Bronwyn Katz

Bronwyn Katz (born 1993, in Kimberley, South Africa) is a South African artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores land, memory, trauma, language, and the lived experience of place. Working across sculpture, installation, video, and performance, Katz examines how territory holds histories of occupation, erasure, and survival through found materials, abstract form, and systems of notation that connect materiality to cultural memory.  Katz earned a BFA from the Michaelis School of Art at the University of Cape Town in 2015 and received the Simon Gerson Prize. Their work often engages mapping, Indigenous and creolized language, ancestry, and the social construction of boundaries, using salvaged objects, metal, stone, wire, and installation to consider how histories of land and belonging remain embedded in material form. Katz is also a founding member of iQhiya, the women artists’ collective that has performed internationally, including at Documenta 14.  Their work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions including at Palais de Tokyo, White Cube, Andrew Kreps Gallery, the Biennale of Sydney, the New Museum Triennial, and the Venice Biennale. Katz received the First National Bank Art Prize in 2019, was shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize in 2021, and in 2022 was selected as a protégé in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative with El Anatsui. Bronwyn Katz lives and works between Cape Town and Johannesburg.