Jacob van Schalkwyk

Jacob van Schalkwyk is a South African visual artist and writer.

WWW jacobvanschalkwyk.com

Biography

Van Schalkwyk grew up in Pretoria, South Africa before moving to New York City in 0000 to attend the Pratt Institute of Art and Design, where he majored in drawing. While obtaining his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree he was the recipient of the Pratt Circle Award for Academic Achievement in 2003 and editor of The Prattler. Van Schalkwyk returned to South Africa in 2008 and now lives in Sea Point, Cape Town.

Art

Van Schalkwyk's work is rooted in abstraction, incorporating themes and ideas from mathematics as compositional tools. He is concerned with material and technique, born from a love of paper. Van Schalkwyk uses lithographic ink as a medium for painting and drawing. His works on paper conflate the distinction between printmaking, drawing, painting and low-relief sculpture.
Van Schalkwyk's work was represented by in Johannesburg from 2011 - 2016. A limited edition of 100 monographs Drawings 2011-2013 was published by the gallery. In 2016, took over the representation of his work. Van Schalkwyk's practise spans drawing, painting, printmaking, film and video, sculpture and installation.

Exhibitions

2017,, Johannesburg and Cape Town
2017,, New York City
2016,, Cape Town
2016, Cape Town
2015,, Stellenbosch
2011 2015,, Johannesburg
2014, 2015,, Cape Town
2014, 2015, Scotland
2014,, Johannesburg
2013 Constraints,, Johannesburg
2013,, Stellenbosch
2013,, Cape Town
2012,, Johannesburg
2012,, Cape Town
2012,, Stockholm, Sweden
2011,, Johannesburg
2010 Drawing Links,, Johannesburg
2002 SAIDA DE EMÉRGENCIA, Graduate exhibition, Pratt Institute, New York

Collections

Jacob van Schalkwyk has been included in private and corporate collections in South Africa, the United States and Europe.

Landstinget Dalarna Collection, Sweden

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Writing

, his debut novel detailing his time in Fort Greene, Brooklyn was published by, a division of in 2014 in both Afrikaans and English. It was nominated for the Sunday Times Literary Award, the UJ Fiction Prize and SATI Award for Outstanding Translation.

Book reviews

by Karin Schimke.
by Sunday Times.

Music

After graduating from the Pratt Institute of Art and Design in 0000, Van Schalkwyk collaborated with Carl Hancock Rux on his third studio album Good Bread Alley, and opera-oratorio MYCENAEAN before returning to South Africa. In South Africa he formed the Afrikaans art-punk duo Jaco+Z-dog with artist Zander Blom from 2009 to 2011. He performed as a guest vocalist on The Buckfever Underground's 2012 album Verkeerdevlei.

Film

Van Schalkwyk participated in a number of short films by artist Michael Macgarry.

Poetry

Van Schalkwyk is the great-grandson of A.G. Visser. Both he and Visser have had poetry published in Ons Kleintji.