KYLE MORLAND

Kyle Morland’s (b.1986, Johannesburg) practice engages sculpture and photography as a means of documenting and reimagining functional forms and structures. His continuously growing archive of photographs resonates in his sculptures, as he borrows and stretches industrial forms and materials. Morland often makes his own tools in order to realise his sculptures, creating functionless forms from his studio which is, at times, reminiscent of an industrial workshop. Morland realises his ideas within the context of self-imposed formal constraints —responding to challenges he sets for himself in creating the work.

Solo exhibitions:

2021: Variations on a lofted bend, blank projects. Cape

Town

2018: New Work, blank projects. Cape Town
2017: Now and Then: El Look and Kyle Morland, Zeitz

Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. Cape Town 2016: Assemble, blank projects. Cape Town
2016: Surplus: Special Projects for the Cape Town art

fair. Cape Town
2015: NODE, blank projects. Cape Town
2013: New Sculptures, blank projects. Cape Town
2011: FalseworkII, blank projects.CapeTown
2010: Elevator, In Collaboration with Claire van Blerk,

Michael Stevenson, CapeTown
2009: There Can Be No Disputing Over Matters of

Taste, Michealis Graduate Exhibition. Cape Town

Group exhibitions:

2021  

The thing itself exists everywhere: blank projects,

Cape Town,

2020  

Unfolding Questions, Codes, and Contours:

Tromsø Center for Contemporary Art, Tromsø

2019  
Art Joburg: blank projects, Johannesburg

Armory, New York

Sounding the Void, Imagining the Orchestra V.1. A4

Arts Foundation. Cape Town
The Head The Hand, Blank projects. Cape Town

2018  
blank, Galerie Guido W. Baudach. Berlin
Parallel Play, A4 Arts Foundation. Cape Town

Open Agenda. Blank projects. Cape Town

2017  
17, a summer show. blank projects. Cape Town

Smart Principles. Atlantic House. Cape Town

More for Less, A4 Arts Foundation. Cape Town

Afterword. blank projects. Cape Town

2016 
Figure. blank projects. Cape Town
Woman Work; Crafting Stories, Subverting Narratives. South African Museum. Cape Town

blank at the Trumpet. Keys Art Mile, Rosebank,
Off the Wall: An 80th Celebration with Linda Givon. Wits

Art Museum. Johannesburg

Bootleg Triennial, Atlantic House. Cape Town
Tomorrows/Today, Special Project at Cape Town Art Fair

2015 
Furniture, blank projects. Cape Town 
Open Printmaking Studio 2015. The Association of

Visual Arts. Cape Town

Winter Sculpture Fair, Nirox foundation. Johannesburg

2014 
Shaaa, Atlantic House. Cape Town 
Next thing you know. blank projects. Cape Town 
Thinking, Feeling, Head, Heart. The New Church

Museum. Cape Town

The Collectors, Supermarket Art Fair. Stockholm 
Bzaar III, Atlantic House. Cape Town

2013 
This is the Thing, A Group Show of New Material, blank

projects. Cape Town
Terminal, Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative

Arts. Cape Town 
Back to the Future: Abstract Art in South Africa Past and

Present, SMAC Gallery. Stellenbosch

Flag New York City, New York 
blank projects in Johannesburg, Ithuba Art Trust,

Braamfontein 
Bzaar II, Fairweather House. Cape Town 
Housewarming, Atlantic House. Cape Town 
An Experiment to Test the Destiny of the World, Ithuba

Arts Gallery. Braamfontein
Collective.1 Design Fair, New York 
Heavy Metal, Southern Guild. Cape Town

2012 
When Form Becomes Attitude, blank projects. Cape

Town 

Bootleg, Evil Son. Cape Town 
A Shot To The Arse , Michaelis Gallery. Cape Town Overland Reverie, Entopic Group, Online
Working Title, Goodman Gallery. Cape Town 
Coming of Age, Johannesburg Art Gallery.

Johannesburg

Advace/...Notice, Goodman Gallery. Johannesburg

2011 
Collection 15, SMAC Gallery. Cape Town 
The Independent Publishing Project, Blank Projects.

Cape Town

Overland Reverie, R Stevenson Gallery. Cape Town 
The Night Show, Goodman Gallery Cape. Cape Town

2010 
SasoI New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum. Pretoria

Time On Our Hands, V&A Waterfront. Cape Town

Video Experiments I, Little Theatre. Cape Town

2009 
Pillow Talk, Centre for African Studies,Cape Town.

Collections

University of South Africa 
The New Church Museum
A4 Arts Foundation 
Zietz Museum of Contemporary Arts Africa

Emile Stipp Collection