Berni Searle

Selected bibliography

  • Atkinson, Brenda (ed). WASH, limited edition artist magazine. Chalkham Hill Press, Rivonia, 1999

  • Bedford, Emma. 'Berni Searle' in Staking Claims: Confronting Cape Town. South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 1999 (exhibition catalogue)
  • Bedford, Emma. '"What's it Mean?" The Cairo Biennale' in co@rtnews. February 1999
  • Bester, Rory. 'Floating Free' in Float, Standard Bank Young Artist 2003. Standard Bank, Johannesburg and Bell-Roberts Publishing, Cape Town, 2003 (exhibition catalogue)
  • Bester, Rory. 'Domesticate Yourself' in The Field's Edge: Africa, Diaspora, Lens. USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Rory Bester and Amanda Carlson (eds), 2003 (exhibition catalogue - pending)
  • Bester, Rory. 'Interview with Berni Searle' in The Field's Edge: Africa, Diaspora, Lens. USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Rory Bester and Amanda Carlson (eds), 2003 (exhibition catalogue)
  • Borcila, Rozalinda. 'The Field's Edge: Africa, Diaspora, Lens' in Art South Africa, Vol 1, Issue 3, Autumn 2003

  • Castello, Silvia. 'Singolare Femminile' in Elle, December 2002
  • Coombes, Annie. 'Memories are Made of This' in Berni Searle: Fresh. South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 2003
  • Coombes, Annie. 'Skin Deep/Bodies of Evidence. The Work of Berni Searle' in Authentic/Ex-centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art. Forum for African Arts, Salah Hassan and Olu Oguibe (eds), 2001 (exhibition catalogue)
  • Coombes, Annie. 'New Subjectivities for the New Nation' in History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa. Duke University Press, 2003

  • Faber, Paul and Van der Merwe, Annari (eds). Group Portrait South Africa. Kwela Books, Cape Town and KIT publishers, Amsterdam, 2002 (exhibition catalogue)
  • Farrell, Laurie Ann. 'CON/TEXT + I.D. OLOGY' in Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Spring/Summer 2003, pp100-101 (exhibition review)
  • Farrell, Laurie Ann. 'Still: Berni Searle at Axis Gallery' on ArtThrob, www.artthrob.co.za, November 2001 (exhibition review)

  • Hassan, Salah. Insertion, Self and Other. Apex Art, New York, 2000 (exhibition brochure)

  • Jacobson, Heidi. Berni Searle/MATRIX 202 A Matter of Time. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, 2003 (exhibition brochure)
  • Jones, Kellie. 'Life's Little Necessities' in Trade Routes, History and Geography. Africus Institute for Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, 1997 (exhibition catalogue)

  • Khan, Sharlene. 'Berni Searle' in 10 Years, 100 Artists. Bell-Roberts Publishing, Cape Town, 2004
  • Kley, Elisabeth. 'Mystical Cosmetics: Oliver Herring, Stephen Dean, Berni Searle' in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, PAJ 72, Volume 24, Number 3, September 2002

  • Lewis, Desiree. 'The Conceptual work of Berni Searle' in Agenda, October 2001

  • MacRitchie, Lynn. 'Out of Africa into the limelight' in Financial Times, June 2001
  • Millis, Christopher. 'Race Results' in The Boston Phoenix, 6 May 2003
  • Minnaar, Melvyn. 'Powerful look at issues of identity, race and gender' in The Cape Times, 14 February 2003
  • Murinik, Tracy. 'Home and Away' in Art South Africa, Vol 1, Issue 2, Summer 2002, pg13
  • Murinik, Tracy. 'Colour Me: Berni Searle' in Towards-Transit: New Visual Languages in South Africa. Pro Helvetia, Zurich and Cape Town, 1999 (exhibition catalogue)
  • Murinik, Tracy . 'Berni Searle' in NKA Journal of Contemporary Art, Spring/Summer 2001
  • Murinik, Tracy. 'State of the Art' in Leadership, May 2000
  • Murinik, Tracy. 'More than Skin Deep' in Mail & Guardian, April 30 - May 4, 1999
  • Murinik, Tracy. Colour Me. Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town, 1999 (exhibition brochure)

  • Nolte, Jacqueline. Juncture. Cape Town, 2000 (exhibition catalogue)

  • O'Sullivan, Michael. 'On Exhibit' in The Washington Post, January 12 2001, p43

  • Pollak, Lloyd. 'Through a Glass Darkly: A Vision of Womanhood under Threat' in The Cape Times, 11 October 1999, p7
  • Pollack, Barbara. 'The New Look of Feminism' in ARTnews, September 2001
  • Pollack, Barbara. 'The Newest Avant-Garde' in ARTnews, April 2001

  • Searle, Berni. 'Julle Moet Nou Trek' in Bloodlines/Bloedlyn. Lien Botha (ed), Cape Town, 1999 (exhibition catalogue)
  • Smith, Kathryn. 'Conversing with Pain: Berni Searle's Darker Shades of Light' in FNB Vita Art Prize 2000. Sandton Civic Gallery, 2000 (exhibition catalogue)
  • Smith, Roberta. 'Berni Searle' in The New York Times, 12 October 2001

  • Van Bosch, Cobus. 'Pikante kuns gemaak met lyf en speserye' in Die Burger, 10 May 1999
  • Van Bosch, Cobus. 'Kapenaar vereer op Kairo Biennale' in Die Burger, 27 January 1999
  • Van Bosch, Cobus. 'Berni Searle Presteer op Dak'Art 2000' in Die Burger, 22 May 2000
  • Van der Watt, Liese. 'Disappearing Act' in Art South Africa, Vol 1, Issue 4, Winter 2003, pp22-28
  • Van der Watt, Liese. 'Identity's Lack, Identity's excess: two works by Berni Searle and Minnette Vári' in A Decade of Democracy (exhibition catalogue). South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 2004
  • Van der Watt, Liese. 'Shifting the Self, Contesting the Body: the art of Berni Searle' in Artes Mundi. Tessa Jackson (ed), 2004 (exhibition catalogue)
  • Vetrocq, Marcia E. 'Biennale Babylon' in Art in America, September 2001
  • Von Grebner, Fabbrizio. 'A Modern Medusa' in The Cape Times, 5 March 1999, p3

  • Williamson, Sue. 'Staking Claims: Confronting Cape Town' in NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, Fall/ Winter 2000