Kyra
Simoné Papé Holz a young South African artist, born in 1993, and
raised in Johannesburg focuses her practice on drawing, sculpture and
printmaking. She is an abstract artist with a particular interest in
materiality.
She
has her Master of Arts in Fine Arts by Research (2018) as well as a
Bachelor of Arts in Fine arts Degree from the University of
Witwatersrand (2015).
As
the Robert Hodgins award winner (2014) she went on to jointly achieve
the Top Achievers award in the Fourth Year Fine Arts Department at the
University of Witwatersrand (2015). She was a sculpture finalist in the
PPC Imaginarium awards (2016) as well as being nominated by Artist Press
for the Queen Sonja Print Award (2017).
Her sculpture was selected for the top 100 in the Absa Atelier, Give Art Light Exhibition (2018).
In
2019 her work, Average (11.9 | 6), was purchased for the Modern Arts
Projects collection, and she went on a six-week residency through SAFFCA
at Entabeni Farm in Knysna with artist Fatima Tayob Moosa. In 2020, she
was selected as one of the artists commissioned to make a work for Art
Bank South Africa. Most recently Papé Holz was selected as one of the
finalists for Sasol New Signatures – Expressions unbound (2023).
Throughout
her studies and practice as an artist, she has participated in numerous
group exhibitions, fairs and has had a Solo Exhibition, Transude, in completion of her Master in Art, Fine Art degree at The Point of Order (March 2018).
