Emeritus Professor Jane Alexander

Jane Alexander studied at the University of the Witwatersrand (BAFA, MAFA) and taught in the sculpture section of the UCT Michaelis School of Fine Art from 1996 – 2024.  As an artist, she has produced mainly figurative sculptures within installation, tableau, and photomontage environments. Her research interests include contemporary art by artists from Africa in relation to political and social life, and the circulation, marketing, collection, and theorisation thereof.

Solo Exhibitions

2025    Jane Alexander: Infantry with beast.  The Art Institute of Chicago. 15 November – 12 January 2026.

2021    Verity, Faith and Justice 2006.  Stevenson, Amsterdam. 10 April – 22 May.

2020    Infirmary. Site-specific installation, detonator store, former British military magazine, Erf 81, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town.  21 – 23 January. 

2017    Frontier with church (stable).  Old Stable, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.  10 – 13 August.

2016    Jane Alexander: Photomontages 1981 – 1995. Stevenson, Johannesburg. 17 March – 15 April.

2013    Survey:  Cape of Good Hope (2005 – 9), Infantry with beast (2008 – 10). Stevenson, Johannesburg. 18 November – 7 February 2014.

2013    Jane Alexander: Surveys (From the Cape of Good Hope). Cathedral Church of St John the Divine, New York. Site-specific installations organised by the The Africa Center (formerly known as Museum for African Art), New York. April – June.

            Toured: Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art.  February – May 2012; Contemporary Art Museum Houston. 11 August – 4 November 2012.

2011    Jane Alexander. Security (Surveys from the Cape of Good Hope).  Centrale for contemporary art (formerly known as La Centrale Électrique), Brussels. 25 March – 21 August.

2009    On Being Human. Galilee Chapel, Durham Cathedral. For the Institute for Advanced Studies, Durham University. 3 – 22 March. 

2009    Survey. Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. 19 March – 18 April.

2005    Survey: Cape of Good Hope. Kunsthalle Wien. August.

2002    Jane Alexander: African Adventure and other works. DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Sculpture. DaimlerChrysler Konzernzentrale, Forum Stuttgart-Möringen. 17 May – 16 June. Toured: DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin; Pretoria Art Museum; Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town. July – July 2003.  

2002    African Adventure. Site-specific installation. The British Officers’ Mess, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.   

2000    Jane Alexander. London: Gasworks. 25 February – 26 March.

1999    “Bom Boys” and “Lucky Girls”. University of Cape Town Irma Stern Museum. 6 – 31 July.

1995    Jane Alexander: Sculptures and Photomontages. Standard Bank Young Artist Award exhibition. Monument Gallery, Makhanda. Toured Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Gqerberha; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannnesburg; Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein; Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg; Durban Art Gallery; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town. July 1995 – April 1996.

1986   Sculpture and Photomontage. MAFA exhibition  Market Gallery, Newtown,   Johannesburg. October.

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025    Global Fascisms. Haus Der Kulturen De Welt, Berlin.  13 September – 7 December.

2025    One and the Many. The Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria. 15 May – April 2026.

2025    VILLA + the next generation. Nirox Sculpture Park, Cradle of Humankind, Krugersdorp. 11 May – 27 October.

2024    We, the People: 30 Years of Democracy in South Africa. Norval Foundation, Cape Town. 5 December – 22 November 2025.

2024    Vital Signs. Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town.  17 September – 17 October.

2024    If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future. African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta. 20 September – 2 November; Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University, New Orleans 2025.

2024    Disorders – Excerpts from the collection Antoine de Galbert. Museé d’Art Contemporain, Lyon. 8 March – 7 July 2024. 

2023    Arte Povera and South African Art: In Conversation.  Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg. 31 October – 9 December.

2023    Trace – Formations of Likeness: Photography and Video from The Walther Collection. Haus der Kunst, Munich. 14 April – 23 July.

2023    Breaking Down the Walls – 150 years of Art Collecting. Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town. 26 October 2022 – October.

2022    Traverser La Nuit: Works From The Antoine De Galbert Collection. Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon. 12 March – 29 August.

2022    Juxtapositions:  Shine Shivan and Jane Alexander. Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town.  26 March – 30 April.

2021    my whole body changed into something else. Stevenson Gallery, Cape town. 15 July – 4 September.

2019    Prête-moi Ton Rêve. Fondation Pour Le Developpement de la Culture Contemporaine Africaine, Casablanca. 18 June – 31 July.  Touring exhibition:  Dakar, Abidjan, cancelled Cape Town, Lagos, Marrakesh for pandemic. 

2018    Both, And. Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town. July – 24 August.

2018    My Monster. RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. 14 June – 18 August.

2018    Not a Single Story. Nirox Sculpture Park, Cradle of Humankind, Krugersdorp. 12  May – July 31.

2017    The New Parthenon. Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town. 6 July – 11 August.

2017    Being There.  Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris.  16 April – 28 August.

2017    Beauty and its Beasts.  Durban Art Gallery. 31 March to 28 May.

2016    Lifescapes: Six Object Biographies. Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg. 31 January – 9 July.

2016    The Quiet Violence of Dreams.  Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town. 21 July – 27 August.

2016    Artist and Society. Permanent Collection exhibition. Tate Modern, London. June.

2016    When Tomorrow Comes. Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum. 16 March – 29 May.

2016    Lucy’s Iris. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla León. January. Toured: Rochechouart: Musée Départmental d’Art Contemporain, Las Palmas: Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, 2017.

2014    Burning Down the House. Gwangju Biennale. 5 September – 9 November.

2014    A Menagerie of Metaphors. Randolph College Museum, Lynchburg, Virginia: August.

2014    The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary  African Artists. Museum für Modern Kunst, Frankfurt. 21 March – 27 July. Toured: Savannah College of Art and Design Museum. 16 October 2014 – 25 January 2015;  Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington. 9 April 8 – 1 November.

2013    My Joburg. Maison Rouge, Paris. 21 June – 22 September. Toured:

Statatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden. 26 October 2013 – 5 January 2014.

2012    Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life. International Center of Photography, New York. 14 September – 6 January 2013. Toured:  Museum Africa, Johannesburg,13 February – 29 June 2014; Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, 9 July – 15 September  2013; Haus der Kunst, Munich, 15 February – 26 May 2013.

2012    Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art. Redline Art Center, Denver. 25 May –29 July.  Toured: The Art Gallery of Calgary, Alberta. 28 January – 9 March, 2013; Fundacion Canal de Isabel II, Madrid 8 May – 28 July, 2013;
Johannesburg Art Gallery, 7 Sept – 17 November, 2013; The Winnipeg Art Gallery, February – April, 2014.

2012    Contemporary African Photography from The Walther Collection: Appropriated Landscapes. The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm. 16 June 2011 – 13 May.

2011    Peekaboo: New South Africa. Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki. August 20, 2010 – January 16.

2011    Twenty. Nirox Sculpture Park, Cradle of Humankind, Krugersdorp. 6 June  – 15 August.

2011    This Is Our Time. Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town. 3 June – 22 July.

2011    From Pierneef to the Gugulective. Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town. 15 April – 3 October.

2010    The Narcissism of Minor Differences. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. 9 December – 11 March 2011.

2010    Counter-Currents: Experiments in Sustainability in the Cape Region.  Cape Institute for Architecture, Cape Town. 7 April – 6 May.

2009    Dada South? Exploring Dada Legacies in South African Art 1960 – the Present. South African National Gallery, Cape Town. 12 December – 28 February 2010.

2009    The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame. Hotel Dajti, Tirana. Tirana International Contemporary Art Biennial. 18 September – 22 October.

2009    Reflection. Dojima River Biennial. Dojima River Forum, Osaka. 8 August – 6 September.

2009    Umahluko. Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha. 2 May – 21 June.

2009    Kréyol Factory. Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris. 7 April – 5 July.

2009    Security. Gordon Schachat Collection (featured artist). Joburg Art Fair. Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg. 3 – 5 April.

2009    Meeting Point. Saint Francis of Assisi Convent, Havana. 10th Havana Biennial. 27 March – 30 April.

2008    Cities in Crisis: Photographs of the South African Urban Landscape. FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg. 10 April – 9 May.

2007    Apartheid: The South African Mirror. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. 26 September – 3 February, 2008.

2007    Re-Thinking Dissent. Röda Sten, Göteborg. Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art. 25 August – 25 November.

2006    How to Live Together. Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. Bienal de São Paulo. 7 October – 17 December.

2006    Belief. City Hall, Singapore Biennale. 4 September – 12 November.

2006    2nd Triennial for Contemporary Art by the Sea. PMMK Museum of Modern Art Ostend, and the North Sea Coast of Belgium. 1 April – 1 October.

2006    Zoo. La Centrale électrique, Brussels. 22 June – 8 October.

2005    Another World. Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie. Musée National du Mali. 10 November – 10 December.

2005    Becoming Animal: Art in the Animal Kingdom. North Adams, MA: MASS MoCA. 29 May – February 2006.

2005    Il Bello e le bestie. MART – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto.  11 December – 8 May.

2004    Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art. Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine and the Museum for African Art, New York.  23 September – 3 January, 2005. Toured: Contemporary Museum, Honolulu. 24 February – 7 May 2006.

2004    Disorientation by Beauty. Lustwarande 04. Oude Warande, Tilburg. 15 August – 17 October.

2004    Africa Remix: The Contemporary Art of a Continent.  Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf.  24 July – 7 November. Toured: Hayward Gallery, London;  Centre Pompidou, Paris;  Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Johannesburg Art Gallery. February 2005 – September 2007.

2004   Tremor. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi. 22 April – 20 June.

2004    Democracy X. Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town: 22 April – 15 January 2005.

2003    Retreks: unSUNG City. NK Car Park, Stockholm. October 10 – 16.

2003    Coexistence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.  22 January – 29 June. Toured: South African National Gallery, 24 September – 16 February 2004.

2002    Surviving Apartheid: from Drum Magazine to Today. Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris.  29 October – 16 November.

2002    Africa Apart: Afrikanische Künstlerinnen und Künstler Konfrontieren AIDS. Neue Gesellschaft Für Bildende Kunst, Berlin. 13 December – 9 February 2003.

2001    Africas: The Artist and the City. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. 29 May – 11 September.

2001    The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945 –1994. Museum Villa Stuck, Munich. 15 February – 22 April. Toured: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin;  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York. May 2001 – May 2002.

2001    Dis/locación: Imagen & Identidad. Sudáfrica. Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid. 13 June – 15 July. Toured: Sala Rekalde, Bilbao. March – May, 2002.

2001    A.R.E.A.: Art Region End of Africa. Reykjavik Art Museum. November – January.

2000    One closer to the other. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam, Havana.  7th Havana Biennial. November – January, 2001.

2000    Sharing Exoticisms. Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon. Biennale de Lyon. 27 June – 24 September.

2000    RETREKS: unSUNg CITY, How the other half…  Kings Parkade, Eloff Street Johannesburg. September.

2000    Voices of Southern Africa. British Museum, London. 14 November – 28 January, 2001.

2000    Staking Claims. The Granary, Cape Town.  23 September – 16 October.

1999    South Meets West. National Museum Accra. 10 November – 5 December. Toured: Kunsthalle Bern and Historisches Museum Bern. 6 April – 25 June, 2000.

1998    Triennale der Kleinplastik: Europa, Afrika. SudwestLB forum, Stuttgart. October – January.

1998    Africa Africa. Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo. 11 September – 24 November.

1998    Dak’Art: Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain. Galerie Nationale, Dakar. 24 April –30.

1997    Lifetimes: An Exhibition of Southern African Art. Out of Africa cultural festival. Art Bureau, Munich. November – December.

1996    Fault Lines: Inquiries around Truth and Reconciliation. Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town. 16 June – 31 July.

1996    Colours: Contemporary Art from South Africa. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. 24 May – 18 August.

1995    Identità e alterità. Palazzo Grassi. Venice Biennale. 11 June – 15 October.

1994    Art, Society, Reflexion. 5th Havana Biennial. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana. 6 May – 30 June.

1994    un art d’Afrique du Sud. Gallerie de L’Esplanade, La Défence, Paris. 18 May – 31 July.

1994    Xit. South African Association of Arts, Metropolitan Life Gallery, Cape Town.

 

 Collections

• Antoine de Galbert Collection, Paris
• Berardo Collection, Madeira
• Daimler Contemporary Collection Germany, Berlin
• Daimler Collection South Africa, Pretoria
• Durban Art Gallery
• Fellbach Public Collection, Germany
• Gauteng Legislature Art Collection, Johannesburg
• Gertrude Posel Gallery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
• Gordon Schachat Collection, South Africa
• Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
• Jochen Zeitz Collection
• Johannesburg Art Gallery
• Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation Collection
• Johannes Stegman Art Gallery, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
• Maison Européenne de la Photo, Paris
• Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Gqeberha
• Sindika Dokolo Collection, Luanda
• South African Broadcasting Corporation Collection, Johannesburg
• South 32 Collection
• Spier Collection, Stellenbosch
• Standard Bank Corporate Collection, Johannesburg
• Tate Modern, London
• Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg
• University of Cape Town Works of Art Collection
• Wits Art Museum, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
• Walther Collection, Ulm

 

Monographs:

• Alexander, J, Njami, S., Lalu, P., Josephy, S., Saptouw, F., and Nankin, J.  (2024). Jane Alexander. Infirmary, Erf 81 (Cape of Good Hope). Cape Town: Stevenson.
• Alexander, J. (2023).  Erbschein: an den Bergen.  Cape Town: Stevenson.
• Mercer, K., Zehnder, A., Alexander, J. (2020).  ‘Conversation with the artist’.  In Butcher Boys. An Iconic Sculpture and Its Conservation.  Iziko Museums of South Africa. 
• Tietze, T., and Alexander, J.  ‘Photo-Book’. (2016). Jane Alexander: Photo-Book. Cape Town:  Stevenson.
• Alexander, J.  (2015). Jane Alexander:  Survey: Cape of Good Hope 2005 – 9. Cape Town:  Stevenson.
• Subirós, P., Mercer, K., van Robbroeck, L., Njami, S., Jamal, A., and Alexander, J. (2011). Jane Alexander: Surveys (From the Cape of Good Hope). Subirós, P (ed).  New York:  Museum for African Art Art (The Africa Center), Barcelona: ACTAR.
• Amin, A., Sadgrove, M., Subirós, P., Alexander, J., Gildenhard, I., Saldanha, A., and Stange, M. (2009). Jane Alexander: On Being Human. Subirós, P (ed). Durham, UK: Institute of Advanced Study, University of Durham. 
• Njami, S., Miki, A. and Alexander, J. (2002).  Jane Alexander. For the DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Sculpture.  Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag.
• Powell, I.  (1995).  ‘The Angel and the Catastrophe’.  Sculpture and Photomontage: Jane Alexander. For Standard Bank Young Artist Award. Johannesburg: Standard Bank National Arts Festival.
• Alexander, J.  (1995). Photo-Book. Johannesburg.

 

References in selected publications

• Nygaard, A. (2025).  ‘In the Shadow of Humanity: Monsters and Mimicry in the Works of Jane Alexander’.  In NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art. May. Duke University Press.
• Alexander, J.  (2025).  ‘Photo-Book 1981–1995:  Jane Alexander’.  In Orbis Africa Journal.  Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz (ed).  Vol 1 (1) New York: Diasporic Africa Press (DAP). 
• Josephy, S., Alexander, J., Nsabimana, JC.  (2024). ‘Decolonizing Detritus’.  In The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies.  Editors Lucy Soutter and Duncan Wooldridge.  United Kingdom: Routledge.
• Diniz, C. (2024).  ‘Jane and Lygia: Relational Ontologies and Liminal Identities in a Blocked World’.  In JCAF Journal:  Interdisciplinary Knowledge from the South.
• Alexander, J.  (2024). In Programmheft György Ligeti’s opera, Le Grand Macabre, G. Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich.
• Moloi, Nkgopoleng. (2022). `’Cortège, Collision, Composure, Ceremony:  Shine Shivan and Jane Alexander in ‘Juxtapositions’.  Artthrob. 18 April.
• Hackney, L and Vorster, S.  (2016). ‘If so, what remains?’.  In Lifescapes: Six Object Biographies Johannesburg:  Wits Art Museum.
• Mendieta, Eduardo. (2015).  ‘The Biotechnological Scala Naturae and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism: Patricia Piccinini, Jane Alexander, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. In Biopower: Foucault and Beyond. Cisney, V and Morar, N (eds). University of Chicago Press.
• Morris, R C. (2014).  ‘Jane Alexander: Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope) Cathedral Church of St John the Divine, New York City’. In African Arts, Autumn 2, Vol 47, (3). Pages 86 – 88.
• Ndiaye, M. (2014).  ‘L’image théorique ou l’artiste face à l’Histoire’. In Revue Multitudes Majeure  Afropolitan Histories of Art, no 53 – 54. Quirós, K. et Imhoff, A. (eds).
• de Beer, E. M. (2014).  ‘Die frats as eksotiese objek: hibriditeit in Jane Alexander se installasiekunswerk African Adventure’. Verhandeling voorgele ter nakoming vir die graad Magister in Kunsgeskiedenis aan die Potchefstroomkampus van die Noordwes-Universiteit.  
• Alexander, J. (2014). ‘Jane Alexander: Street Cadets with Harbinger: Wish, Walk/Loop, Long.’  In Making Art in Africa 1960 – 2010.  Savage, P (ed).  Surrey: Lund Humphries.
• Subirós, P. (2013).  ‘Jane Alexander: Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope)’. In Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Duke University Press. May.
• Cotter, H. (2013). ‘The Beast in the Human, and Vice Versa:  Jane Alexander’s Work at St John the Divine’.   The New York Times.  25 April.
• Jayawardane, N. (2013).  ‘Strange Cargo: Jane Alexander at the Cathedral of St John the Divine’.  Africa is a Country. 21 May.
• Kerman, M. (2012). ‘Jane Alexander: Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope).’ African Arts, Vol 45 (3), Autumn.
• Alexander, J. (2011) ‘African Adventure: Cape of Good Hope, 1999 – 2000’.  In Contemporary African Photography from the Walther Collection:  Appropriated Landscapes. Diserens, C (ed). Gottingen: Steidl.
• Bajorek, J. (2011). ‘Jane Alexander's Anti-Anthropomorphic Photographs’.  In Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities; Vol 16 (1). Benjamin, A (ed). London: Routledge.
• Alexander, J. (2010) ‘Collaboration report:  the cathedral, the absent, incomplete attendant and her couturier.’ In Artworks in Progress: The Yearbook of the Staff of the Michaelis School of Fine Art; Volume 10.  Edited by Fritha Langerman, Cape Town:  University of Cape Town.
• Barnard-Naudé, J. (2010).  ‘Post-apartheid fraternity, post-apartheid democracy, post-apartheid sexuality: queer reflections on Jane Alexander’s Butcher Boys’. In Queer Theory:  Law, Culture, Empire.  Leckey, R and Brooks, K (eds). Abingdon, UK, and New York: Routledge.
• Bick, T. (2010).  ‘Horror Histories: Apartheid and the Abject Body in the Work of Jane Alexander’. In African Arts, Winter.
• Jamal, A. (2010).  ‘Jane Alexander: Hunger Artist’. In Counter Currents: Experiments in Sustainability in the Cape Town Region. Pieterse, E (ed). Johannesburg: Jacana Media in association with the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town.
• Williamson, S. (2009).  ‘South African Art Now’. Johannesburg: Jacana Media.
• Mcgee, J. (2007). ‘Canons Apart and Apartheid Canons: Interpellations Beyond the Colonial in South African Art’. In Partisan Canons.  Brzyski, A (ed). Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press.
• Powell, I. (2007). ‘Inside and Outside of History’. In Art South Africa. Vol 5 (4). Winter.
• Enwezor, O. (2004).  ‘The Enigma of the Rainbow Nation: Contemporary South African Art at the Crossroads of History’.  In Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art. New York and Cape Town: Museum for African Art and Spier.
• Josephy, S.  (2004)  ‘Jane Alexander’. In New Identities: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Südafrika. Golinski, H. G. and Hiekisch-Picard, S (eds). Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag.
• Lamprecht, A. (2004).  ‘Jane Alexander’. In 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa.  Perryer, S (ed). Cape Town: Bell-Roberts Publishing.
• Murinik, T. (2004).  ‘Jane Alexander’. In Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art. New York and Cape Town: Museum for African Art and Spier.
• Thompson, N. (2004).  ‘Monstrous Empathy’ and “Jane Alexander’.  In Becoming Animal: Contemporary Art in the Animal Kingdom.  Massachusetts: MASS MoCA Publications.
• Martin, M. (2001). ‘Post-Apartheid South Africa’. In Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century, edited by Fall, N and Pivin, J. Paris: Editions Revue Noire.
• Oguibe, O. (2000) ‘Jane Alexander’. In Fresh Cream. London: Phaidon Press Ltd.
• Morphet, T. (1998). ‘Grausame Strassen’.  In Triennale der Kleinplastik:  Europa, Afrika catalogue.  Stuttgardt:  Stadtische Galerie Goppingen.
• Arnold, M. (1996).  ‘Women and Art in South Africa’. Cape Town: David Philip Publishers.
• Jamal, Ashraf. (1996).  ‘Jane Alexander: Integration Programme’. In Art in South Africa: The Future Present. Cape Town: David Philip Publishers.
• Nolte, Jacqueline. (1996).  ‘Jane Alexander: Sculpture and Photomontage’. In Third Text, Vol 10 (36) Autumn.

 

Awards

2020   Edoardo Villa Will Trust Special Award for Excellence in the Field of Sculpture

2016   NRF B2 rated researcher

2014   Mbokodo Award for Sculpture

2004   University of Cape Town fellowship

2002   DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Sculpture

1996   FNB Vita Art Now Award

1995   Standard Bank Young Artist Award

1982   National Fine Arts Student Competition Award

1982   Martienssen Prize, University of the Witwatersrand