Jarrett Erasmus

2017: Master's in Fine Art, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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

2022: Sites of Memory, HET Scheepvaartmuseum (National Maritime Museum), Amsterdam
2022: Time Is A Broken Umbrella, AVA Gallery, Cape Town
2022: Emergence, FORMS Gallery (online)
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: Panellist, 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

2018: OpenLab: The Art of Making, artist 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

2013: Business and Arts administrative certificate
2012: David Koloane Award
2011: Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Painting), Master's Degree Scholarship

Present: Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art at Rhodes University
Present: Chairperson of the Thupelo Arts Trust
2017: Sessional Lecturer, Visual Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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