

Jarrett Erasmus
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Erasmus works in various media, focusing on current collaboration while thinking about post apartheid realities and its affects on the social dynamics between communities in South Africa as well as the diaspora.
Education
2016 ZHdk Summer School programme, Zurich, Switzerland
2007 - 2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
2005 - 2006 Design and Visual art Certificate, Arts and Media Access Centre (AMAC), Cape Town, South Africa
2003 – 2005 Cape Peninsula University of Technology Graphic Design
Projects and Exhibitions
2019 The Main Complaint, group exhibition, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
2018 Curatorial Care, Humanising Practices conference, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South
Africa
2018 Museum Dialogues conference, Goethe Institut, Windhoek, Namibia
2018 Kewpie, The Daughter of District Six, public art event in collaboration with Gay And Lesbian Memory in Action and District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 Panelist, Any Given Sunday presentation, African Art in Venice Forum, Italy
2016 Re(as)sisting Narratives, group exhibition, District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa (Burning Museum)
2016 Foundations and Futures, group exhibition, Bag Factory Arts studios, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016 Festival D’Art Urbain, Antanarivo, Madagascar
2016 Straatpraatjies, Burning Museum performance, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 Poetry Circle Nowhere workshop, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2015 Empty Ghosts, Public Art project, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015 Artificial Facts: Boundary Objects, group exhibition, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany (Burning Museum)
2015 Objetos Frontera, CA2M, Madrid, Spain (Burning Museum)
2015 Addressing the Headquarters, presentation, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Burning Museum)
2015 Cover Version, Gallery MoMo, Cape Town, South Africa (Burning Museum)
2015 Fortunes Remixed, group exhibition. Bag Factory Artist’s Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa
2014 Manufractured, Burning Museum performance, Cape Town, South Africa
2014 Ubuntu Artist Exchange, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
2014 Plakkers, group exhibition, Brundyn Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (Burning Museum)
2014 Do It, Michaelis Gallery, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa (Burning Museum)
2013 TO LET , Centre For African Studies gallery, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa
2013 Co-Curator, Till it Breaks, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa
2013 Currency and Curiosity, Joule City Incubator & Research Studio, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 Material Things, solo exhibition, Nafasi Art Space, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2012 S A S, group exhibition, Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa
2011 Mural Painting project at Community House, Salt River
2010 Plures Tectonicus (Many Mansions), Graduate solo exhibition, Albany Natural Sciences Museum Shell Gallery, Grahamstown, South Africa
2006 Mural painting, Artscape Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa
Workshops and Residencies
2018 OpenLab: The Art of Making, artists residency, Richmond, South Africa
2015: ASAI In Print, Print Access Workshop Series, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2014 Thupelo Artist’s Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa
2014 Arts Aweh Ambassadors programme (facilitator), Cape Town, South Africa
2013 Resident artist, Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 Cyan Development Concepts creative development workshops (teacher), Cape Town, South Africa
2012 Visiting Artist Residency, Through the lens: Drawing workshop, NAFASI Art Space, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2012 Visiting Artist Residency, Bag Factory Artist’s Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012 Artist's workshop, Thupelo, Cape Town, South Africa
2011 Participant and facilitator, Koekenaap artists workshop, Matzikama District, South Africa
Awards and Academic achievements
2012 David Koloane Award
2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Painting), Masters Degree Scholarship
Experience
2014 Infecting the City Festival High Schools programme, South Africa
2013 – 2014 Researcher and Digital archivist, Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI), Cape Town, South Africa
2010 – 2012 Facilitator, Cyan Development Concepts community arts and creative development workshops, Cape Town, South Africa
2009 – 2010 Intern, Artb Gallery, Bellville, South Africa
Assistant (N.R.F. internship), Visual Art undergraduate programme, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Production Assistant, VOLTA Art Fair, Art Basel, Switzerland
Board member, Thupelo Artists Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa
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