Phoka Nyokong
contemporary collaboration art
About
Biography
Phoka Nyokong is an artist, curator, writer and researcher. His work is a transdisciplinary focus on performance, sound/video and installation, painting, drawing, photography, storytelling, curating and writing.
His exhibitions over the recent past demonstrate a consistent focus on work with mostly public institutions and some private institutions. These include the Aardklop Arts Festival, the Turbine Art Fair, the Pretoria Art Museum, Lizamore and Associates, the 2019 Absa L’Atelier Exhibition at the Absa Gallery, Johannesburg; the Ernest Mancoba Dialouge at A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town and his recently opened first institutional solo exhibition titled Dinoolwane, Matlotlo le Baloi, at the North West University Art Gallery, Potchefstroom.
He is the recipient of the Gerard Sekoto Awad for 2019.
CV
Born: 1983 July 11
Contact: 0659147585 / 0835462710
Education
2020-2021 MA: Live Art, Interdisciplinary and Public Art, Institute for Creative Arts (ICA)
2019 Honours in Curatorship, Centre for Curating the Archive, University of Cape Town
2018 B-Tech in Fine Art (cum laude), Tshwane University of Technology
2017 National Diploma in Fine Art (cum laude), Tshwane University of Technology
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Dinoolwane, Matlotlo le Baloi, NWU Art Gallery, Potchefstroom
2018 Gathering footprints, Collecting memories (Performance), TUT Arts Festival, Pretoria
2016 (Lost) Innocence, Longstreet ArtLovers, Pretoria
Group Exhibitions
2020 Ernest Mancoba Dialogue, A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town
2019 Genesis, Bkhz Studio, Johannesburg.
2019 Absa L’Atelier Exhibition, Absa Gallery, Johannesburg
2019 For Sale Project Exhibition, Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg
2019 Urban Archaeology, Daor Contemporary, Cape Town
2019 A Feast of Wombs (video), Joburg Fringe VideoArt! Cape Town
2018 A Feast of Wombs (video), Joburg Fringe VideoArt! 2018, The Art Link Gallery, Parkhurst, Johannesburg
2018 Moving Contemporary Art World, Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg
2018 Genesis II, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
Curator
2018 Voices,Now!! Menlo Park, Pretoria
2016 Convergence: Abstraction Through Figuration, Longstreet ArtLovers, Pretoria
Awards
2019 Absa L’Atelier Gerard Sekoto Award
2019 UCT Council Honours Merit award
2019 The Andrew Mellon Foundation – Honours: Curatorship, CCA
2018 Lizamore Curatorship Mentorship Award - shortlisted
2015 North West Provincial Arts and Culture Council Fine Art Bursary Award
2013 North West Cultural Calabash Visual Art Prize Winner
Workshops/Projects
2019 “You, For Instance – On Making a Solo and the Art of Failure”, Performance Art Workshop, Institute for Creative Arts (ICA), University of Cape Town.
2019 More Than Paint: Art on the Edge, Art Conservation Workshop, IZIKO South African National Gallery
2019 Live Art Workshop, Institute for Creative Arts (ICA), University of Cape Town.
2018 Non-Metropolitan Mentorship Programme: Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, Johannesburg
2017-18 Education Assistant and Tour Guide : Pretoria Art Museum
2018 Art Career Workshop Facilitator: St Alban’s College Career Conference, Pretoria
2018 Facilitator – Reconnection By Art: Pretoria Art Museum
2017 Facilitator - Children’s Tile Art Project: Pretoria Art Museum
2014-15 Part-Time Teacher : Visual Art, Klerksdorp Museum
Online articles/video links
Phoka Nyokong | Creative Feel
https://creativefeel.co.za › tag › phoka-nyokong
Artist Phoka Nyokong wins Gerard Sekoto award
https://www.litnet.co.za › artist-phoka-nyokong-wins-gerard-sekoto-award...
[LISTEN] Meet Absa L'Atelier Gerard Sekoto Award winner
http://www.capetalk.co.za/articles/362154/listen-meet-absa-l-atelier-gerard-sekoto-award-winner
2018 Art-is-T -- Monuments to the 2nd Economy (by Phoka Nyokong) Pt1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1SknOxvhvg
2018 Art-is-T -- Monuments to the 2nd Economy (by Phoka Nyokong) Pt2
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contemporary | collaborative | interdisciplinary