Qualification
2014 Internship with Zack Arias, United States of America
Awards & Achievements
2023 'ABSA L'Atelier Art' Competition (Top 100), South Africa
2022 'Best Virtual Exhibition Award' for 'Prisoners of Stone', DigiFest’09 & ARK 2022 hosted by the Durban University of Technology (DUT) & the South African Visual Art Historians (SAVAH), Kwa-Zulu Natal, S.A
2020 Shortlisted for the Everyday Changemaker Photo Contest, 5 Media
2018 'Sasol New Signatures' (Finalist), South Africa
Auction
2020 'Stilled Life' - A Covid-19 Photographic Project, hosted by Strauss & Co. & the Turbine Art Fair
Public Collection
2020 'Stuart Trent Portrait Collection', Pretoria, South Africa
Residency
2019 'The Rare Library', Franschoek, South Africa
Solo Exhibition
2013 'Dudes With Beards', 3rd Place in Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa
Group Exhibitions
2024 'Between a rock and hard place', ESCAP3 Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
'Pain Is An Unavoidable Side Effect', ESCAP3 Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2023 'Kris-mis, ESCAP3 Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
'Toemaar, die donker kom (Hush, the dark is coming) Curated by Dr Moshumee T. Dewoo, ESCAP3 Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
'Field of Dreams', BKhz, Johannesburg, South Africa
'Art In War' Curated By Contemporary Lab, Galerie Christophe Person, Paris, France
'Night Swimming', ESCAP3 Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2022 'Friends of Valkenberg Trust Benefit', ESCAP3 Gallery, Online, Cape Town, South Africa
'Prisoners of Stone', DigiFest’09 & ARK 2022 hosted by the Durban University of Technology (DUT) & the South African Visual Art Historians (SAVAH), Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
'Know Thyself', ESCAP3 Gallery, ESCAP3 Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2021 'Honi soit qui mal y pense (Shame on anyone who thinks evil of it), ESCAP3 Gallery, Cape Town, S.A
'Emotion' Curated by Dr Paul Bayliss, ABSA Gallery, Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK) Virtual Gallery, Oudtshoorn, Northern Cape, SA
'The Serapeum Way', ESCAP3 Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
'Gather ye Rosebuds while ye may', BKhz, Keyes Art Mile, Johannesburg, South Africa
'Sacred' Curated by Madiha Sebbani, ESCAP3 Gallery, Cape Town, S.A
2020 'Blue is the Warmest Colour', BKhz, Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa
'A figure stepped out', Story Gallery, Online Exhibition
'Metamorphosis (Books of Transformations)', ESCAP3 Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
'Habit at', BKhz, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa
'LAN[d]' (ESCAP3 Gallery), Turbine Virtual Art Fair
2019 'Metamorphosis', BKhz, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa
'Face to Face', NOW Gallery, Open Window Campus, Centurion, S.A
'Cure the Powerless', NoEndContemporary, Linden, Johannesburg
'SWAY', NOW Gallery, Open Window Campus, Centurion, South Africa
2018 'A Letter to my 22 Year old self', Collaboration between ABSA & BKhz, ABSA Towers, Johannesburg, South Africa
'Behind the Lens', BKhz, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa
'Snake Eyes 3.0', Fried Contemporary, Pretoria, South Africa
'Sasol New Signatures', Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
2017 'Snake eyes 2.0', Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom, S.A
'ABSA L’atelier', ABSA Bank Towers, Johannesurg, South Africa
2016 'FIX', FOUND Collective, Prinschurch Building, Pretoria, South Africa
2015 'Sasol New Signatures', Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
Press
2024 Klyntji - Film & Foto Interview: ''n Kyk na hoe Bernard Brand sien By Celeste Theron
2016 Photography By Alon: Bernard Brand Interview - How one hand written letter changed his career from boring IT stuff to full time photographer.
2013 Mixed Apples: Featured Photographer Interview By Grant Reston
