Garth Meyer is a photographer and filmmaker who lives in South Africa. He holds a Photography Technician Diploma, an Advanced Diploma in Film & Television Production Techniques, a BAFA Honors, and a MFA (2019) from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at UCT. He is part of The African Film Library, and in 2012, he was published in the book South African Cinema 1896 – 2010 by Dr. Martin Botha. The book focuses on the many highly creative uses of cinematic form, style, and genre set against South Africa’s complex and often turbulent social and political landscape. In the same year, he participated in the group exhibition Environment and Object: Recent African Art at the Frances Young Tang Museum in New York. In 2013 he was nominated for the Prix Pictet Global Award in Photography and Sustainability. He was part of the Johannesburg Art Fair (2016) and the Cape Town Art Fair with Warren Editions (2017, 2018). In 2019 he was awarded the Tierney Fellowship Award for Photography representing UCT. His MFA dissertation, of still and moving images, documented the political ecology of primary hardwood forests along the imaginary line of the equator in Africa, South East Asia, and South America. In 2021 Barnard Gallery and Foto Black Box presented his solo exhibition LINE. In 2021-2022 Meyer taught photography at the Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography. His most recent thematic exploration Barrier investigates a re-imagination and narrative shift of how we as societies consider gender borders. The photograph and object become counter-arguments, metaphors, allegories, cultural indexes, and symbols of the complexities of fragility and transgression. In 2024 Meyer will be a part of the Investec Art Fair in Cape Town. Currently, he is writing an original screenplay titled Catcher which explores the history of photography and addiction.

door, 2017. Giclée Print. 1100 x 1390mm.

•  Master in Fine Art (MFA). Distinction. Michaelis School of Fine Art,
  University of Cape 2018-2019.
• BAFA Distinction. Bachelor of Art in Fine Art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art,
  University of Cape Town: BAFA Honours Degree 2014-2017.
• Advanced Diploma in Film & Television Production Techniques 2012. Distinction.
  Top Student Award 2012. City Varsity School of Media and Creative Arts.
• Higher Education Diploma in Film & Television Production Techniques 2003-2005.
  City Varsity School of Media and Creative Arts.
• Photography Technician Diploma. 1988. Langara College, Vancouver, Canada.

• LensCulture Black & White Photography Awards 2024 / Single Image Finalist. 2024.
• Sony Alpha SA, Sony A7R V and the G-master 85mm F/1.4 for AVANTI social media campaigns in collaboration with Image Management.
  Investec Art Fair ALT: Cape Town, Barrier, 2024. Alternative Booth: Kudita and Meyer.
• Oude Leeskamer Gallery: Jannie Mouton Foundation. Stellenbosch 2024. Merging Matter: a group exhibition showcasing the work of artists whose practice explores the materiality of painting and photography.
• Group Exhibition. April 2023. Exhibition at the UN October 2023. United Nations (UNDP and UNEP) Re – Connections: In Kinship With Nature. 2022. Limpopo, Zimbabwean / South African border, 2022.
• Cavalli Group Exhibition: Days of Being Wild 2022
• Barnard Gallery and Foto Black Box present LINE. Solo Exhibition March 9- April 6 2021.
• PHOTO London 2021: Black Box Publishing – Discovery Virtual Exhibition.
• artHARARE Contemporary Art Fair Zimbabwe group exhibition: 8-12 December 2020.
• Internship Dan Halter 2020.
• Smith Studio Solo Show 2020.
• SAFFCA 2019. SEED-1, the celebration of the wealth, depth and diversity of
  Southern African Contemporary Art. 60 carefully selected recent artworks by some of
  the most established and most promising emerging Southern African Contemporary
  Artists.
• Michaelis Main Gallery. LINE. MFA Solo Exhibition. 18 November 2019.
• Rocks, Group exhibition and publication launch, 14 September 2019, at the gallery,
  44 Stanley Avenue, Braamfontein Werf, Johannesburg
• Smith Studio Group Exhibition 2019. Emphatic Whispers.
• Smith Studio Group Exhibition 2018. Line. Color. Form.
• Michaelis School of Fine Art: 2014-2019. Michaelis Main Gallery.
• Cape Town Art Fair 2017. Group Exhibition Warren Editions.
• International Johannesburg Art Fair 2016. Group Exhibition Warren Editions.
• Inaugural YIPSA Group Photographic Exhibition and Auction 2016.
• Collaboration on Umlungo with Dan Halter at WHATFTHEWORLD 2016.
• Environment and Object: Recent African Art Group Exhibition, Middlebury Museum
  of Art, Vermont, 27 January 2012. 22 April 2012.
• Environment and Object: Recent African Art Group Exhibition, Anderson Gallery,
  Richmond, September 2011. December 2011.
• Environment and Object: Recent African Art Group Exhibition, The Frances Young
  Tang Museum, New York, 2011.
• International Johannesburg Art Fair, 2011.
• Study of Trees Solo Exhibition, The Rooke Gallery, Johannesburg, October 2010.
• International Johannesburg Art Fair, 2010.
• Everard Read Collection 2010.
• Spring Art Tour, The Rooke Gallery, Johannesburg, 2009.
• BMW Art Series Talks, The Rooke Gallery, Johannesburg, 2009.
• Transitions Group Exhibition, Alison Kelly Gallery, Contemporary South African
  Photography, Melbourne, 2009.
• Change Of Tone Group Exhibition, Depot II Gallery, Sydney, 2008.
• Sasol New Signatures Group Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum, 2008.
• Group Show, Focus Contemporary Art Gallery, Cape Town, 2008.
• Jabulisa Group Exhibition, Gallery Aloft, Sydney, 2008.
• Green Mansions Solo Exhibition, FTFA, Johannesburg, 2005.
• Earth Vision Group Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Harare, 2002.
• Gilda Radner Cancer Foundation, Group Show, London, 1999.
• Edition Zimbabwe Solo Exhibition, Frost, London, 1998.

• Collaboration with Mbongeni Mtshali on [S]KIN 2016. Art Installation and
  Performance 2016.
• Taming Peter NFVF, 2014.
• Bitter Water ABSA KKNK Art Festival, Oudtshoorn, 2007.
• Bitter Water Sithengi World Cinema Film Festival, Cape Town, 2006.
• Killer October Amakula Kampala International Film Festival, Uganda, 2006.
• Killer October Open Doek International Film Festival, Belgium, 2006.
• Killer October Cape Town Film Festival, Cape Town, 2006.
• Killer October The Right Eye Film Festival, 2006.
• Killer October Apollo Film Festival, Victoria West, 2005.
• Killer October Sithengi World Cinema Film Festival, Cape Town, 2005.
• Killer October Zanzibar International Film Festival, Zanzibar, 2005.
• Killer October Durban International Film Festival, Durban, 2005.
• Freedom to Celebrate: A Tale of South African Music Musica, South Africa, 2005.
• Seng’ Inkomo Amapondo, South Africa, 2006.
• Quamta Shortz Film Festival, Cape Town, 2005.
• Quamta Resfest, Africa, 2004

• Nominated to apply for The Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) by UCT 2019.
• Humanities Faculty Research Committee: Humanities Completion Grant 2019.
• Maclver Scholarship 2018-2019.
• Jules Kramer Scholarship 2018.
• Tierney Fellowship Award 2018-2019 representing the University of Cape Town.
• UCT Council Honours Merit Scholarship for the Masters in Fine Art Program at the
  Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town for 2018.
• Faculty of Humanities Award 2017 Photography 4: Simon Gerson Prize for producing
  an outstanding body of work.
• Nominated by the Michaelis School of Fine Art for the 2017 & 2018 Tierney
  Fellowship created in 2003 by The Tierney Family Foundation to support emerging
  artists in the field of photography.
• Faculty of Humanities Student Excellence Award for having obtained the highest
  GPA in BA Fine Art (Third and Fourth Year) 2016-2017.
• Faculty of Humanities Award and Class Medal. Top Student 3rd Year, Photography
  3. 2016.
• Faculty of Humanities Award and Class Medal. Top Student 3rd Year, Studiowork 3.
  2016.
• Faculty of Humanities Award and Class Medal Top Student 2nd Year, Studiowork 2.
  2015.
• Golden Society Key Membership for being in the top 10% of UCT 2014, 2015, 2016,
  2017. Membership # 13125374.
• Nominated for the Prix Pictet Global Award in Photography and Sustainability 2013.

• Taming Peter SAFTA Nomination 2015. Achievement of creative excellence in Film
  and Television Arts.
• Taming Peter Golden Horn Award for Best Student Film.
• Top Student Award. City Varsity School of Media and Creative Arts. 2012.
• Best Production Design Award, 48 Hours (Four), 2012.
• Bitter Water Best South African Short Film, ABSA KKNK Kanna Award, 2007.
• Killer October Best Short Film, Apollo Film Festival, 2005.
• Roll On Best Cinematography, MNet MultiChoice Africa Awards, 2004.
• City Varsity Best Documentary Short Film Award, 2004.
• City Varsity Best Camerawork and Lighting Award, 2003.

• “Meyer’s work effortlessly moves from realism to abstraction, transcending photographic depiction by foregrounding the phenomenological act of looking – the large format images allow for the proliferation of visual and narrative detail to a point of expressive abstraction, every detail is captured at resolutions far higher than what we tend to be able to perceive or absorb, resulting in a powerful surplus of visual information. It is in this overload of what is made available on the surface, that
  we find the potential of the narrative. The territory of detail exceeds the capacity of the eye perceiving it, the result is an immersion through overwhelm.” Maja Marx,
  SAFFCA-2019.
• Taming Peter used as a teaching device by Dr. Gordon Isaacs’ professional career spans over forty years in the field of Clinical Social Work. Gordon opened the first Crisis Clinic in Johannesburg, where he worked as Head of Therapeutic Services, as
  well as serving as a consultant for many addiction centres in South Africa. He gained his Masters and PhD degrees at the University of Cape Town, where for several years he was Professor and Head of the Social Work Department. Gordon has published extensively in the fields of human sexuality and HIV, crisis intervention, rape, and has co-authored a textbook, published by Oxford University Press, on homosexual identity, culture and crisis. Gordon is currently the Psycho-social Coordinator of
  SWEAT’s Outreach and Development programme (Cape Town).
• Garth Meyer’s short films are taught at the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the
  Faculty of Humanities at UCT as part of the curriculum by Dr Martin Botha.
• South African Cinema 1896 2010’ Critical Review, Dr Martin Botha, 2012.
• ‘New York Times June 2011’ Critical Review, Mr Holland Cotter, “… So, Africa as the peaceable Kingdom? No one goes quite as far in a Utopian direction. The South African photographer Garth Meyer appears to in photographs of Zimbabwe, Gabon and Rwanda, though underlying the images is awareness that these environments are constantly threatened by degradation…” 2011.
• ‘The Citizen January 2006’, “A New Generation of Short Film Makers… An extraordinary short film won the category: Best South African Short film during this year’s Apollo film festival in Victoria West. Killer October was shot in Zimbabwe by
  director Garth Meyer…” Dr Martin Botha, 2006.
• ‘Belgium Open Doek International Film Festival’ “… Garth Meyer’s ‘Killer October’
  is head and shoulders above the rest… ”. 2006.
• ‘Sunday Times November 2005’ “… Killer October is this year’s best South African short film. The attempt to contextualise the South African present in terms of traditional African culture, giving rise to what may become a promising indigenous South African visual style… ” Madoda Ncayiyane, 2005.
• ‘Film Maker’s Guide to South Africa “… Director Garth Meyer presented an experimental film surrounding the trials and tribulations of rural life…”
• ‘International Film Guide 2006’ Critical Review, Dr Martin Botha, 2006 Collections.
• The Frances Young Tang Museum, New York.
• Anderson Gallery, Richmond.
• MNET Multichoice African Film Library

• Eden Complex Photogravure. Warren Editions 2016-2018.
• Environment and Object: Recent African Art. Delmonico Books: Prestel Publishing.
• South African Cinema 1896- 2010, Dr Martin Botha, 2012.

• Spanish Vogue. L’Uomo Vogue. (T)here Art Magazine. Amica. Spoon. Créme.
  Cerruti. Jaeger. Armand Basi. Dolce & Gabbana. Lawrence Steele. Antonio Del
  Aqua.