Byron Masixole Eksteen CV
Education
Rhodes University | Bachelor of Arts (2014)
Red and Yellow School of Magic and Logic | Art Direction (2008)

Exhibition History
Solo
‘Collection of Live Drawings of Musicians’ (2024). Selective Live, Cape Town. South Africa.
‘City Scape’ (2023). Roof Top venue in Bree street Cape Town city, South Africa
‘Stealing Time from A Tomb’ (2021). The Commons, Cape Town, South Africa.
‘The Machine in My Head’, Painting Installation. (2020). Association of Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa.
‘Untitled’, (2019). Young Blood Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
‘Incognito’, (2019). The Drawing Room, Cape Town, South Africa. 
‘Parallax Art Fair London’, (2017). Exhibited at the fair in a solo booth.
‘Where Is My Heart Or Mind In Logic’, (2010). Painting installation. Undisclosed location in Joza, South Africa.

Group
Pola! (2023). Art Bellville. Cape Town, South Africa.
‘Salon Afrique’ (2022). The Home Coming Centre (District 6 Museum). Cape Town, South Africa.                                                                                                                        ‘Untitled’ (2022). The Black Brick Hotel with the Association of Visual Arts Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa.  
‘Plien’ (2021). Deepest Darkest Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa..
‘Untitled’ (2021). Art is Art Gallery Woodstock. Cape Town, South Africa.
‘Home Is Where the Heart Is’. (2020). Zeitz MOCAA.. Cape Town South Africa.
‘The Grand Opening of The Woodstock Art Gallery’ (2020). Cape Town, South Africa.
‘Untitled’ (2020). Art Bureau Collective, Cape Town, South Africa.
‘Investec Cape Town Art Fair’ (2020). Association of Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa.
‘Untitled Exhibition’ (2019 – 2020). Axis Gallery, Hermanus, South Africa.
‘Incite’ (2019). Deepest Darkest Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. ‘Untitled Exhibition’ (2017). Art It Is, Cape Town, South Africa.
‘City of Light and Dark’ (2017). Kings Road Gallery, London United Kingdom.
‘Aspek’ (2017). House in Huddinge, Stockholm Sweden.

Media
King Nothing, (2021). Wrote an essay on the director Sibs Shongwe Le Mer. Africaisnowmagazine.com
Sibs Shongwe La Mer, (2021). Video interview conducted by the director.
Nolan Stevens. (2020). ‘Trauma Rebirthing the Light’. Outlandisharts.net.au
Sven Christian, (2020). ‘Byron Eksteen: The Machine in my Head’. Art Africa Magazine (Online edition).
SABC 2 Morning Live Television Show, (2020). Featured interview on the National News.
Bush Radio (2020). Featured interview about the (then) up and coming show at the AVA gallery.
David Williams (2011) ‘Byron Eksteen: Living Life on the Mural’. The Oppidan Press O Week Edition.
Lisa Nevitt, (2010). ‘Who Is Byron Eksteen’. Capetownmagazine.com
Hartley Woolf, (2010). Feature in the documentary “Cape Town Art and Jazz’.
Red Cross Film School (2009). Featured in a documentary shot by the Swedish organisation about art in Cape Town.

Film industry/ stills.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, (2024) Directed by Gore Verbinsky. I was commissioned to be the Lead Graffiti Artist for the film; the role included a 90-meter hero shot mural that I executed. I was provided with a rough sketch of the directors’ idea for the mural and worked on redefining it with the production designer (David Brisbin) for a week before going to the studio to paint the work.
Note: due to the fact that the film has not been released yet I can only show examples of the work done in person from my device.
Production designer/ Graphic designer for South African series called ‘Splash’ (2023). Featured paintings of mine, I dressed the interior of a car with material that was printed with my work. The interior of the car was used as a set for the lead actor.
Samsung Galaxy Book 3 (2023).
I was commissioned by Orange films to create two paintings to be placed in a set for a Samsung commercial for the Galaxy Book 3.
Noughts and Crosses BBC series (2020), Muralist and sign writer.
I worked on the series doing all the murals and sign writing needed. The one mural I did was a main feature in the film and was 2 stories high. I was head hunted due to my style meeting the requirements of the visual language
Bucherer Jewellery, (2019).
7 of my paintings and 2 sculptures were rented out to be used in a photo shoot by the Jewellery company. The set was at the Smack gallery and they took off the work belonging to the gallery and replaced it with my work.

Other.
Commissioned to do a painting ‘Genisis’. Relief ink on canvas. 2023 to be on permanent public display at the Olievenhuise Art Museum in South Africa (2020).
Won a contract to work in collaboration with Piaff Champaign to do limited edition bottle designs and to have the painting ‘A Window Into The Passages of Time’ relief ink on canvas. 2022/3 scanned in and blown up 3 x 2.7m to be used as a display at the Heritage Square in Cape Town city. The original work got sold to a movie producer from LA. Click link to view.
Got selected into a grant mentorship program with The Business of Arts South Africa and the Arts and Culture department of South Africa called the Debut program in which I developed a clothing range entitled ‘Gold Standard’ which is on going (2024).
A restaurant in South Korea commissioned me to paint a painting for them to be on public display at the restaurant ‘The Dragon’. Relief ink on canvas. 61 x 86 cm.