Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL DETAILS

  • Johannes Frederick Thom. Born 1976 in Johannesburg, South Africa

    PERSONAL DETAILS SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

  • BA (FA) – 1999 – University of Pretoria (with distinction in the theoretical component, Visual Communications 400)
  • MTech Fine Arts (Cum Laude) – 2003 – Technikon Pretoria
  • Currently full time artist and part time lecturer at the Tswhane University of Technology in Sculpture, Multi-disciplinary studies and Theory of Art and Design

    PERSONAL DETAILS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

    National Group Exhibitions:·
  • 1995, 1996, 1998, and 2001: “PPC Young Sculptor’s Competition” held annually at the Association of Arts in Pretoria.
  • 1996, 1998, and 2001: “Sasol New Signatures Competition” held annually at the Pretoria Art Museum.
  • 1995, 1999, 2000, and 2002: “Kempton Park Tembisa Metropolitan Art Competition” held annually by the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan in Kempton Park.
  • 1999, 2004: “ABSA Atelier Fine Arts Award” (Catalogue)
  • 1999: “Gender Day Exhibition” University of Pretoria Fine Arts Gallery.
  • 1999: “Exit”, Final Year Group Exhibition of the Fine Art Department of the University of Pretoria, African Window Cultural Museum Gallery, Pretoria.
  • 1999: “Double Exposure”, Group Exhibition, Vos Gallery, Pretoria.
  • 2001: “Launch”, Group Exhibition, the Open Window Gallery, Pretoria.
  • 2002: “Drawing Conclusions” Group Exhibition curated by Dianne Victor held at the Association of Art, Pretoria.
  • 2002: Technikon Pretoria Senior Student show at the Millennium Gallery in Pretoria.
  • 2002: “Sasol New Signatures” Past Winners Exhibition, Sasolburg. Artists included were Renier Le Roux, Frikkie Eksteen and Hannecke Benade amongst others.
  • 2002: “Caya Art Festival” Group Exhibition Springs.
  • 2002: “Sasol New Signatures” Past Winners Group Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum.
  • 2002: “Fantastic Rubbish” Group Exhibition held at the Ubuntu Village, curated by Jeanne Hoffman for “Mission Antarctica” to coincide with the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg 2002. Other participating artists included Willem Bosshof, Gordon Froud, Lisa Grobler, Richman Buthelezi and Jan van der Merwe (Catalogue)
  • 2002: “Exorcism: I am no-one” held at the Snowflake gallery during the Potchefstroom Annual National Art Festival, Potchefstroom 24-28 September.
  • 2002: “Kick-Back” Group Exhibition held at C3 Gallery, Jeppestown Johannesburg July 2002 with Sotiris Moldivanos, Carine Zaayman, Cobus Haupt and Sarel Janse van Rensburg.
  • 2002: “The Spacing”, Digital Art Group Show hosted by the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Musicology of the University of South Africa (Unisa) in Pretoria from 7 September to 15 October. Curators were: Elfriede Dreyer, Ania Krajewska and Carine Zaayman. Artists included Wilma Cruise, Marcus Neustetter, Minette Vari, and Jan van der Merwe.
  • 2002: “A Show of Angels” Group Exhibition held at the Open Window Academy of Fine Art and Design, Pretoria.
  • 2003: Technikon Pretoria Lecturers Show at the Theo van Wyk gallery at the University of Pretoria·
  • 2003: “The Brett Kebble Art Awards” held in Cape Town (Catalogue).
  • 2004: Untitled group exhibition at the Secret Gallery, Pretoria 25 March – 8 April 2004

    International Shows

  • 2003: “Recycling the Future: viverevenezia2”, a group show curated by Angela Vetesse as part of the 50th Annual Venice Biennale, “Dreams and Conflicts”, curated by Francesco Bonami (Catalogue)
  • 2003: “Nemo Separitat: Nothing separates us” curated by Alex Zika as part of his MA(FA) at Central St Martins, London.
  • 2004: “Lost In Translation” curated by Ales Vaupotic and Narvika Bovcon as part of “The Tenth International Computer Arts Festival, Maribor, Ljubijana (Slovenbia), Graz (Austria), Zagreb (Croatia), May 2004” organized by the Mladinski Kulturni Center (MKC), Maribor.
  • 2004: “X”, an exhibition in Celebration of ten years of Democracy in South Africa, curated by Kelly O`Reilly at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich, London.

    Solo Shows

  • 2003: “The Exorcism Series”, a Masters Degree show held from 9-30 April 2003, to fulfill in the requirements of the Masters degree MTech Faro, Technikon Pretoria, at the National Cultural History Museum, Pretoria.
  • 2004: “bind/ontbind series” at Outlet, Pretoria from 6 - 31 March 2004

    Performance art/Interventions:

  • 2000: “strip/peeled/pack/sealed”, Kempton Park Tembisa Metropolitan Art competition.
  • 2001: “Risen”, performance at Gordon Froud`s exhibition Plastic by Nature, African Window Cultural History Museum in Pretoria.
  • 2002: “Probing the Epiphany” at Drawing Conclusions curated by Dianne Victor at the Association of Art, Pretoria
  • 2002: “Enfantada” held at the Snowflake Gallery on the 25th of September, during the Potchefstroom Annual National Art Festival.
  • 2003: “i am no-one” as part of the “Violence and Happiness Series” held at the National Cultural History Museum, Pretoria on the 9th of April 2003 to coincide with the opening of The Exorcism Series, the Masters Degree show of Johan Thom·
  • 2003: “bind/ontbind”, a series of 13 performances held in Venice to coincide with the 50th Annual Venice Biennale 2003.
  • 2003: “bind/ontbind”, 2 performances held at the Potchefstroom Annual National art Festival as part of the “Art Under Construction” project curated by Abrie Fourie·
  • 2003: “teaching art teaching life”, solo performance held at Magnolia Dell, Pretoria
  • 2003: “here/now”, a 24 hour intervention as part of the “Violence and Happiness series” at Outlet, 26-27 November, Pretoria
  • 2004: “excogitations”, a group sound performance curated by Abrie Fourie, as part of Outlet Currents!, held at the Pretoria Art Museum. Participating artists included Gito Baloi, James Webb, Thomas Barry, Joao Orreccio, Nathaniel Stern.
  • 2004: “minotaur series” (an ongoing series), 3 public performances held as part of the DI.E.N.S. project, curated by Lise Grobler and held at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn
  • 2004: “minotaur series” – single performance held at the Bag Factory, Johannesburg, 11 May
  • 2004: “minotaur series” – single performance held in Johannesburg as part of a 24hour residency with Christian Nerf at the Nelson Mandela Bridge, Newtown

    Awards

  • 2001: Judges Award, Frank Ledimo, “Sasol New Signatures National Art Competition” for the multimedia installation “Thula-Thula Baba! Post-traumatic stress disorder”
  • 2001: Merit Award PPC Young Sculptors National Art Competition for the multimedia installation “Bi-polar Disorder: Defining the impasse”

    Academic Conferences and Seminars

  • 1999: Gender Day Conference hosted by the Center for Gender Equality at the University of Pretoria - “Simon says and most men do” (published)
  • 2000: The 16th Annual Art Historians Conference in hosted by Rhodes University in Grahamstown - “Consumerism and Transcendence: Defining freedom of choice within Postmodern South Africa” (unpublished)
  • 2002: The 18th Annual Art Historians Conference hosted by the University of Pretoria in Pretoria - “Taming the Trojan Horse: Disarming the Politics of Otherness in a Postcolonial (African) Context”(published in proceedings of the annual conference)
  • 2003: “The Exorcism Series: Identity in a Postcolonial South African Context” - a research methodology seminar held at the Technikon Witwatersrand on 11 August 2003
  • 2003: “Postmodernism as a continuation of western dominance: discourse, power and the other”, a research presentation held at the Technikon Pretoria as part of the Research Conference held annually

    Community Workshops

  • 2002: Caya Art Festival “Voices of the Children” community art project hosted by the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan in Springs 24-29 June 2002. This project was exhibited at the Johannesburg International Airport as an installation for the duration of the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg 2002

    Lecturing Experience

  • 2002: Part time lecturer in first year Sculpture at Technikon Pretoria from January 2002

    Part time lecturer in Post-colonial Studies at the Technikon Pretoria for Theory of Art 400

  • 2002: Part time lecturer at the Design School of Southern Africa in Pretoria and Johannesburg in History of Art and Design from January 2002 – April 2003 for the following subjects: Foundation History, First Year History Second Year History, Third Year History, Specialized History of Contemporary Photography 2
  • 2003: Part time lecturer in History of Art and Design 2 & 3 from at the Department of Graphic Design, Technikon Pretoria.

    Part time lecturer in first year Multi-Disciplinary Studies from January 2003 at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Technikon Pretoria

  • 2004: Part time lecturer in Postmodernism, Performance art and Feminism at the Tshwane University of Technology (Formerly known as the Technikon Pretoria) for Theory of Art 400
  • 2004: History of Africa Art course leader for Theory of Art at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Tshwane Univeristy of Technology
  • Examiner and Promoter for various students currently busy with their B.Tech and M.Tech studies at the Tshwane University of Technology

    SELECTED CITATIONS/PUBLICATIONS

    All citations in order of appearance
  • Du Preez, A. 2001. Ontugtering na wittebrood. Beeld, Plus bylae. 8 August
  • Viljoen, H. 2002. Thom ruk murg uit lewende kadawers. Beeld: Spat! (Aardklop feeskoerant). 24 September
  • Ferreira, N. 2003. Johan Thom: Ons is almal kaal. Beeld: Plus bylae. 10 April
  • Staden-Garbett, M. 2003. From the sublime to the ridiculous: Johan Thom courts controversy in his art. Pretoria News. 29 April: 18
  • La Grange, B. 2003. Tiens rooi spikkels is ‘kuns sonder rigiede parameters’. Beeld. 27 September
  • Stevens, I. 2004. Johan Thom. Art South Africa. Vol 2, Issue 3, Autumn. Bell Roberts Publishing: Cape Town