RICKY AYANDA DYALOYI

(b. 1974 Gugulethu, Cape Town)

From a young age, Ricky Dyaloyi felt inspired to draw and sketch the vibrant community and life that surrounded him in the township. His creativity and love for the arts was encouraged and nurtured by his parents during his adolescent years and by 1988, at age fourteen, he was attending part-time art classes at CAP (Community Arts Project). From this training he was propelled to participate in workshops and exhibitions.

Dyaloyi’s imagery and thematic evolved around the time of South Africa’s first democratic elections – a momentous period in South Africa’s history where there was an influx of discourse and exchange between all South African artists in the country. His oeuvre therefore fits into a broader genre of South African painting, which has its roots in the Thupelo programme – a workshop that encouraged artistic growth by exchanging ideas, experiences, techniques and disciplines within a shared space or studio. The programme started in the 1980s in Johannesburg and later was brought to Cape Town in the 1990s.

Dyaloyi’s style of painting reflects ordinary citizens going about their daily lives, rendered in heightened colours to reveal the effervescent quality of the community and people with whom he lives. With an uncanny determination, Dyaloyi aims to unravel the simple mysteries of the human condition through his medium of choice - oil paint. 

Everard Read presented Dyaloyi's work at the 2015 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London and his work was spotlighted at the same fair in 2018 by Spier Arts Trust. Everard Read published a monograph on Dyaloyi in 2016 and an essay on the artist is included in Ashraf Jamal's In The World: Essays on Contemporary South African Art, published in 2017. 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023    Impilo ifun'abomeleleyo (Living Requires Strength), Everard Read, Cape Town & 16 on Lerotholi, Cape Town, South Africa

2022    Ukuphuma kwe langa (Light Ushering in the Dawn of a New Day), Everard Read, London, UK

2021    Isiphambuka Sendlela (The Crossroads), Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

2020    Limits of our Longing, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2018    A Paradox of Our Times, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2015    Shaman of the Everyday, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2012    Noma Kanjani, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa 

2011    Isifuba Siphandle, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2009    Recent works, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2006    Solo exhibition, Empathy Hollard, Johannesburg, South Africa 

2005    Solo exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2003    New Works, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2001    A selection of works, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

1998    Solo exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

Locating Identity, 16 on Lerotholi, Cape Town, South Africa

2023

What I Feel When I Think About The Cosmos, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

Abantu Bethu, 16 on Lerotholi, Cape Town, South Africa

Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read Cape Town, South Africa 

110 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Everard Read, London, UK

2022

Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read Cape Town, South Africa 

Things I’d like to remember, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2021    

In Conversation, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

Oasis: 25th anniversary group exhibition, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2020    

The Portrait Show, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa 

IMAGO, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

Journeys of the Mind, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

2019

Winter, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

Southern Aspect, Everard Read, London, United Kingdom

2018

Winter, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read Cape Town, South Africa

Material Gains, Stellenbosch University Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa 

2016 

Opening exhibition, Everard Read, London, United Kingdom 

Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read Cape Town, South Africa 

2015

1:54 African Art Fair, with Everard Read, London, United Kingdom 

Winter, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

EMPIRE, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2014    

Summer Season, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

The City, Imibala Gallery in association with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

Winter show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa 

2013

100, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

Possessed, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2012

Winter Show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

Small Works, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2011 15th Anniversary, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

Isibane Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa 

2010

Khumalo, Mzimba, Dyaloyi, three man show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

View from the South, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2009

Sex, Power, Money, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

Dyaloyi & Sekete, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

The City, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2006

Small works, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2004    

Identity, The ID of South African Artist, Van den Ende Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands 

10 - Celebrating Ten Years of Democracy, Iziko SA National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

C.A.P., Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Zabalaza, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

1996

Sicula sixhentsa xa sisonke (we sing and dance together), curated by Harris Wilster, travelling exhibition, North America 

1990

Art from South Africa, curated by David Elliot, Oxford Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Cape Grace Hotel, South Africa
Hillard, South Africa                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Santam, South Africa
Sanlam, South Africa
Iziko South African National Gallery, South Africa
Nando’s, South Africa and United Kingdom
Van den Ende, Netherlands