Evan Penny (South African, 1953)

Evan Penny

South African | 1953

Evan Penny is a South African Postwar & Contemporary sculptor who was born in 1953. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Art Gallery of Hamilton have featured Evan Penny's work in the past.Evan Penny's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 250 USD to 145,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 145,000 USD for L. Faux: Black & White, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2008. Evan Penny has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, Toronto Star and Artes Magazine. The most recent article is Is It Possible to Capture a Sense of Wonder? A New Art Exhibit Gives It a Shot written for The Globe and Mail in December 2023.

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Past Exhibitions

WONDER: The Real, the Surreal, and the Fantastic

Art Gallery of Hamilton
Hamilton | Ontario | Canada
Sep 23,2023 - Jan 07,2024

I am Nobody. Are You Nobody Too?

Meşher
Beyoglu | Istanbul | Turkey
Sep 14,2022 - Feb 12,2023

Augustus

Clint Roenisch Gallery
Toronto | Ontario | Canada
Aug 04,2022 - Sep 03,2022

Articles

Is It Possible to Capture a Sense of Wonder? A New Art Exhibit Gives It a Shot
Academy Art Museum Shows Significant Works in 'Fickle Mirror: Dialogues in Self-Portraiture'
In ‘Outside the Palace of Me,’ Shary Boyle Captures the Glamour of the Stage While Inviting Us to Be Part of the Show

Coverage

..Penny pushes the limits of figural representation through distortions of stretching, skewing, exaggerated scale and the effect of time on self-perception...

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..Since his first solo exhibition in 1981, Penny’s work has been exhibited throughout Canada and abroad...

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