EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Durban Institute of Technology

Masters Degree of Technology in Fine Arts – 2009 (Distinction)
Bachelors Degree of Technology in Fine Arts – 2003 (cum laude)

CURATORSHIP

2010 ‘Performing the streetlamp’, The Bag factory, Johannesburg
2010 ‘Conflicting Context’, The Durban Art Gallery, Durban
2008 ‘Light Show ’, co-curated, Bank Gallery
2006 ‘Miscellaneous’, Vega Lectures Exhibition, KZNSA
2005 ‘Intersection’, Red Eye, co-curated, Durban Art Gallery
2005 ‘Phantasmagoria”, Vega Lectures Exhibition, ArtSpacedurban

EXHIBITIONS

One person shows

2010 ‘situation’, AVA, Cape Town
2010 ‘untitled (sleep state), Main Street Life, Johannesburg
2010 ‘vaughn sadie|streetlights’, The Bag factory, Johannesburg
2009 ‘situation’, Bank Gallery, Durban
2006 ‘100m sprint’, Parking Gallery, Johannesburg
2005 ‘Spill light’, Young Artists Project, KZNSA Gallery, Durban
2003 ‘Talisman[s]’, Installation, The Cupboard Gallery, Durban

Collaborations

2011 ‘unit for measure III’ with Bronwyn Lace and Mary Corrigall, FADA Gallery, Johannesburg
2011 ‘frequency, lumens, place’ with Dean Henning, The ABSA KKNK, Oudshoorn
2011 ‘Inhabitant’ with Sello Pesa, Goethe on Main, Johannesburg
2011 ‘Dundee : Living within History’ with Neil Coppen, Dundee, KwaZulu Natal

2010 ‘frequency, lumens, place’ with Dean Henning, The Durban Art Gallery, Durban
2010 ‘Qaphela Ceaser’, with Jay Pather, Cape Town
2010 ‘Body of Evidence’, with Jay Pather, The Haag, Netherlands

2009 ‘unit for measure’, with Bronwyn Lace The Durban Art Gallery, Durban & Sci-Bono and The Bag Factory, Johannesburg
2009 ‘Body of Evidence’, with Jay Pather, Grahamstown and The Playhouse, Durban.

2008 ‘Body of Evidence’, with Jay Pather, Johannesburg

2005 ‘Beautiful ones are not yet born’, with Jay Pather, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg

Group shows

2011 ‘VANSA Two Thousand and Ten Reasons to live in a Small Town’, Goethe on Main, Johannesburg
2011 ‘Collaborations/Articulations’, FADA Gallery, Johannesburg
2011 The ABSA KKNK, Oudshoorn

2009 ‘Summer Salon’, UCA Gallery, Cape Town
2009 ‘Social Pattern’, AVA, Cape Town

2008 ‘Human Insides’, Durban
2008 ‘Light Show ’, Bank Gallery, Durban

2007 'Ball Sports’, AVA, Cape Town
2007 ‘Blindspaces’, Durban and Bella Horizontia
2007 ‘7’, KZNSA, Durban
2007 ‘KO Video Festival’, Mexico City, Mexico
2007 ‘From here to there’, AVA, Cape Town
2007 ‘SAartsEmerging’ Exhibition, Vega, Cape Town

2006 ‘Miscellaneous’, Vega Lectures Exhibition, KZNSA
2006 ‘SAartsEmerging’ Exhibition, The Bag factory, Johannesburg
2006 ‘Access Denied’, Red Eye Art, Durban Art Gallery

2005 ‘KO Video Festival’, Various Venues, Durban
2005 ‘Paean to Paint’, ArtSpacedurban
2005 ‘Phantasmagoria, ArtSpacedurban
2005 ‘Being here’, KZNSA Gallery

2004 ‘Negotiate’, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
2004 'Points and Pixels', KZNSA Gallery
2004 ‘Republic’, Jomba, ArtSpacedurban
2004 Absa Ateliers, Absa Gallery, Johannesburg
2004 ‘Ten Year of Democracy’, Red Eye Art, Durban Art Gallery

2003 ‘Dance Quickies’, Jomba, KZNSA Gallery

2002 ‘Pleasure Dome’, Red Eye Art, Durban City Hall
2002 ‘Red Eye Art’, Durban Art Gallery
2002 Durban Designer Emporium, BAT Centre

2001 ‘Red Eye Art’, Durban Art Gallery

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2009 Durban ICC ARENA, Durban

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Durban Art Gallery

RESIDENCIES/ EXCHANGES

2010 Twenty Ten Reasons To Live In A Small Town, with Neil Coppen, Dundee
2010 Bag Factory Artists Studio, Johannesburg
2004 Paint is Powerful/ Art for Humanity, Amsterdam

WORKSHOPS

2010 ‘Performing the streetlamp’, The Bag factory, Johannesburg

2009 ‘unit for measure’, The Durban Art Gallery, Durban and The Bag Factory, Johannesburg
2009 Spier Contemporary Performance Workshops. Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg

2008 Spier Performing Arts Workshops, Cape Town

2007 Spier Contemporary Performance Workshops. Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg
2007 South African Sugar Association. World HIV/Aids Day collage workshop

PUBLIC PRESENTATION

2011 Alternative Archiving, South African Museum Association,Eshowe
2010 Colour Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown

Vaughn Sadie is a conceptual artist and educator. He has participated in several group shows nationally (Being Here 2005, SAartsEMERGING 2007, Light Show 2008 and Social Patterns 2009). Following his 2005 show Spill light, presented as part of the KZNSA Gallery's Young Artists Project, curated by Storm Janse van Rensberg, his first solo exhibition, situation, was held at Bank Gallery in 2009 and travelled to the AVA in Cape Town in 2010. Sadie's interest in the role and function of artificial light has seen him facilitate light workshops with Jay Pather for the Spier Contemporary Performance Workshops in 2007/9. In 2009 Sadie completed his MFA at the Durban University of Technology and was a full time lecture at Vega The Brand Communications School for six years. In 2010 Sadie traveled to Holland with Jay Pather's, Body of Evidence and was awarded two residencies one at the Bag Factory Artist Studios, Johannesburg and the second with Twenty Ten Reasons To Live In A Small Town, in Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal.