by Philip Kramer, 2002
Biography:
Born Worcester, Cape Province, South Africa in 1946
Received tuition at the Hugo Naude Art Centre, Worcester at school and majored in painting at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town (Diploma Fine Art, 1969)
Worked as a junior finished artist at van Zijl and Robinson advertising agency in Cape Town
Joined South African Museum in Cape Town as an exhibition designer in 1970
Head of Exhibitions at the South African Museum in Cape Town until April 2002
Full time artist since May 2002
Lives in the Gardens, Cape Town
Solo Exhibitions
1981
South African Association of Arts, Western Cape
1988
South African Association of Arts, Western Cape
Selected Group Exhibitions
1971
Art South Africa Today, Durban
1973
Art South Africa Today, Durban
1975
Art South Africa Today, Durban
New Cape Art, S. A. Association of Arts, W Cape
1976
Group Exhibition, S.A. Association of Arts, W Cape
1977
Festival Art '77, S.A. Association of Arts, W Cape
Selected Works, Wolpe Gallery, Cape Town
1979
Cape Town Biennial
1981
Republic Festival Arts Exhibition, Durban
1982
Cape Town Triennial
1983
South African Contemporary Realism, Pretoria Art Museum
Group Show, Hugo Naude House, Worcester
Group Show, Gallery International, Cape Town
1984
Cape Artists, University of the Orange Free State Art Gallery
Artists' Guild Cape Town Festival Exhibition, S.A.Association of Arts, W. Cape
Masterworks on Paper, South African National Gallery
1985
Works on Paper, S.A.Association of Arts, W. Cape
1986
Visions of the Cape: Three Decades, S.A.Association of Arts
1987
Streets Exhibition, Forum Gallery, Green Point
1990
Critics Choice, S.A. Association of Arts, W. Cape
Different Views: Looking at Landscapes, Primart, Claremont
Second Gala Summer Exhibition, Edrich, Stellenbosch
Group Exhibition, Jacobs Liknaitzky Gallery, Cape Town
1991
Cape Town Triennial
Art 1991, Baxter Gallery of Art
Art-on-the-Box, Primart
1992
Friends' choice, S.A.National Gallery
The Real Thing, Primart, Claremont
Quintessentially South African, Primart, Claremont
1993
Images of the Western Cape, Grahamstown & S.A. National Gallery
Momentum Art, Pretoria Art Museum
Icons, Oude Pastorie Museum, Paarl
Art Salon on the Bay
1994
Art Salon on the Bay
Looking at Table Mountain, Primart
1995
De Kleur van Verandering - Aparte Kunst uit Zuid-Afrika, Grote Kerk te den Haag, Netherlands
Art Salon on the Bay
1996
Kunst uit Zuid-Africa Cultureel Centrum, Mechelen, Belguim (April - May 1996)
Naive and Beyond, Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town
False Bay Coast - Labia Museum
Contemporary South African Art 1985-1995 South African National Gallery Permanent Collection
Art Salon on the Bay
1997
Freedom Flight - Westfries Museum, Hoorn, Netherlands
Art into Architecture - South African National Gallery
Art Salon on the Bay
1998
The Landscape: Unity and Diversity, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival
Art Salon on the Bay
1999
Cape Artists, Group Show - South African Association of Arts, Pretoria and Dorp Street Gallery Stellenbosch
Art Salon on the Bay
2000 -2004
Art Salon on the Bay
Public Collections
Iziko: South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Durban Art Gallery
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth
University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
Corporate Collections
Wooltru, Cape Town
Engen
Retco
Metropolitan Life
Public Works Department
Sanlam
Telkom
Sasol
South African Breweries
Investec
Caltex
Rand Merchant Bank
Perm Bank
Nationale Pers
Old Mutual
Articles about John Kramer
Ogilvie, Grania. Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors
L.Alexander and E.Cohen. 150 South African Paintings, Past and Present
ADA no.8
Fransen Hans. Three Centuries of South African Art
Sasol Art Collection volume 111
Kramer's World Leadership, Volume 10 August/September 1991 by Rose Korber
UCT Alumini Magazine - December 1999 'Profiles: John Kramer'
KapKunst Cape Art 12 portraits of South African artists by Christina Blum published by Murman 2005
South African National Gallery "Current exhibitions' leaflet "Architecture into Art"
Fair Lady - August 1999 'Brother of the more famous David' by Maureen Barnes
Cape Review - July 2001 Conversations in Art with John Kramer' by Sam Woulidge
Property Magazine - September 2004 Kramer vs Kramer by Hilary Prendini Toffoli
Television Slots
KunsKafee (DSTV) - July 2005
Pasella (TV2) July 2005
Selection of works
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