Mia Chaplin (b.1990 South Africa) is a painter who lives and works in Cape Town. Working in oil on canvas and paper, her highly expressive works are characterised by their rich impasto surfaces and visible brushstrokes.
Since completing her BFA at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town in 2011, Chaplin has hosted two solo exhibitions, Under a Boiling River (2017) and Binding Forms (2016), with WHATIFTHEWORLD. She has also recently extended her painting practice into printmaking, hosting a mini-exhibition of monotypes from the series, The Making of a Sharp Blade (2017), in collaboration with Warren Editions, Cape Town. Chaplin has completed artist residency programmes at Cité Internationale Des Artes in the Marais district, Paris (2018), Nirox Arts Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa (2016) and at OBRAS Foundation in Alentejo, Portugal (2015)
Since completing her BFA at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town in 2011, Chaplin has hosted two solo exhibitions, Under a Boiling River (2017) and Binding Forms (2016), with WHATIFTHEWORLD. She has also recently extended her painting practice into printmaking, hosting a mini-exhibition of monotypes from the series, The Making of a Sharp Blade (2017), in collaboration with Warren Editions, Cape Town. Chaplin has completed artist residency programmes at Cité Internationale Des Artes in the Marais district, Paris (2018), Nirox Arts Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa (2016) and at OBRAS Foundation in Alentejo, Portugal (2015)
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Mia Chaplin screen printing at Black River Studio
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Selection of recent exhibitions:
2019 Underbelly - No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL (SOLO)
Measures of poetry - Bogardenkapel Brugge, curated by Jan van Woensel, Brugge, BE
Outside – RBK Contemporary, Cape Town, SA
2018 Mouth – WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, SA (SOLO)
Showroom, Galerie extérieure at Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
A letter to my 22 year-old self – BKHZ, Johannesburg, SA
Nano – Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, SA
2017 Under a Boiling River – WHATIFTHEWORLD, Johannesburg, SA (SOLO)
Nano – Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, SA
The Making of a Sharp Blade – Warren Editions, Cape Town, SA
You Leave Me with This? – No End Contemporary, Johannesburg, SA
Lady Garden – Cavalli Wine Estate, Cape Town, SA
2016 Binding Forms – WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, SA (SOLO)
Cape Flower Show – The Castle, Cape Town, SA
Nano – Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, SA
Sewing Paradise – Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, SA
South African Art Exhibition – Galerie Patries van Dorst, Wassenaar, NL
NMAG’s Tehran pop-up, Tehran, IR
2015 New Voices 01 – WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, SA
Out of Context – UJ Art Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
Paint it Black – Salon91, Cape Town, SA
Surface: Emerging South African Painters – Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, SA
Art & Talk at Jones Day, No Man’s Art Gallery, Shanghai, CH
2014 Ceremony, Salon 91, Cape Town, SA (SOLO)
SA Art Now Now – No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2013 In Good Company – Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, SA
Collections and Archives – Salon 91, Cape Town, SA
2012 Impression: Sunset – Salon 91, Cape Town, SA
2011 No Place, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, SA (SOLO)
2019 Underbelly - No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL (SOLO)
Measures of poetry - Bogardenkapel Brugge, curated by Jan van Woensel, Brugge, BE
Outside – RBK Contemporary, Cape Town, SA
2018 Mouth – WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, SA (SOLO)
Showroom, Galerie extérieure at Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
A letter to my 22 year-old self – BKHZ, Johannesburg, SA
Nano – Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, SA
2017 Under a Boiling River – WHATIFTHEWORLD, Johannesburg, SA (SOLO)
Nano – Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, SA
The Making of a Sharp Blade – Warren Editions, Cape Town, SA
You Leave Me with This? – No End Contemporary, Johannesburg, SA
Lady Garden – Cavalli Wine Estate, Cape Town, SA
2016 Binding Forms – WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, SA (SOLO)
Cape Flower Show – The Castle, Cape Town, SA
Nano – Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, SA
Sewing Paradise – Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, SA
South African Art Exhibition – Galerie Patries van Dorst, Wassenaar, NL
NMAG’s Tehran pop-up, Tehran, IR
2015 New Voices 01 – WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, SA
Out of Context – UJ Art Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
Paint it Black – Salon91, Cape Town, SA
Surface: Emerging South African Painters – Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, SA
Art & Talk at Jones Day, No Man’s Art Gallery, Shanghai, CH
2014 Ceremony, Salon 91, Cape Town, SA (SOLO)
SA Art Now Now – No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2013 In Good Company – Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, SA
Collections and Archives – Salon 91, Cape Town, SA
2012 Impression: Sunset – Salon 91, Cape Town, SA
2011 No Place, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, SA (SOLO)