ARTIST PROFILE

Jenny Nijenhuis

  • South Africa (b. 1969 in Johannesburg)
  • Currently in Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • Jenny returned to her art practice in 2012 working in sculpture, installation and photography. Nijenhuis was a finalist in the 2017 Sasol New Signatures and in 2016 she initiated the SA’s Dirty Laundry installation.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015

  • Masters of Misdirection, Lizamore & Associates Gallery , Johannesburg, South Africa.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018

  • CLOSE, Johannesburg Art Gallery & Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa.

2017

  • Green Mountain Arts “Homage to the Muses”, The Studio , Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • UNUSUALLY USUAL, Galerie NOKO, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
  • Sasol New Signatures finalist group show, Pretoria Art Museum , Tshwane, South Africa.
  • Let's Play Outside Visual Culture, Studio WU - 1Eloff @Joziburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • It is not all Black and White, Art@TheClocktower, V&A Waterfront , Western Cape, South Africa.
  • Art@First - Pop Up Art Exhibition, RMB pop-up gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • Benevolent Confluence, Windrush, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • Mute W!sdom Curated by Gordon Froud, Art@Almenkerk, Western Cape, South Africa.

2016

  • SA's Dirty Laundry, SoMa Art + Space , Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • The Things we do for Love, SoMa Art + Space, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • No Man´s Land group exhibition, SoMa Art + Space, Johannesburg, South Africa.

2015

  • Lizamore@Clairvaux group sculpture exhibition, Clairvaux, Robertson, Western Cape, South Africa.
  • PPC Imaginarium finalist and group show, Young Blood Gallery in Cape Town., Young Blood Gallery , Cape Town , South Africa.
  • PPC Imaginarium finalist and group show Design Indaba , Design Indaba Expo, ICCCT , Cape Town , South Africa.
  • PPC Imaginarium finalist and group show UJ Gallery, UJ Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.

2014

  • Lovell Tranyr Art Trophy finalist and group show, Lovell Gallery, Cape Town , South Africa.
  • Point of Departure , Lizamore & Associates Gallery , Johannesburg, South Africa.

2012

  • CMYK group exhibition, Everard Read SPEKE Photographic, CIRCA on Jellicoe , Johannesburg, South Africa.

LOCATION

  • Born 1969 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.

EDUCATION

  • 1990 - 1993
    University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa
    Honors in Fine Arts in Sculpture