About
Gerhardt Coetzee (b. 1983, Pretoria) is an Afrikaans photographer and educator based in Cape Town, South Africa.
His photographs capture ‘micro-societies’ in which the present and past converge. Their fragmented focus consecrates ‘the vernacular, strange, ordinary’.

Coetzee has received two Sony Profoto Silver awards and two Sony Profoto Gold Awards for his Openspaces series. He has received a merit award for the Sasol New Signatures competition and his work is part of the Sasol Permanent collection. Coetzee was also one of the ten finalists in the ABSA L’Atelier competition.
 
   
Exhibitions:
 
2022 - Onomatopoeia, Ron Belling Gallery, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. 
2021 - Sessions - Interlude,Victoria Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. 
2021 - Staff and Alumni, CTSP, Cape Town, South Africa
2020 - Locked in my house, COVID-19 pandemic, The Whole World. 
2019 - The Dog Show, Portrait Awards, Lensculture (online)                    
2019 - Unforseen Landscapes, PH Centre, Cape Town, South Africa 
2019 - Staff and Alumni, CTSP, Cape Town, South Africa.
2019 - FotoFilmic, JRNL 5, Bowen Island, Canada.
2018 - Eat Crow, Portrait Awards, Lensculture (online)                    
2018 - By Show of Hands, CTSP, Cape Town, South Africa.
2018 - NYC Street Photography Collective, United States
2018 - Half Tone, CTSP, Cape Town, South Africa.
2017 - Staff and Alumni, CTSP, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 - ABSA L’Atelier, ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa. 
2017 - NYC Street Photography Collective, United States                    
2016 - Collective, PH Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.
2016 - ITCH, The Creative Journal, Detection, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. 
2016 - Staff and Alumni, Cape Town School of Photography, Cape Town, South Africa
2015 - Post-koloniale Afrika, Prince Vincent Museum, KKNK Arts Festival
2015 - ABSA L’Atelier, ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2015 - Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa.
2014 - CMYK, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2014 - Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa.
2014 - ABSA L’Atelier, ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2014 - Month of Photography, The Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa
2013 - Month of Photography, The Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa
2013 - Fin, Prince Vincent Museum, KKNK Arts Festival
2013 - Fixated, Sliced Bread Gallery, Port Elizabeth
2013 - ELLE Young Photographer of the Year, Cape Town, South Africa. (Finalist)
2012 - Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa
2012 - Month of Photography, The Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 - Vivid Demise, Grahamstown Arts Festival, Barrat Centre, Grahamstown, South Africa 
2011 - Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa (Finalist)
2011 - NMMU Contemporary, Ron Belling Gallery, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
2011 - Lens, Sasol Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
2011 - Exodus, EPSAC Gallery, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
2011 - ABSA L’Atelier, ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa. (Finalist)
2011 - Profoto Winners, Bensusan Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2010 - Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa. (Finalist)
2010 - Minor Matters, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
2010 - Fixated, EPSAC Gallery, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
2010 - Biennial, Nelson Mandela Art Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. (Finalist)
2010 - ABSA L’Atelier, ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2010 - CTICC, Design Indaba, Emerging Creative, Cape Town, South Africa
2009 - Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa.
2009 - Profoto Winners, Bensusan Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa. (Finalist)
2009 - Graduate Exhibition, Ron Belling Gallery, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
2009 - ABSA L’Atelier, ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2008 - Biennial, Nelson Mandela Art Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. (Finalist)
2008 - Graduate Exhibition, Ron Belling Gallery, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
2008 - USA-SA University Collaborative Exhibition, Michigan State University, South Africa.   

Awards and Bursaries:
 
2011 - ABSA L’Atelier Top Ten Finalist.
2010 - Sony Profoto Silver Award Winner.
2010 - Sasol New Signature Merit Award.
2010 - One Small Seed Selected Creative.
2010 - Nelson Mandela Bay Art Museum Biennial Award Finalist. 
2010 - Golden Key Society Award.                   
2010 - Elle New Talent Finalist.
2009 - Sony Profoto Gold Award Winner.
2009 - Nelson Mandela University Merit Award for the top student in the Visual Arts.
2009 - Emerging Creative at the Design Indaba Expo.
2008 - Photo Imaging Education Association, Honourable Mention Award.
2008 - Nikon Portrait Competition Winner.
2007 - Kodak Student Portfolio Award.      
                                 

Gerhardt Coetzee | South Africa | Documentary Photographer

Gerhardt Coetzee is an Afrikaans documentary photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa, who explores shifting micro-utopias in South Africa.
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