GREG STREAK
JAMES GREGORY STREAK
348 Manning Rd, Glenwood Durban, 4001, South Africa
+ 27 84 568 8902
greg@iburst.co.za
1971 : Born Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
EDUCATION / RESIDENCIES
2007 : Ampersand Fellowship (November / December – New York)
2005 : Blind Spaces – Belo Horizonte / Sao Paulo, Brazil. Guest filmmaker and
conference speaker.
2004 : The South Project – Melbourne, Australia – guest speaker
2003 (July) : Workshop /conference – Jakarta Video Festival (Indonesia)
2002 (December) : Trama Workshop, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2002 (April) : Further Up in the Air, Liverpool, UK
2000 (Oct.) : Open Circle , Mumbai, India
1997- 1998 : Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
1995 - 1996 : Masters Degree : Fine Art (MFA), Technikon Natal, Durban, South Africa
(Distinction)
1993 - 1994 : Work as full-time assistant to Andries Botha
1992 - 1993 : National Higher Diploma : Fine Art - Technikon Natal, Durban, South Africa -
(Distinction)
1989 - 1991 : National Diploma : Fine Art - Technikon Natal, Durban, South Africa
1988 : Matriculated - Durban High School (with exemption)
AWARDS
2006 : Awarded the Ampersand Fellowship (Nov / Dec 2007 – New York)
2003 : Joint winner of the public sculpture commission : Prophet Isaiah Shembe
1997 - 1998 : International Bursary from Department of Arts, Culture, Science and
Technology, South Africa.
1996 : Finalist for Emma Smith International Bursary
1995: Joint winner : National Arts Youth Festival
1994: Winner - Durban Arts Festival (visual arts)
1993 : Merit Award and scholarship - Technikon Natal for Masters study (Highest
Aggregate - School of Arts
1993 : Winner - Natal Post “Young Achiever Award” : sculpture proposal
1993 : Merit (2nd) - Durban Arts Festival (visual arts)
1992 -1993 : Honours study (distinction)
1991 : Recipient - Emma Smith Bursary (Honours study); Art History Prize ;
distinction - sculpture.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 : Drift two person show with Ledelle Moe at the 1708 Gallery, Washington, U.S.A
2006 : 21st Durban International Film Festival : Official Selection and Special Mention
Jury Awad with first full feature documentary film : Beauty and the Beasts (78’ 31”)
2006 : De Grote Oversteek – Stedilijk Museum, Zwolle (Moshekwa Lange, Gregg Smith)
2006 : Shared Histories / Decolonising the Image – Arti De Amiticae, Amsterdam
2006 : Nie Meer – De Warende Turnhout – Belgium (Robin Rhode, Candice Breitz, Tracy
Rose, Mustafa Maluka etc.)
2005 : KO Video – First Durban Video Festival – self initiated festival and participant
along with 300 other video works from 28 different countries (Johan Grimonprez,
Tracy Emin, William Kentridge, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Owen Oppenheimer…)
2005 : KKNK – klein karoo fesitval
2005 : Drill Hall – Johannesburg (opening) commissioned work.
2004 : San Francisco Video Festival
2004 : HIV(E) : Franchise Gallery, Johannesburg (self-curated – PULSE project)
(Sofia Garciavieyra (argentina), Ade Darmawan (Indonesia, Paul Edmunds (SA)
2003 : VIDEO BRAZIL – Single Channel (Minnette Vari, Andries Botha, Virginia
Mackenny)
2003 : OK Video -Jakarta Video Festival (curator: Greg Streak) Greg Streak, Stephen
Hobbs, Kathryn Smith, Jose Ferreira
2002 : Silence - self-curated exhibition – Nieubethesda, South Africa (Bharti Kher,
Adriana Lestido, Marco Paulo Rolla, Luan Nel …)
2002 : Violence – self-curated exhibition N.S.A. Gallery, Durban, South Africa (Adriana
Lestido, Marco Paulo Rolla, Paul Edmunds …)
2002 : Outpost 11 – US Gallery, Stellenbosch
2002 : “7” group Video show : Lakeen Gallery, Mumbai , India
2001 : World Wide Video Festival - Amsterdam, Holland
2001 : South : voyages into mutant technologies - (Eder Santos, Marcello Dantes,
Lucas Bambozzi) - curator : Jose Ferreira – Portuguese Cultural Centre –
Maputo, Mozambique
2001 : rest and motion (Klein Karoo Arts Festival) – curator : Kathryn Smith
2000 : ‘open-circuit’ – self-curated exhibition N.S.A. Gallery, Durban, South Africa
(Mark Bain, Isaac Carlos, Stephen Hobbs, Jeremy Wafer…)
2000 : 4 person exhibition Lakeen Art Gallery : Mumbai, India
2000 : !Xoe2 …Off-Site Bell-Roberts Contemporary, Cape-Town, South Africa.
2000 : A.r.e.a. 2000: Reykjavik Art Museum - Iceland (curated by Gavin Younge)
1999 : Video Views : with William Kentridge, Clive van der Berg, Tracy Rose, Malcolm
Payne, Kendell Geers, Penny Siopis and Randolph Hartzenberg at the South
African NationalGallery, Capetown (curator : Emma Bedford)
1999 : The Mind on Scale : The Lava Edge - with Mark Dion, Ashley Bickerton, Daniel
Noguiera, Pippiloti Rist, Jeroen Kooijmans etc.) at Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
(curator : Christine Sluysmans)
1998 : Open Ateliers : Rikjsakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
1998 : Semi - Detached : Group exhibition, Toadsmoor Mill, Stroud, U.K.
1998 : DIS - EASE : Axiom Gallery, Cheltenham, U.K.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2002 : Art SA Editions 1-2
2001: Flash Art : Group review – May / June 2001 p. 81
2001 : Artthrob Artists of 2000 : Artthrob : January 2001
2000: !Xoe2 … Off-site review : Paul Edmunds (artthrob 29.11.00)
2000 : Open-Circuit – review : Paul Edmunds (artthrob nov, 2000)
2000 : ‘Divine’ – review : Virginia Mackenny (artthrob 05.04.00)
1999 : “At last, video as art and here at home” - Benita Munitz,
Cape Times (15/04/99), P 10.
1998 : “Shapes echo our culture” - Gloucestershire Echo - March 1998
1998 : South African Art - Eurocentric Influence? - Anne Kanneworff,
Psychology thesis proposal, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1997 : South Africa in Colour - Stadparkspaviljoen, Groningen,Netherlands - catalogue
1995 : “Themes of Exile and Dislocation in the work of Marlene Dumas and
James Gregory Streak” - MFA thesis , Technikon Natal Library
1996 : “Some Man-Made Objects” - review - Dan Cook (Sunday Tribune : 24 November
1996)
1996 : “Searching for identity...” - Marianne Meijer (The Mercury : 13 November 1996)
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1996 : Stuttgart meets Durban, Durban meets Stuttgart - catalogue
1996 : “Durban sculptor lands the big one” - Suzy Bell (Mail and Guardian : 20-26
September)
1995 : “FLAT interview” - Siemon Allen
1995 : Volkskas Atelier, catalogue
1994 : “Images in Metal” - Elizabeth Rankin, Wits University Press, Johannesburg,South
Africa.
1993 : Momentum, catalogue
ACTIVITIES
2000: Founder member of PULSE – an artist run initiative – linked to the RAIN Network
( an international network of 6 other initiatives – India, Brazil, Argentina, Mali,
Mexico, Indonesia)
2000/01 : N.S.A Gallery Council Member (exhibitions Committee)
2000/01 : Faculty member : Department Fine Art, Technikon Natal (Video / Sculpture)
1999 : Faculty member : Department Fine Art, Technikon Natal (Video / Sculpture)
1996 : Faculty member : Departments Fine Art / Graphic Design
1995 : Faculty member : Department Fine Art
1994 : Exhibitions Technician, Durban Art Gallery, Durban South Africa
1992 : Committee member of Second National Sculpture Symposium, Durban,
South Africa
COLLECTIONS
Work is represented in numerous private and public collections both locally and abroad (eg.
Durban Art Gallery, South Africa (1994 & 1995); Thami Mnyele Foundation, Amsterdam,
Netherlands (1997); Marlene Dumas / Jan Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1998); Des
Fisher, Capetown South Africa (1992) etc. ). Sasol Art Collection (2005)
References :
Virginia Mackenny : virginiam@saol.com / Andries Botha : andries@ion.co.za