GEORGINA GRATRIX

Georgina Gratrix (b. 1982, Mexico City) graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 2005. In 2018, she was awarded the Discovery Prize in honour of Art Brussels’ 50th anniversary. Her solo exhibitions include Sunday Painting, Dirimart Pera, Istanbul (2025); Love like a sunset, a summer playlist, Stevenson, Cape Town (2025); Notes from the Studio, Monica De Cardenas Gallery, Milan (2025); The Cult of Ugliness, Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town (2022); This Must Be The Place, Kwa-Zulu Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA), Durban (2021); The Pleasure is Mine, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); On Repeat, SMAC Gallery, Johannesburg (2017) and Puppy Love, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town (2016). Her group exhibitions include Some Dogs Go to Dallas, The Green Family Art Foundation, Texas (2024); You to Me, Me to You, A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town (2023); Recent Acquisitions by the Homestead Collection, Norval Foundation, Cape Town (2020); Hollywood Babylon: A Re-inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Jeffrey Deitch, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); Everybody Loves the Sunshine, Plus One Gallery, Antwerp (2018) and Thinking, Feeling, Head, Heart, New Church Museum, Cape Town (2016). Her works are held in prominent collections, such as the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Miami; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Nando’s Arts Collection, and the Norval Foundation, Cape Town. Georgina Gratrix lives and works in Cape Town

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