Sitaara Stodel
Sitaara Stodel (b.1991) is a Cape Town-based contemporary artist working across mediums of photography, collage, video and printmaking. Following her 2014 graduation from Michaelis School of Fine Art (University of Cape Town), Stodel was awarded the prestigious Tierney Fellowship, granting her the opportunity for further practice and mentorship. In the years that followed, Stodel has taken part in a number of shows across Cape Town, including at the Zeitz MOCAA, SMAC Gallery, Everard Read and Stevenson, and has been ongoingly involved in education. Currently working in the Michaelis photographic department as the senior technical officer of photography, Stodel is highly accomplished across multiple analogue photographic methods, and this experience has been key in shaping her various approaches to image-making. Sitaara is currently in her 2nd year as a Masters student at the Michaelis School of Fine Art.
Education
2011 - 2014 BA in Fine Art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. Majored in photography in 2013.
2009 Matriculated with 5 distinctions from Fish Hoek High School
Special Projects
2023, Featured in Phaidon’s Vitamin C+: Collage in Contemporary Art
2021, Commissioned to make a collage by Unchartered People
2021 Featured in Magazine, Petala
2021 Featured in Art Book, Dwelling
2019 2m x 3m collage commission from the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Cape Town
2019 Artist Lecture at Stellenbosch University
2019 Collage Workshop at Veld and Sea
2019 Collage Workshop for Art Teachers at the Peter Clarke Art Centre
2019 Collaborated with Buhle Ngaba on video art for her play Swan Song
2018 Workshop, Zeitz MOCAA
2018 Artist Lecture at the Ruth Prowse School of Art
2018 Artist Lecture at the Michaelis School of Fine Art
2018 About 34 Houses, Hokey Poke
2017 Curated Nico Athene’s Exhibition In Bed with Artists Residency, Artist’s House
Solo Exhibitions
2021 The House in My Head Has Many Stories, Salon 91, Cape Town
2019 Unsettled, Solo booth at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town
Group Exhibitions
2023 Far From Home, Galerie Bonne Esperance, France
2023 Hex, Under Projects, Cape Town
2023 Fullhouse, Blank Projects, Cape Town
2023 Latitudes Art Fair, The Gallery JHB, Johannesburg
2023 Pandemic Praxis Pedagogy, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town
2023 Hysteria, Gillian Jason Gallery, London
2022 FNB Joburg Art Fair, Bubblegum Club Gallery, Johannesburg
2022 Slow Intimacy, Gallery (GUS), Cape Town
2022 A Good Time, Aspire Art, Cape Town
2022 Where do I Begin, Stevenson, Cape Town
2022 Vonds | Fonds, Oude Leeskamer, Cape Town
2022 Romance!?, 52 Buitenkant street, Cape Town
2022 Charting the Unchartered, Gallery (GUS), Cape Town
2022 Interferences, Brutal Curation, Cape Town
2021 Premise, by Joe Prussian in abandoned building, Cape Town
2021 Open House, CIRCA at Everard Read, Cape Town
2020 The Spectacle, The Fourth, Cape Town
2020 Kernel, Group show put together by artists, Cape Town
2020 Apartment Vol.2, The Fourth, Cape Town
2020 Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town
2020 Nostalgia, Daor Contemporary, Cape Town
2019 Rendezvous, SMITH, Cape Town
2019 Rocks, Gallery Gallery, Johannesburg
2019 Johannesburg Art Fair, Johannesburg
2019 Voices and Choices, Women’s Jail Constitution Hill, Johannesburg
2019 Two Trees, Collaborative group show with Rosie Mudge at SMITH, Cape Town
2019 To Thine Own Self Be True, Kelvin Corner, Cape Town
2019 Borderlines, The Third Dot, Mauritius
2019 Outside, RK Contemporary, Cape Town
2019 #FREESPACE, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
2019 The Main Complaint, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
2018 Rendezvous SMITH, Cape Town
2018 No Ordinary Woman, PH Center, Cape Town
2018 Close Encounters, SMITH, Cape Town
2018 Shady Tactics, SMAC, Cape Town
2017 [in] appropriate, PH Centre, Cape Town
2017 Marked - A Photographic Print Group Show, Eclectica Print Gallery, Cape Town
2017 Displacement - A group show with other Tierney Fellow, 99 Loop, Cape Town
2017 Art Meets Camera: Closer than ever, MOMO, Cape Town
2016 Emerging Artists, Art in the Yard, Cape Town
2016 Bad Habitus, JNR Muller’s Gallery, Cape Town
2015 Proposal, 6 Spin Street Gallery presented by JNR, Cape Town
2015 Return to Sender, Centre for African Studies Gallery, Cape Town
2015 Greatest Hits 2014: The Domestic Odyssey, AVA, Cape Town
2013 Sasol New Signatures Art Competition Top 100, Pretoria Arts Museum, Pretoria
Awards and Fellowships
2015 Awarded the Tierney Fellowship Award
2014 Awarded the Cecil Skotnes Scholarship award from the Michaelis School of Fine Art.
2014 Awarded Scholarship from the Centre for Curating the Archive for materials.
2013 Deans Merit list at the University of Cape Town
2013 Chosen to participate in the Sasol New Signatures Competition.
Media
https://artthrob.co.za/2020/06/05/sense-of-place-on-sitaara-stodel-themba-khumalo-and-mj-lourens/
https://bubblegumclub.co.za/art-and-culture/two-trees-an-evocation-of-feeling-and-memory/
https://artafricamagazine.org/investec-cape-town-art-fair-19-sitaara-stodel-smith/
https://visi.co.za/artists-we-love-sitaara-stodel/
https://bubblegumclub.co.za/art-and-culture/unpacking-feelings-displacement/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTkgq1Wrstk&t=38s&ab_channel=BubblegumClubTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e5B_RKMBJk&t=4s&ab_channel=ARTMEETSTV