Penny Siopis
South African · b. 1953 · Painter, Printmaker
Penny Siopis is a South African artist from Cape Town. She was born in Vryburg in the North West province from Greek parents who had moved after inheriting a bakery from Siopis… (Wikipedia)
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Record prices
Al FrescoStrauss & Co · ZAR 3,431,250≈ $209,787≈ £155,755≈ €180,322Sign up to see
Act I Scene IIStrauss & Co · ZAR 1,138,000≈ $77,725≈ £59,396≈ €71,158Sign up to see
CakeStrauss & Co · ZAR 852,600≈ $73,119≈ £52,094≈ €58,664Sign up to see
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Penny Siopis is a South African artist from Cape Town. She was born in Vryburg in the North West province from Greek parents who had moved after inheriting a bakery from Siopis maternal grandfather. Siopis studied Fine Arts at Rhodes University in Makhanda, completing her master's degree in 1976, after which she pursued postgraduate studies at Portsmouth Polytechnic in the United Kingdom. She taught Fine Arts at the Technikon Natal in Durban from 1980 to 1983. In 1984 she took up a lectureship at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. During this time she was also visiting research fellow at the University of Leeds (1992–93) and visiting professor in fine arts at Umeå University in Sweden (2000) as part of an interinstitutional exchange. With an honorary doctorate from Rhodes University, Makhanda – Siopis is currently honorary professor at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
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Also known as Penelope Siopis
Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0). See data sources & attribution.