Lyndi Sales

Untitled I

2021

Lyndi Sales is an artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. She has been creating a series of installations and artworks for the past 16 years. Her constructions made of intricately cut Perspex, paper, rubber, fabric and stone often shed light on the fragile nature of our existence and temporality. She has held solo shows internationally at Galerie Maria Lund in Paris, Toomey Tourell in San Francisco and M Contemporary in Sydney. And locally in South Africa at the Goodman Gallery, Everard Read and Whitiftheworld galleries. She has participated in numerous group shows in South Africa, USA, Austria, UK, Holland, Germany, Denmark and Australia. Her works can be found in major collections locally and internationally. Such as: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, USA Library of Congress, Washington, D.C, USA New York Public Library, USA FRAC de la Haute Normandie (Regional Contemporary Art Foundation for Upper Normandie) Société Générale Art Foundation, France Various private collections locally and abroad University of Northern Illinois, Dekalb, USA McGill University, Montreal, Canada Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection, Florida Atlantic University, USA Red Bull, Austria ABSA, Ernst and Young, Hollard, Santam, Sasol, South African Breweries, Telkom, Nando and UCT Jack Ginsberg artist book collection, South Africa Sales has taught as a visiting lecturer at Michaelis School of fine art, University of Cape Town and University of Stellenbosch. Sales represented South Africa at the 2011 Venice Biennale. She was a merit award winner in the ABSA Atelier, a recipient of the Vermont Studio Center grant and participated in residencies at the Vermont studio center as well as the Frans Masereel Center in Belgium.