These are some of the key shows, publications where you can find Julia Tiffin’s work. Click on the link below to find out more about Julia’s Fine Art education, creative working experience including her Fine Art Photography lecturing at tertiary institutions.
s e l e c t e d g r o u p e x h i b i t i o n s
4 – 23 Aug 1997 Skin
Two-person show, Michelle du Toit & Julia Tiffin. Association for Visual Arts (AVA), Cape Town [Title of series: Skin/Beauty & Decay]
July 1997 – Feb 1998 Photosynthesis
Group show curated by the South African National Gallery: Contemporary South African Photography. Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, July 1997; Johannesburg National Art Gallery, October 1997; South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Dec 1997 – Feb 1998. [Title of images: Skin/Beauty & Decay]
27 May – 22 Aug 1998 L-Afrique par elle-même (eyeAfrica)
Group show curated by Revue Noire: Exhibition of African Photography from 1840 to the present. Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, 27 May – 22 Aug 1998; Sao Paolo Bienale, Brazil, at the Pinacotea do Estado, Oct – Dec 1998; Smithsonian Institute, Washington; The Castle of Good Hope, William Fehr Collection, Cape Town, 19 Dec 1998
[Title of series: Skin/Beauty & Decay]
12 July – 31 Oct 1999 Lines of Site Exhibition – Photographs Denied
Group show curated by Cedric Nunn. South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 12 July – 31 Oct 1999; Recontres de Bamako (Bamako Encounters), Biennale Africaine de la Photographie, (African Biennial of Photography), Bamako, Mali, Nov 2001.
3 Aug – 2 Oct 1999 Postcards from South Africa to America
First group show of SA artists in the USA, curated by Lisa Brittan & Gary van Wyk, Axis Gallery, New York.
[Title of series: Postcards from Paradise]
May 2000 Soft Serve II: Art at Play
Group show & Multimedia Art event, curated by publiceye, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, opened 5 May 2000. [Title of series: Scratch ’n Sniff]
8 April 2000 Catharsis
Group show & Multimedia Art event, curated by Artichoke, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, opened 8 April 2000. [Title of series: body count]
9 Aug – 19 Sept 2000 Celebration of Motherhood
Group show, curated by Jenny Altschuler, Alliance Française, Cape Town, South Africa. [Title of work: Awaiting my unborn child]
13 – 20 July & 3 – 24 Aug 2002 Positionen Südafrikanischer Fotografie – Heute
Group show of South African Photographers: Position of SA Photography – Today, curated by RoxAnn Madera, OMC Gallery (Galerie für Gegenwartskunst), Dusseldorf, Germany
Sept – Dec 2002 Mature A Penser I Photographies Corporelles – Body Art
3-person show (Chinese, French & South African artists: QIU Zhijie, Thierry FONTAINE, Julia TIFFIN) curated by L´Artothèque Museum, Saint-Denis, Reunion Island, France; on show in Reunion Island, France & China. [Title of series: Skin/Beauty & Decay]
June 2002 Postcard Exhibition
Group show of Mail Art, Mind’s I Art Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa. [Title of series: Postcards from Paradise]
May 2003 Braai: A collection of works by SA photographers
Group show of photographers, curated by Pieter Badenhorst, Cold Room Gallery, Cape Town [Title of series: Home Sweet Home]
22 Aug – 22 Oct 2019 Point Blank Woman’s Show I Photography & Activism
Group show of photographers, curated by Simone Tredoux, PH Centre, Cape Town [Title of series: body count]
s o l o e x h i b i t i o n s
6 Jan – 22 Jan 1999 Blindfold I
Solo show, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, part of eyeAfrica
23 Sept – 15 Oct 1999 Noah’s Ark
Solo show, Long Street Baths, Cape Town, part the Cape Town Month of Photography (MoP I)
1 April – 27 April 2002 Buried Alive
Solo show, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, part the Cape Town Month of Photography (MoP II)
17 Feb – 11 March 2005 Lifting the Veil
Solo show, The Castle of Good Hope Iziko Museum B Block, part the Cape Town Month of Photography (MoP III)
p u b l i c a t i o n s
PhotoSynthesis catalogue
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, ed. Kathy Grundlingh, 1996, pp. 6 & 15
Revue Noire
No. 26, Madagascar edition, Paris, ed. Jean Loup Pivin, Sept-Nov 1997, pp. 294-295, 429
Anthologia da Fotografia Africana e do Oceano Indico / Anthology of African & Indian Ocean Photography
Revue Noire, Paris, eds. Jean Loup Pivin & Pascal Martin Saint Leon, 1998, pp. 294-295
[This African Photography Reference book won: Nadar Awards, France 1998; Photo-Eye Best Photographic Book, USA 1999; Best Photographic Book of the Year, USA 1999 (New York Times Books Review)]eyeAfrica catalogue
Revue Noire, Cape Town, eds. Pierre-Laurent Sanner & Kelly Berman, 1998
100XC Photography in South Africa
The Cape Town Month of Photography Catalogue, The South African Centre for Photography at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, ed. Geoffrey Grundlingh, 1999, p 87
Lines of Site
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 2001
The Cape Town Month of Photography 2002
The South African Centre for Photography, Cape Town, ed. Geoffrey Grundlingh, 2002, p 152
Mature A Penser I Photographies Corporelles
Artothèque du Département de La Réunion, ed. Caroline de Fondaumière, 2002, pp. 5, 7-8, 10-12, 22-27, 32
The Cape Town Month of Photography 2005
The South African Centre for Photography, Cape Town, ed. Geoffrey Grundlingh, 2005
c o l l e c t i o n s
Revue Noire, Paris, 1999, permanent collection
João Ferreira Private Collection, Johannesburg, 1999 & 2002
Paul McCabe Private Collection, Miami, 2002
L´Artothèque Museum, Reunion Island, 2002, permanent collection