Dumile Feni Profile 1942 - 1991

 

Solo Exhibitions 

 

1965 Gallery 101, Johannesburg

        Durban Art Gallery, Kwazulu Natal

1966 Gallery 101, Johannesburg

1967 Transvaal academy, Johannesburg

1968 Sketches from a private collection, goodma Gallery, Johannesburg

1988 La Galleria, New York, USA

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

1965 Transvaal Academy, Johannesburg

        SA Breweries Art Prize Exhibition, South African tour

        Republic Festival Exhibition, Tshwane

        Pretoria Art Museum, Tshwane

        Johannesburg Civic Theatre, Johannesburg

        Artists of fame and promise, Adler Fielder Galleries, Johannesburg

        Trans-NAtal, NAtal Society for the Arts, Durban

        Sao Paulo Bienale, Brazil

        South African Sculpture (1900 - 1967), Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg

1969 Camden Arts Cente, London, UK

        Grosvenor Gallery, London, UK

1970 The 51 Club Winter Art Exhibition, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

        Exhibition from the collection of Desmond Fisher, Goodman Gallery,

        Johannesburg

1971 Gallery 101, Johannesburg

1972 Gallery 101, Johannesburg

1975 South African Sculpture, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

        African Art from South Africa, Gallery 21, London, UK

1977 Cape Town Festival, South African National Galleries, Cape Town

        Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg

        Pretoria Art Museum, Tshwane

        University of the Orange Free State

        William Humphrey Art Gallery, Kimberley

        Contemporary Art in South Africa, Gallery University Fort Hare, Eastern Cape

1981 Black Art Today, Jabulani Standard Bank, Soweto

1982 Art toward ssocial development: an exhibition of South African Art, National

        Museum and Art Gallery, Gaborone, Botswana 

1983 Commemoration of Namibia Freedom Day, United NAtions Exhibition, New

        York, USA

1987 Unlock Apartheid's jails, conference on children under apartheid, with Bill Cosby

        and the American Committe of Africa, Hyatt Hotal, New York, USA

        Uhuru: an exhibition of African American Art against apartheid, City without walls

        Gallery, New Jersey, USA

        Voices from Exile, 7 South Afrcian artists, Washington D.C, USA

1989 Portrait of Neslon Mandela for the Pathfinder Mural, New York, USA

1990 Township Art from South Africa, Applecrest, New York, USA

1991 Standard Bank National Arts festival, Grahamstown

 

 

Awards

 

1966 SA Breweries Art Competition

1971 African Studies Centre, University of California, Los Angeles Art competition

1972 Winner, U.T.A pavement competition

1973 First Prize for drawing at the Sao Paulo Biennale

2003 Posthumously awarded the the Order of Ikhamanga, for excellence in the arts