BIO

JP MEYER

(Johannes Petrus Meyer)
Born 1960 in Bloemfontein, South Africa
Lives and works in Porterville, South Africa
1996-1999 The Foundation School of Art, Cape Town


Solo Exhibitions

2022
Residency Exhibition, Forster Gallery, Zanzibar

2021
Snakes and Ladders, Bland Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, USA

2020
Ink, Facebook

2019
Gods, Men and Monsters, The Toffee Gallery, Darling
Of Mice, Men and Dinosaurs, Facebook

2017
Wrong Archive, Alex Hamilton Studio Gallery, Cape Town

2014
Loopsand, Watershed, Prince Albert
Simulacrum, Breytenbach Gallery, Wellington

2016
Doop / Initiate, Woordfees, Stellenbosch

2010
Exchange, Prince Albert Gallery, Prince Albert

2008
Constant movement, Artspace@Granitas, Pretoria

2006
Repetition, Cultivaria Festival, Paarl

2003
Reflection, Association of Visual Art, Cape Town

Joint Exhibitions

2023  
CrossroadsKamada Hall, Sakaide, JAPAN with Eiichi Tsujino, Yuki Tsujino and Philip W. Badenhorst

2022
Play-Play, DAOR Contemporary, Cape Town with Carin Dorrington and Katja Abbott

2021
It’s [not] Black and White, Glen Carlou Gallery, Stellenbosch with Erika Suter

2020
Foyer Pots and other Foreign Fables, Gallery @ Glen Carlou with Carin Dorrington

2018
Painters’ Painters, Dawid Ras Gallery, Sandton with Matthew Brittan.

2017
Up Your Sleeve, Mok Gallery, Stellenbosch with Ingrid Bolton, Katie Barnard-du Toit, Noeleen Kleeve and Lene Ehlers.

2013
Soil, GalleryGrande Provence, Franschhoek with Katie Barnard-du Toit, Anthony Shapiro and Gregor Rohrig.

2005
Stukkies, Artspace, JHB with Varenka Pascke and Cobus van Bosch

2004
Drie Skilders, KKNK, Oudtshoorn with Adriaan van Zyl and Philip Badenhorst

2003
Twee Skilders, KKNK, Oudtshoorn with Adriaan van Zyl

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2023
Heads and Tales, ArtSoko, Cape Town
RUGBY, Rust & Vrede Gallery, Durbanville
You are Here, Porterville Curated, Glen Carlou Gallery

2022
Bolero, International Art project on the move, Kyiv (Ukraine) and Kassel (Germany)
Seeing Far, Gallery Glen Carlou with Knysna Fine Art and Everard Read.
Narrative – Artists who work with paper, RK Contemporary, Riebeeck Kasteel.

2021
Somewhere over the rainbow, Art and About, Johannesburg.
Winter + Autumn Exhibition, DAOR Contemporary, Cape Town

2020
Subsurface Scattering, GalleryONE11, Cape Town
Boys don’t Cry, Rust & Vrede Gallery, Durbanville
Art Night, Nel-on-Long, Cape Town

2019
Works on Paper, RK Contemporary, Riebeek Kasteel
Dwell in Possibility, Vrystaat Art Festival, Bloemfontein

2018
The Universe Next Door, Rossouw Modern, Hermanus
Kennis, Woordfees, Stellenbosch

2017
Cruel Cruel Summer, Gallery @ Glen Carlou, Stellenbosch
Dead and Dreaming (Still life), Priest Gallery, Johannesburg
Bolero, Eos Gallery, Athens, Greece
Instrumente van Vrede, Breytenbach Gallery, Wellington
To see the forest for the trees, US Museum, Stellenbosch

2016
Fear & Loss : Industrial Karoo, Khazimla, De Aar
Vernissage, MOOR Gallery, Franschhoek
The Salon, A.V.A., Cape Town
The Promise of Now, Gallery @ Glen Carlou, Stellenbosch

2015
Daaglikse Dosis, Clover Aardklop, Potchefstroom
Alfabeter, Woordfees, Stellenbosch
Industrial Karoo : Fear + Loss, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria

2014
Burger 100 Year Exhibition, Artscape, Cape Town
Industrial Karoo : Fear + Loss, Oliewenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein
Panorama, D-Street Gallery, Stellenbosch

2013
Moleskin Art + Design Project, KKNK, Oudtshoorn
Velvet, KKNK, Oudtshoorn

2012
I am an African, Grande Provence, Franschhoek

2011
New Identity, Grande Provence, Franschhoek

2010
Current Matters, Grande Provance, Franschhoek

2005
Finding You, AVA, Cape Town

2004
Brett Kebble Awards Exhibition, CTICC, Cape Town
Sasol New Signatures, PTA Art Gallery, Pretoria

2003
Brett Kebble Awards Exhibition, CTICC, Cape Town
Krisp, Art.B, Bellville

Collections

Hollards, Johannesburg, South Africa
Rand Merchant Bank, Johannesburg, South Africa
Sasol, Johannesburg, South Africa
Didata, South Africa
Nando’s, United Kingdom
McMillan Publishing, Johannesburg, South Africa

Teaching

2004 Part-timer Lecturer, Boland College, Paarl, South Africa