Matthew Michael
About
Work
MOER
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Lives and works in Cape Town
Education
2025 - 2026 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Curatorship (Cum laude), Michaelis School of Fine Art & Centre for Curating the Archive, University of Cape Town
2022 - 2024 Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Art, Cape Town Creative Academy, Cape Town
2020 - 2022 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, University of Pretoria, Gauteng
Solo Exhibitions
Do not Torque to Remember (09/09/2026 - 30/09/2026), The Shapes of Remembering, Everard Read Gallery - Currently on view
The Head and the Heart in the Heat (05/08/2024 - 17/08/2024), Everard Read Gallery, (Cubicle Series), Cape Town
Arena, (20/01/2022 - 03/03/2022), Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
MOER, curated by Matthew Michael & assisted by Björn Thomas for Design Week Cape Town, hosted by KLûK CGDT, Cape Town - Forthcoming
GIRLS 3000, curated by Keely Shinners & Dominique Cheminais, GIRLS Gallery, hosted at Everard Read CIRCA Gallery, Cape Town
Notes on Sculpture, curated by Leah Mascher, World Art, Cape Town
Exhibit B, Peter Clarke Art Centre, Cape Town
Listen, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
Candy Shop, curated by Keely Shinners & Dominique Cheminais, GIRLS Gallery, Cape Town
2025
Winter Group Exhibition, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
You End at the Change, I will Begin There, Michaelis School of Fine Art & the Centre for Curating the Archive, Cape Town
Museums & Management, Michaelis School of Fine Art & Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town
Training Terrain, curated by Matthew Michael, Demo Projects, Cape Town
Forget Me, Not, curated by Björn Thomas, Kalashnikov Gallery, Cape Town
Little Life, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
2024
Pipe Dreams, Demo Projects, Cape Town
Rabbit Hole, curated by Matthew Michael & Björn Thomas, One Park, Cape Town
Blurring the Lines, Gallery the Fourth, Cape Town
2023
Sublet, curated by Amy Cornfield & Unathi Mkonto at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town
Full House, curated by Fede Arthouse & Under Projects, hosted by Blank Projects, Cape Town
Text, curated by Kamyar Bineshtarigh & Brett Charles Seiler, Cape Town
Wild Flowers Do Care Where They Grow, curated by Matthew Michael & Björn Thomas, Cape Town
2022
1 Kasten, Schoenwalder Strasse Project Space, curated by Christian Köebl, Berlin, Germany
Hellmouth, 51 Buitenkant Street, curated by Max Law & Brett Charles Seiler, Cape Town
Got Junk? Vol. 2, Gallery the Fourth, Cape Town
Blue Tape Series 3.0, curated by Björn Thomas at P72 Project Space, hosted by Kalashnikov Gallery, Johannesburg
2021
Got Junk?, Gallery the Fourth, Cape Town
You Don’t Say, University of Pretoria, Tshwane
2020
100 Years: Young Emerging Artists, University of Pretoria, Tshwane
2019
Good On Paper 2, curated by Sibu Masters, Tshwane
2018
Good On Paper, curated by Sibu Masters, Tshwane
Selected Press
2026
10th Anniversary Edition (Print), Sowetan S-Magazine, Johannesburg.
Happy Accidents and Tender Objects: The Expansive Practice of Matthew Michael (Online) Connect Everything Collective, Cape Town
April Edition: The Fashion Issue (Print & Online), Wanted! Magazine, Johannesburg
April Edition (Print), Sowetan S-Magazine, Johannesburg
2024
ISSUE 17 (Limited Edition Print), Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art Magazine, Barcelona
The Head and the Heart in the Heat (Online), KUBA PARIS Contemporary Art Blog, Hamburg
Selected Publications
2026
Like a Piece of Mould, People Would Spot Me Easily (Online), Cape Creative Collective, Cape Town
Call Me When You Read This (Online), Cape Creative Collective, Cape Town
2025
Spare Change? ‘Sorry, No Change (Online), Cape Creative Collective, Cape Town
Saying Something by Selling the Words of Others (Online), Cape Creative Collective, Cape Town
The Water from a Broken Fountain (Online), Cape Creative Collective, Cape Town
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