b. 1982 Pretoria, South Africa

Zander Blom is a prominent South African artist celebrated for his dynamic and experimental approach to painting. Initially enrolling in Information Design, Blom soon left formal studies to independently pursue his passion for art, beginning with printmaking and video before dedicating himself to painting. Now based in Cape Town, he has become a significant figure in the global art scene. 

He has exhibited solo shows around the world, including Polaris and Ursa Minor at the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean in Port Louis (2017); Monochrome Paintings and Garage Party at signs and symbols, New York (2022; 2021); Monochrome works and New Works at Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (2021; 2017; 2015); Place and Space at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah and also at Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2011-12); The Black Hole Universe at Galerie van der Mieden in Antwerp and also at 5x6x9, Berlin (2010); in addition to Stevenson, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Amsterdam (2010 –25). 

In addition to a number of group shows in South Africa, including Mapping Worlds at the Norval Foundation, Cape Town (2019) and Assessing Abstraction at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2018), Blom has been included in group shows such as Gestalt & Becoming at Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph, Berlin (2016), Material Matters: New Art from Africa at the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean in Port Louis (2015); Handle with Care!, the ninth Ostrale International Exhibition of Contemporary Art at the Ostrale Centre in Dresden (2015). 

In 2014 Blom won the third Jean-François Prat Prize for contemporary art in Paris. In 2016 Blom showed work on a group exhibition as part of the fifth edition of the prize at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Blom is included in Phaidon’s anthology of contemporary painting: Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting (2016), and his second catalogue Raissoné: Paintings: Volume II, with an essay by Nicola Trezzi was released December 2016.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Mondrian drawings, Stevenson, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

2024 Monochrome Paintings, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

2023 Garage Sale, The Vault, Silo Hotel Cape Town, South Africa

Monochrome Paintings, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2022 Monochrome Paintings, signs and symbols, New York, USA Monochrome Paintings, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

2021 Monochrome works, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany

Garage Party, signs and symbols, New York, USA

2020 Garage-ism, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2019 New paintings, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

2018 Paintings and Posters, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2017 New Works, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany

Polaris and Ursa Minor, Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis, Mauritius

2016 New Paintings, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2015 New Works, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany

2014 New Paintings, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2013 New Paintings, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

2012 New Paintings, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

Place and Space, Trois Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

2011 New Paintings, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

Place and Space, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA

2010 The Black Hole Universe, Galerie van der Mieden, Antwerp, Belgium

Paintings. Drawings. Photos, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

The Black Hole Universe: Mapping the Void, 5x6x9 Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2009 The Travels of Bad, Rooke Gallery, Johannesburg; Whatiftheworld, Cape Town, South Africa

2008 The Drain of Progress, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town, South Africa

2007 The Drain of Progress, Rooke Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

The Drain of Progress (drawings and album launch), The Premises, Johannesburg;

Whatiftheworld, Cape Town, South Africa

2006 Sounds and Pictures, The Premises, Johannesburg, South Africa

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 A Beast with Two Backs, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa

2024 When Works Meet, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2023 The Artist List, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

Full House: Fede Arthouse and Under Projects, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa 

The Clubhouse, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

2022 Where do I begin, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

We Paint!, Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

2021 Works on Paper, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa Stevenson and Chill, Stevenson, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2019 Mapping Worlds: Selected Works from the Scheryn Art Collection, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa

2018 9 More Weeks, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

Both, and, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

Assessing Abstraction, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town

2017 A Painting Today, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2016 Jean-François Prat Prize, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Home Truths: Domestic Interiors in South Africa, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Exchange, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany 

Gestalt & Becoming, Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph, Berlin, Germany

2015 Material Matters: New Art from Africa, Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis, Mauritius

Handle with Care!, 9th Ostrale International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Ostrale Centre, Dresden, Germany

January, Mixed Greens, New York, USA

Schema, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2014 Thinking, Feeling, Head, Heart, The New Church Museum, Cape Town, South Africa 

Prix Jean-François Prat, Bredin Prat, Paris, France

Chroma, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2013 A Sculptural Premise, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

The Evolution of Art 1830-2140, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany

2012 Africa and Abstraction – Johannesburg: Blom, Hlobo, Nitegeka, Rhode, Stevenson booth, Art Basel Miami Beach, USA

Africa and Abstraction: Mancoba, Odita, Blom, Stevenson booth, Art Basel, Switzerland

2011 The Global Contemporary: Art worlds after 1989, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany

Geography of Somewhere, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

Alptraum!, Ausstellungsraum des Deutscher Kuenstlerbund eV, Berlin, Germany; The Company, Los Angeles, USA; blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

2010 Ampersand, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

Residency exhibition, Red Bull House of Art, São Paulo, Brazil

Black, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

Why Not?, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, South Africa

2008 Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa .ZA: Young art from South Africa, Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena, Italy

2007 Paper Placemats (ATL), ACP Public Art Program, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Same Places, Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom, South Africa

2006 Ten, The Premises, Johannesburg, South Africa

All Creatures Great and Small, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town, South Africa

2005 DWG, Outlet, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa

Group Therapy, Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2004 ...etc (part 2), ArtCoZa Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

...etc (part 1), Artspace, Johannesburg, South Africa