Sasson Anne
Anne Sassoon was born in North Wales, UK and grew up in Johannesburg, where she became known as a figurative artist, exhibiting at Gallery 101 and the Market Gallery. She studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art and Hornsey College of Art in London, and in 1992 received BA (Hons) Fine Art at Middlesex University, London.
During the apartheid years in South Africa, she made drawings at political trials for publication; co-curated several photography exhibitions with photographer David Goldblatt; and wrote art reviews for the Rand Daily Mail. She lived in London from 1986; showed at the Thumb Gallery and Boundary Gallery, among others; had a solo exhibition at Gallery Westland Place in 2001; showed in “Rebels and Rubies” at the Barbican Gallery in 1996. In London, she wrote art reviews for Dialogue Magazine.
She has lived in Jerusalem since 1997, when she became artist-in-residence and curator of exhibitions at Yakar Gallery; is art reviewer for The Jerusalem Report and also writes for Artcritical, New York.
Public Collections
Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
South African Constitutional Court, Johannesburg
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London
Middlesex University, London
Johannesburg Art Gallery
Durban Art Gallery
Gertrude Posel Museum, Johannesburg
Sasol Art Collection, South Africa
Omanut La’am, Israel
The national museum- Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein
Solo exhibitions
| 1970 Gallery 101, Johannesburg 1978 Market Gallery, Johannesburg 1980 Helen de Leeuw Gallery, Johannesburg 1996 Coffee Gallery, London 1996 College of the Atlantic, Maine, USA 1998 Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg 2000 Lighthouse Gallery, Jaffa 2001 “Isaac/Ishmael”, Artspace, Jerusalem 2001 Gallery Westland Place, London 2004 Eating etc, Yakar Gallery, Jerusalem 2008 Facing the Desert, Galerie Leo.Coppi, Berlin 2010 36 Views of Lion’s Head, These Four Walls, Cape Town 2010 Ghost Memory and Other Paintings, Jozi Art Lab, Johannesburg 2011 planned for November, Artspace, Jerusalem |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 1983 Sassoon, Hodgins & Bell, Carriagehouse Gallery, Johannesburg 1983 Sassoon, Hodgins & Bell, Carriage House Gallery, Johannesburg 1984 Figurative Painters, Market Gallery, Johannesburg 1985 Trienniale, South Africa 1985 Tributaries, toured South Africa and Germany 1985 Women Artists, Market Gallery, Johannesburg 1985 Wolpe Gallery, Cape Town 1988 Represented Thumb Gallery, Bath Festival, UK 1990 Six South African Painters”, Sternberg Centre, London 1996 Rubies and Rebels, Barbican Gallery, London 1996 Boundary Gallery, London 1997 Art Festival, Munich, Germany 1998 Dealing with Conflict, Houston, USA 2001 Traces – Contemporary Drawing in Israel, Artists’ House, Jerusalem 2004 Rishumim II, Artists’ House, Jerusalem 2005 Dislocated Landscape, Yakar Gallery, Jerusalem 2006 Beyond Graffiti, Bronfman Center, New York 2007 Rishumim lll, Artists’ House, Jeusalem 2007 Equal and Less Equal, Museum On The Seam, Jerusalem 2007, 2004 and 2001 Traces I, II and III, Artists House, Jerusalem 2008 Personal Space, Public Views, Yakar Gallery, Jerusalem 2008 Becoming: Visions of Childhood, Center, New York () 2010 Angaza, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town 2010 Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town |
Public Collections
Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
South African Constitutional Court, Johannesburg
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London
Middlesex University, London
Johannesburg Art Gallery
Durban Art Gallery
Gertrude Posel Museum, Johannesburg
Sasol Art Collection, South Africa
Omanut La’am, Israel
