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BA (FA) (UP); MA (FA) (TUT) Tel: +27 12 420 6414E-mail: [email protected] Johan Thom works across a variety of media including sculpture, video, performance, drawing, printmaking and photography. His research focus is on materiality in fine art where he utilises a broad range of theoretic frameworks that include evolutionary approaches to art-making and post-phenomenological, performative approaches to the body and its identity. Currently Thom is a lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts where his core teaching load is divided between the co-ordination and teaching of the fourth year and postgraduate students. Thom’s works have been included in exhibitions at the Venice Biennale (2003); the Canary Islands Biennale (2006); the Palazzo delle Papesse (2008); the Johannesburg Art Gallery (2004, 2005); and at Iwalewa Haus (2010) in Germany. He is an active presence in the art research community and has participated in conferences and workshops at Documenta 13 (2012); the University of Cambridge (2009); GradCam in Dublin (2010); the Finnish Academy of Fine Art (2010); the Slade School of Fine Art (2010, 2011, 2012); ‘Real Presence’ at the Venice Biennale (2005); the University of Bayreuth (2010) and elsewhere. Research highlights Selected solo exhibitions 2014 New works from the Animal Series (with Willem Boshoff, Diane Victor, David Koloane, Guy Du Toit and Bevan De wet) at Nirox, Arts on Main, Feb-March 2014 2010 Becoming, Binding and Disappearing, Iwalewa Haus (The Africa Research Center of the University of Bayreuth), Germany, 2010 2008 Bind/Ontbind, Kwazulu Natal Association of Art, Durban, South Africa The Theory of Flight, Bag Factory Gallery (Fordsburg Artists’ Studios) Johannesburg, 2008 2006 Minotaur Series 12 a collaboration with Christophe Fellay (Composer & experimental percussionist, Switzerland) at the Forum d`Art Contemporaine, 2004 & Johannesburg Art Gallery, 2006 (Catalogue) 2004 ‘The Diary of New York’, Graskop Gallery, Mpumalanga, South Africa, 2006 (Catalogue) bind/ontbind series, Outlet, Pretoria, South Africa, Selected group exhibitions 2014 The Marakesh Biennale as part of ‘Still fighting ignorance & intellectual perfidy, Video art from Africa’, curated by Kisito Assangni, a travelling group exhibition (Sweden, Canada, Germany, United States) 2013 Working Title a group exhibition at the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 27 July -15 August Still fighting ignorance & intellectual perfidy, Video art from Africa, curated by Kisito Assangni, a travelling group exhibition (Sweden, Canada, Germany, United States) iMPAC international short-film festival, as part of new media exhibition curated by Prof Elfriede Dreyer and held at the Open Window, Pretoria, 2 – 5 October 2013 Work group exhibition curated by Nico Anklam (Berlin) and held in DK Gallery Copenhagen 2012 Making Space: Exploring creative process through dialogue,curation and exhibition, 20-25 February 2012, organized bythe Slade PhD programme, University College London, United Kingdom Mine, a selection of films by South African artists (including William Kentridge,Minette Vari, Berni Searle, Johan Thom, Robin Rhode, Greg Smith, Simon Gush, Bridget Baker and others) curated by Abrie Fourie Travelling group show: Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth, Germany, 2011; DUCTAC, Dubai, Feb 2012; University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg 2012 2009 Dada South?, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (curated by Kathryn Smith and Roger Van Wyk), 2009 The heart of the African city, group exhibition organized by MAP ZAR as part of African Perspectives 2009 and held at The University of Pretoria, 2009 (Catalogue) Dystopia, traveling group exhibition of South African art curated by Elfriede Dreyer and Jacob Lebeko (May 23 – June 30, 2009: Unisa Art Gallery; Pretoria; October 8 – November 15, 2009: Museum Africa, Johannesburg; June 10 – August 8, 2010: Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Mangaung. Britto New Media Festival, group exhibition at National Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2009 2008 .za: Giovane arte dul Sudafrica, group exhibition of new South African Art curated by Lorenzo Fusi, Kendell Geers Minette Vari, Sue Williamson, Berni Searle and Marlene Dumas, Pallazo delle Papesse, Sienna, Italy, 2008 (cat) A Legacy of Men, Group Exhibitionat the Johannesburg Art Gallery in support of the 16 Days of Activism against Violence against Women and Children (Nov 2007 – Jan 2008) Jozi and the (M)other City (catalogue), curated by Carine Zaayman, Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town Selected conferences 2010 Two performative lectures held as part of the conference Sexuate Subjects: politics, poetics and ethics, held at UCL, London, 3-5 December 2010 ‘Decoy’, Performance lecture as part of Tables of Thought organized by the Finnish Academy of Fine Art and the European Artistic Research Network, Helsinki 28-29 April 2010 ‘ProSpecter’, lecture presentation/ performance held as part of Arts research: publics and purposes, hosted by GradCam (Graduate School of the University of Dublin) as part of the European Artistic Research Network, 18 February 2010 2009 ‘Mobilizing forces’ lecture presentation/ performance with Slade Fine Art PhD group at Making Sense Conference organized by the French Department, Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, The University of Cambridge, 25 September 2009 Selected workshops/ talks and public presentations 2012 Making Space: Exploring creative process through dialogue, curation and exhibition, 20-25 February 2012, organized by the Slade PhD programme and held at Woburn Square, UCL, London 2011 Polyply 9: Animal, group exhibition/ presentation with Maria Fusco, Carol Watts, Anna Lawrence, Johan Thom and Peter Cusack organized by the Center for Creative Collaboration, University of London, Thursday 14 April 2011 The Undergound Surface and edges, Curated by Leora Farber and Anthea Buys. Talk and film screening at as part of the exhibition Afropolis: City. Media. Art at the Rautenstrach-Joest Museum in Cologne (January 2011) and at the Michalis Gallery, University of Cape Town (June –July 2011) Practice-led related awards 2013 Nirox Foundation Residency, Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, Johannesburg, 2008 Awarded Commonwealth Scholarship for PHD studies at the Slade School of Art, UCL, London 2008-2011 2007 Nirox Foundation Residency, Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, Johannesburg South African National Arts Council Award 2006 Britto Arts Trust Residency, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2005 The Ampersand Foundation Fellowship (New York/ Johannesburg), New York, May-July 2005 South African National Arts Council Award 2004 CRIC/Pro Helvetia Residency, Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Vallais, Sierre, Switzerland, Selected authored publications Thom, J. 2011. Santu Mofokeng. Die Burger, 2011-01-03. Available Online: http://www.dieburger.com/Vermaak/Nuus/Fotograaf-maak-van-kunskyk-alledaagse-iets-onvas- 20110103 Thom, J. Ontsnapping van die menssyn: Bas Jan Ader. Die Beeld, 2011-07-11. Available Online: http://www.beeld.com/Vermaak/Nuus/Ontsnapping-van-menssyn-20110711 Thom, J. 2010. The sense of fresh air. Artthrob Online. Available Online: http://www.artthrob.co.za/Reviews/The-sense-of-fresh-air.aspx Thom, J. 2007. Jeering at a one-eyed man: Kendell Geers at the Stephen Friedman Gallery. Art South Africa Vol 5.4, Summer 2007: Bell Roberts Publishing: Cape Town. Available Online: http://www.artsouthafrica.com/?article=178 Thom, J. 2007. Life Intimidating Art. The Diplomat, Sept/Oct 2007: James M. Pach, Australia. Available Online: http://www.the-diplomat.com/article.aspx?aeid=3323 Thom, J. 2007. The Aristocrats: Roger Ballen at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Art South Africa, Vol 6 Summer 2007: Bell Roberts Publishing: Cape Town Thom, J. 2006. The answer is under the rock. Art South Africa: Interview with Willem Boshoff. Art South Africa Vol 4, Issue 3, Autumn, 2005: Bell Roberts Publishing: Cape Town. Available Online: http://www.artsouthafrica.com/?article=76 |
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