Fanie Buys is a South African artist currently based in London. Buys works in a figurative style considering the role of traditional portraiture in contemporary society. Using found images, AI, and unconventional subject matter: Buys considers the act of painting as a performative meditation to realise hidden, often tongue-in-cheek, meaning. Erudite, verbose, but always witty, Buys’ work is a developing practice considering himself as an artist juxtaposed against a critical disdain of people who put that in their artist’s statements.
Buys was a co-recipient of the Judy Steinberg Award for Painting and the Simon Gerson Award for an exceptional body of work. Buys has been included in several group shows and has mounted several solo presentations, namely: Miss in 2021 and Happy Birthday Jesus! in 2019 (both at 99 Loop gallery in Cape Town).
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Exhibitions
2023
So Called, solo presentation (online)
New Normal Projects, London, UK
Outlines/Traces, auction (online)
Cur8, Cape Town, South Africa
2022
Calls to Mind, group show
Koop Projects, Brighton, UK
Fluorescents, group show (curator and participant)
Server Room Studios, Cape Town
Between Image and Text, group show
The Gallery, Johannesburg
2021
Miss, Solo Presentation
99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town
Anthropomorphic, group show
RK Contemporary, Riebeek Kasteel
The Lockdown Collection, group show
Online
2020
Latitudes Art Fair, group show
Spier Arts Trust Booth, Johannesburg
SHE, group show
RK Contemporary, Riebeek Kasteel
Proxies, group show
The Gallery, Johannesburg
The Grand V, group show
Rust en Vrede Gallery, Cape Town
On The Up, group show
Imibala Gallery, Cape Town
2019
Happy Birthday Jesus! solo show
99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town
Self, group show
Gallery Glen Carlou, Stellenbosch
Open Studios , group show
RK Contemporary, Riebeek Kasteel
The Artist is Present, solo performance
99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town
RMB Turbine Art Fair, group show
99 Loop Gallery Booth, Johannesburg
Countershading, group show
Art on Avenues, Somerset West
Tollman Bouchard Finlayson Competition, group show
Fynarts, Hermanus
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, group show
99 Loop Gallery Booth, Cape Town
2018
The Cat Show, group show
David Krut Projects, Johannesburg
Close Encounters, group show
Smith Studio, Cape Town
Untitled 6.99, group show
99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town
Tollman Bouchard Finlayson Competition Show, group show
Fynarts, Hermanus
This Man, solo show
99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, group show
99 Loop Gallery Booth, Cape Town
2017
A Piece of Work, group show
David Krut Projects, Johannesburg
In with the New, group show
The Gallery, Riebeek Kasteel
Nano 1.1, group show
Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
Untitled 5.99, group show
99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town
Out of Nowhere, group show
Smith Studio, Cape Town
Fluid: Some Recent Perspectives in Painting, group show
Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2016
Michaelis Graduate Exhibition, group show
Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town
Series/Friends 3.3: An Open Exchange, group show
World Art, Cape Town
Unpacking, group show
Eclectica Contemporary, Cape Town
2015
Sanlam Portrait Award Top 100, group show
Casa Labia, Cape Town
Education
PGCE (1 Year) 2017
University of Cape Town
Specialising in Art and English
BA Fine Art (4 Years) 2013-2016
Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town
Specialising in Printmaking
Distinction in studio work
Co-Winner of the Judy Steinberg Prize for Painting and the Simon Gerson Prize for an Original Body of Work