found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed June 14, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Alexander, Jane; sculptor, assemblage artist; born 1959 in Johannesburg, South Africa; won the Martienssen Student Prize at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1982); masters of fine arts degree (1988); a professorship in sculpture and is resident in Cape Town; a solo exhibition in Johannesburg that included “Butcher Boys” (1985-1986); participated in the Havana Biennale (1994) and the Venice Biennale (1995); was awarded the prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Fine Art (1995), the FNB Vita Art Now Award (1996), and the DaimlerChrysler Award for Contemporary Sculpture (2002); participated in The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994 (Munich, Berlin, Chicago, and New York, 2001-2002), Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent (Düsseldorf, London, Paris, Tokyo, Johannesburg, 2004-2008), Triennial Beaufort 2006, PMMK Museum of Modern Art in Ostend, and the North Sea Coast of Belgium (2006), Apartheid-The South African Mirror (CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània Barcelona, 2007-2008), and Jane Alexander on Being Human (Galilee Chapel, Durham Cathedral, England, 2009))
