Sitaara Stodel

Sitaara Stodel was born in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2014 she graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa). Sitaara is currently a technical officer at the Photography Department at the Michaelis School of Fine Art.

The majority of her work has been exploring her experience of growing up constantly on the move. Stodel have moved over 34 times in 27 years, mainly around Cape Town. Her family was often evicted from their rented houses, and thus the home became a transient space of growth and trauma.

Stodel has been included a number of group shows including  No Ordinary Woman at PH Center (Cape Town: 2018);  Shady Tactics at SMAC (Cape Town: 2018); Close Encounters at SMITH (Cape Town: 2018);  Art Meets Camera: Closer than ever at Gallery MOMO (Cape Town: 2017);  Greatest Hits 2014: The Domestic Odyssey at AVA (Cape Town: 2015) and Sasol New Signatures Art Competition Top 100 at Pretoria Art Museum (Pretoria: 2013).

In 2015, she was awarded the Tierney Fellowship award which allowed her to continue to create work while making a living. Since then she has been in multiple group shows, working in the medium of photography, collage, video and print. In addition, Stodel has been awarded  the Cecil Skotnes Scholarship award from the Michaelis School of Fine Art (2014) as well as a  Scholarship from the Centre for Curating the Archive for materials (2014).