
One Pearl of Great Price, VOLTA8, Basel, Switzerland

2011
The Solo Project, Basel, Switzerland
 An Everlasting Once , Brundyn+, Cape Town, South Africa

2009
Like, like, like, like a Circus , Brundyn+ Wembley Project Space, Cape Town, South Africa
Black Out , Brundyn+, Cape Town, South Africa

2007
Private Vernissage (with Kromschröder & Pfannenschmidt), Berlin, Germany

2006
Before My Time, 34Long, Cape Town, South Africa

2005
Speak Naturally & Continuously , Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2004
Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa
Surrender , Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
Offering, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa
Summer 2021, Everard Read, London, UK

2020
IMAGO, Everad Read, Franschhoek, South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa 
TINY2020, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2019
Filling in the Gaps, Iziko South Africa National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Self, Gallery at Glen Carlou, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Winter, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2018
Summer, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2017  
FNB JOBURG Art Fair, Everard Read /CIRCA Booth, Johannesburg, South Africa
Winter Collection, CIRCA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
 Turbine Art Fair with 50ty/50ty, Johannesburg, South Africa

2016
365 Days of Projects & Collaborations, David Krut, Johannesburg, South Africa
AKAA Art Fair, with Everard Read, Paris, France
FNB JOBURG Art Fair, David Krut Projects (DKP), Johannesburg, South Africa
Inch x Inch, David Krut Projects (DKP) Johannesburg, South Africa
CAPE TOWN ART FAIR, Everard Read/ CIRCA Gallery Booth, Cape Town, South Africa

2015
Homage,  Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
 Empire,  Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
Imago Mundi - Map of New Art, Benetton Collection, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice Biennale, Italy 

2014
TWENTY: Contemporary Art From South Africa , Turchin, Centre for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University,  North Carolina / Traveling to the Beijing Biennale, China in 2015

2013
Material/Representation , Brundyn+, Cape Town, South Africa

2012
Collateral Segment - BRICS , Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
Global Groove , Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan, USA

2010
Spier Contemporary Biennial, Cape Town, South Africa

2009
Dada South , South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2007
South African Art , Danubiana Art Museum , Bratislava, Hungary

2005
Videobrazil, WWWF Anthology Performance, Brazil

2004
A Decade of Democracy: Witnessing South Africa , National Center for African American Arts, Boston, USA

2003
On the road again , Engler & Piper Projekte, Berlin, Germany
 MTN New Contemporaries, Museumafrica, Johannesburg, South Africa

2002
In no particular order (vol.1) , 16th Recontres Video Art Plastique, Normandy, France

2001
World Wide Video festival, Arti et Amicae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

AWARDS

2005 Winner of the permanent public art installation competition, South African National Gallery

2002 Michaelis Prize, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa

2002 Simon Gershin prize, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa

1994 Irma Stern prize, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Vass László Collection, Veszprém, Hungary

IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

University of Cape Town Collection, Cape Town, South Africa

PUBLICATIONS 

2014

Artwork for The Five Magic Pebbles, and other stories written by Don Mattera, published by Rhodeworks, Berlin

2004 
A Decade of Democracy: South African Art 1994-2004, edited by Emma Bedford, published by the Iziko Museums of Cape Town, South African National Gallery