Born in 1987, she is yet to understand the formulaic act of an artist biography as anything other than proving, you should be liked because someone has previously liked you. That being said in, 2020 Anastasia was selected by the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden for a residency in Marrakesh. In 2018 she was selected for the OpenLab Residency in Richmond, Northern Cape and named by the Project Space as a finalist for the Young Female Residency Award and one of the top twenty artists of Joburg Art Fair, 2018. Pather has also been a semi-finalist for the SA TAXI Foundation Art Award. Anastasia paints in Johannesburg and has had four solo shows at 99 Loop, Cape Town, South Africa (2016, 2017, 2018, 2020). In 2022 she opened an art consultancy AP.AD that designs and manages corporate art collections with a specific focus on South African artist development her clients include J.P. Morgan, South Africa. In April 2023 Anastasia will be exhibiting at the Museum oF African American Art (AAM) in Dallas Texas in an exhibition entitled, 'If you look hard enough, you can see the future'.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in South Africa in 1987
Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa
EDUCATION
2010
BFA University of Witwatersrand
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & PUBLICATIONS
2018
OpenLab Residency, Richmond, Northern Cape, South Africa
#FNBJAF20: The search for Africa’s most influential new artistic talent, FNB Joburg Art Fair Award, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016
72-hour Jam, lock-in presented by NoXngham-Trent University in Braamfontein, Johannesburg
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Thief, 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2018
Pretty Face, 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2017
Everything Must Go, 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016
Meeting You, 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Still Here Tomorrow to High Five You Yesterday, Zeitz Mocaa Museum, Cape Town
Imagine the Opposite, No End Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa
Virtual Spaces (A Femme Forward Showcase), TMRW Gallery
2018
In Silva, the Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa
And We Heard the Colours Sound, Lizamore & Associates
Flood in my hands, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria, South Africa
2017
A Painting Today, Stevenson, Cape Town
You Leave Me With This, No End Contemporary, Johannesburg
WORK/PLAY, Bag Factory, Johannesburg
2016
Oracle, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa
Untitled 2.99, group show, 99 Loop, Cape Town
#Selfie, Lizamore & Associates, Johannesburg
Spatial Relations, Lizamore & Associates, Johannesburg
Interlude, No End Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015
Cross-Sections, Old Transvaal Post Office, Johannesburg, South Africa
On the Back of His Words, Basha Uhuru Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa
Death of the Old, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg
Rest in Pastel, group show, Kalashnikovv, Johannesburg
Black and Colour, group show, Art it is, Johannesburg
2014
Letters to the Black Sea, White Replies, solo show, Art and Social Studio, Johannesburg
Blood, Sweat and Tears, group show, ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg
Kunsuitstalling, group show, Lizamore & Associates, Johannesburg
2008
Beyond the Line, group project, Goethe Institute, Johannesburg
NATIONAL ART FAIRS
2020
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town.
2019
RMB Turbine Art Fair,99 Loop Gallery, Johannesburg
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2017
FNB Joburg Art Fair, 99 Loop Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2015
Jo’burg Fringe Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
COLLECTIONS
Spier Arts Trust, South Africa
Nando's Art Collection, South Africa
Gordon Froud Collection, South Africa
Art Bank of South Africa, South Africa