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
2011 ‘readymade/found object’, Convaction House, Johannesburg. Sober & Lonely Institute
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 ‘Inhabitant’ with Sello Pesa, iDANS 05, Istanbul
2011 ‘Teka Munyaki’, with Sello Pesa, Johannesburg
2011 ‘Tshwene Ga ipone Makopo’ with Sello Pesa, JSE, Johannesburg
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
2012 ‘A.R.T. Show’, Traveling Exhibition.
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

AWARDS
2011 Inhabitant was awarded iDANS Critical Endeavour Award in Istanbul.

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2009 Durban ICC ARENA, Durban

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Durban Art Gallery

RESIDENCIES/ EXCHANGES
2011 Crossing # 2, Johannesburg
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
2011 Drama for life, Hillbrow Theatre, Johannesburg
2011 Vent, Sasolburg
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, living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has participated in several group shows nationally (Being Here 2005, SAartsEMERGING 2007, Light Show 2008, Social Patterns 2009 and Collaborations/Articulations 2011). Following his 2005 show Spill Light - presented as part of the KZNSA Gallery's Young Artists Project and curated by Storm Janse van Rensberg - his first solo exhibition, situation, was held at Bank Gallery, Durban in 2009 and travelled to the AVA in Cape Town in 2010.

Sadie completed his MFA in 2009 at the Durban University of Technology and was a full time lecture at Vega The Brand Communications School for six years. 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 2010 Sadie traveled to Holland with Jay Pather's, Body of Evidence. Sadie has been awarded two residencies: one at the Bag Factory Artist Studios, Johannesburg (2010); and the second with Twenty Ten Reasons to Live In a Small Town, in Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal (2010-2011).

Since 2010, Sadie has become increasingly interested in the role that artificial light has on our perception of the spaces we occupy. In response Sadie has developed several ongoing projects: a website VAUGHN SADIE| STREETLIGHTS that maps the streetlights of the city of Johannesburg as a means of developing an alternative way of perceiving and engaging with a city. Inhabitant, a collaboration with performer Sello Pesa, which explores the impact of artificial light on the body as it moves through urban spaces. Inhabitant was awarded iDANS Critical Endeavour Award for 2011 at the annual festival held in Istanbul.