Michael MacGarry

NEWS: Michael MacGarry is the Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2010, with a national touring exhibition opening at the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, in June 2010. His work can also be seen on 1910 - 2010 From Pierneef to Gugulective at the South African National Gallery, Cape Town (16 April - 3 October 2010); Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art at the Ffotogallery in Cardiff, Wales (30 April - 12 June); and Ampersand at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (10 June - 10 October).

CURRENT EXHIBITION

END GAME (touring July 2010 - August 2011)

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS/WORKS

Lagos, Nigeria, 2027 on This is Our Time (10 June - 30 July 2010)
THIS IS YOUR WORLD IN WHICH WE GROW, AND WE WILL GROW TO HATE YOU. (18 February - 19 March 2010)
Recent Works on Self/Not-self (29 February - 25 April 2009)
When enough people start saying the same thing (16 July - 16 August 2008)

BIOGRAPHY

Michael MacGarry is a visual artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He holds a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand. His work investigates the ongoing ramifications of Western imperialism within the African continent. Of particular concern are the mechanics of control and vested interest that inform the journey of culturally symbolic languages and products from the so-called 'centre' to the 'periphery' (and vice-versa) via established global trade routes that define and manipulate the peripheral context through an insidious process of inclusion and exclusion. Select components of his production are authored under the avatar of All Theory. No Practice. Full CV

www.alltheorynopractice.com