Biography

 

Haroon Gunn-Salie (Cape Town, South Africa, 1989) is an artist and activist who believes that art has real potential to effect changes in society.

Gunn-Salie's multidisciplinary practice draws focus to forms of collaboration based on socially engaged dialogue and exchange. Gunn-Salie’s work has been included in significant exhibitions: New Museum Triennial (2018); Frieze Sculpture, Regents Park (2018); South African Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia (2015); and 19º Festival de Arte Contemporânea Sesc Videobrasil (2015) and solo exhibitions include Zeitz MOCAA (2021); Mendes Wood DM, Galpão Videobrasil, Museu de Congonhas (2016); and at Goodman Gallery (2015).

Gunn-Salie completed a BA Hons in sculpture at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2012 and has been awarded the SP-Arte / Videobrasil prize (2016), the FNB Art Prize (2018).

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

  • 2012 BA Hons. in sculpture, UCT Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town

  • 2021 Line in the sand, Zeitz MOCAA museum, Cape Town

    2020 - Crying for Justice, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town

    2019 Three-years running, collaboration with Aline Xavier, Skissernas
    Museum, Lund, Sweden

    2017 Prophecy – Agridoce series, Marta Moriarty, Madrid, Spain

    2016 On The Line, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil

    2016 Agridoce, Galpão Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil

    2015 History after apartheid, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

    2014 Haroon Gunn-Salie, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

  • 2022 Exhibition match, curated by Alexander Richards and Phokeng
    Tshepo Setai, A4 Arts foundation, Cape Town

    2021 Eden – poisoned temptations, WhiteSpaceBlackBox, Switzerland

    2021 FIF – International Festival of Photography, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    2020 South-South video program, curated by Rodirgo Moura, OVR

    2020 Haunted Haus, curated by Simon Castets, Swiss Institute for
    Contemporary Art, New York

    2019 Conversations in Gondwana, “Agridoce” with Aline Xavier, CCSP,
    São Paulo, Brazil

    2018 Frieze Sculpture, Regents Park public exhibition, London, UK

    2018 Songs for Sabotage, 4th New Museum Triennial, New Museum,
    New York, USA

    2018 Tell Freedom, Kunstal KADE, Amersfoort, Netherlands

    2016 In Context: Where We Are, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town

    2016 The Art of Disruptions, Iziko South African National Gallery,
    Cape Town

    2016 New Revolutions: Goodman Gallery at 50, Goodman Gallery,
    Cape Town, South Africa

    2015 Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Guggenheim
    Museum Bilbao, Spain

    2015 Southern Panoramas, 19o Festival de Arte Contemporânea Sesc
    Videobrasil, São Paulo

    2015 Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design
    Museum, Germany

    2015 What remains is tomorrow, South African Pavilion at 56th Venice
    Biennale, Venice, Italy

    2014 Surfacing, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town

    2014 From Sitting to Selfie, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg

    2013 Sasol new signatures award exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum,
    Pretoria

    2013 [Working Title], curated by Emma Laurence, Goodman Gallery
    Johannesburg,

    2013 In the night I remember, curated by Kabelo Malatsie, Stevenson
    Gallery, Johannesburg

    2011 Edge of the Table – fourteen Cape Flats youths tell their stories,
    Human Rights Media Centre, District Six Homecoming Centre,
    Cape Town

    2010 Time On Our Hands, curated by Justin Brett, independent project
    space, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town

    2010 Grey Matter, collective performance, Infecting the City public arts
    festival, curated by Brett Bailey, Cape Town

    2010 Taking Pictures, Telling Stories, curated by Paul Weinberg, Exposure
    Gallery, Cape Town

  • 2021 Zeitz MOCAA museum, Cape Town, South Africa

    2019 Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden with Aline Xavier

    2017 Thami Mnyele Foundation, Amsterdam with Aline Xavier

    2016 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, United Kingdom

    2015 Barbosa Morales Collection, São Paulo, Brazil

    2014 Twelve decades art hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa

  • 2020 National Youth Development Agency, Presidential stimulus award

    2018 FNB Art Prize, FNB Art Joburg, Johannesburg

    2015 SP-Arte/Videobrasil award, Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil

    2013 Sasol new signatures award, Pretoria

    2010 Barbara Fairhead Prize for Social Responsibility in Art, University of
    Cape Town