Penny Siopis
2024 Hyperalleric Penny

13 November 2024
Hyperallergic

Yota Batsaki and Jean-Christophe Maur review For Dear Life, Penny Siopis's retrospective at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, concluding, 'cultural amnesia about past violence and its ongoing legacies is harder to maintain in the presence of Siopis’s haunting entanglement of the body in history.'

New Frame, March 2021

'So, what does it mean to tend to shame? For Siopis, it is to highlight its birthplaces as well as its possibilities. After all, shame may be a constant political and personal haunting, but its relational textures enable the possibility of empathy and transformation': Pumla Dineo Gqola reflects on Penny Siopis' discussions of shame, across film and painting.

Material Acts, 2020

Sean O'Toole observes 'generative tensions', ' vital signifiers' and 'ruptures of containment' in a series of engagements with Siopis' studio, focusing on the interconnectedness of her theory and practice.

Daily Maverick, May 2018

'Penny Siopis' exhibit at the Zeitz MOCAA explores some of history’s untold narratives through film, music, and primary sources': interview and profile by Adam Yates 

Mail and Guardian, August 2017

'In manifesting this openness, dispelling mystique and leaving room for scrutiny, Siopis exercises another of the key concerns of her practice — exploring the poetics and generative power of vulnerability' writes Olga Speakes about Open Form/Open Studio, Siopis' residency project at the Maitland Institute.

Wanted Magazine, March 2015

'A personal narrative': Sean O'Toole profiles Penny Siopis on the occasion of her 35-year career survey exhibition Time and Again at the Iziko South African National Gallery and Wits Art Museum

The Times, May 2015

'Paste master: The discourse of disorder': A review of Siopis' Time and Again at Wits Art Museum, by Graham Wood

Frieze Magazine, March 2015

'Time and Again gorgously lays bare the repetitions at the core of Siopis' practice' writes Sean O'Toole on Siopis' 35-year career survey exhibition at the Iziko South African National Gallery 

Cape Times, February 2015

'Gut level response: Subverting history painting': Lucinda Jolly on Time and Again at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town

Time and Again, 2014

Time and Again, 2014

Time and Again, 2014
Jennifer Law  provides commentary on the themes of sexuality, subjectivity, social conflict and agency in Penny Siopis' Cake Paintings

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