BIOGRAPHY
NEILL WRIGHT
Neill Wright is a multidisciplinary artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He explores various mediums, such as sculpture, printmaking and painting as modes of expression, drawing inspiration from a variety of sources within his lived experience. The bold, multi-layered and colourful work speaks to a curiosity about and affection for the natural world while the geographically impossible mashups hint at the chaos of everyday life. Abstract and representational elements co-exist in a seductive yet menacing way suggestive of both the exultation and terror present in the unknown and un-explored.
In 2007 Neill graduated with distinction to the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (Honours), at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town where he was co-awarded the Simon Gerson Prize for an outstanding body of work. In 2009 he graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, majoring in printmaking. In 2013 Wright was named one of the 10 emerging South African artists to watch by The Times, and he has exhibited in a number of group and solo exhibitions as well as at numerous South African and International Art fairs. His work is housed in both corporate and private collections throughout the world.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 I Forget Where We Were, District Gallery, Cleveland, USA
2020 The Only Way Out Is Through, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
To Anywhere and Nowhere, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2018 Blizzard Head, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016 Wilderness, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015 The Atrophy and the Ecstasy, Sulger-Buel Lovell, Cape Town
2013 The Hilarity of Reality, Circa on Jellicoe, Johannesburg
Spectacular but Empty, The Lovell Gallery, Cape Town
2011 Protect Your Roots, Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection, Cape Town
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Spring, group show, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa
Things I’d like to remember, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2021 Spring Show, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
2020 TINY2020, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
US, Everard Read, online exhibition, UK & South Africa
2019 Summer, Everard Read, London, UK
2017 Spectrum, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
Off the wall: A group sculpture exhibition, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015 Bronze Steel Stone, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
2014 Liberation un(masked), Sulger-Buel Lovell, London, UK
2013-14 Summer of Sculpture, Mount Nelson Hotel, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa
2013 Whack! Gallery In Toto, Johannesburg, South Africa
2011 Summer Salon, Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection, Cape Town, South Africa
TLG Competition Winners, The Lovell Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Winter Salon, Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection, Cape Town, South Africa
2010 Out Of Africa, Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection, Cape Town, South Africa
SELECTED ART FAIRS
2016 FNB Joburg Art Fair, Everard Read booth
Cape Town Art Fair, CTICC, Cape Town
2015 Turbine Art Fair, Sulger-Buel Lovell, Johannesburg
2014 FNB Joburg Art Fair, Lovell Urban booth, Johannesburg
Turbine Art Fair, Lovell Contemporary, Johannesburg
Cape Town Art Fair, Salon91 Contemporary, Cape Town
2013 Art For Me, Lovell Gallery, Cape Town
Sydney Contemporary, Australia
FNB Joburg Art Fair, Lovell Gallery booth, Johannesburg
Turbine Hall Art fair, Lovell Gallery, Johannesburg
Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Grahamstown
2012 FNB Joburg Art Fair, Everard Read booth, Johannes