Biography of Jaco van Schalkwyk
Jaco van Schalkwyk (b.1979) received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drawing from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY with Highest Honors. He was the recipient of the Pratt Circle Award for Academic Achievement in 2003 and editor of The Prattler student newspaper. He returned to South Africa in 2008. Van Schalkwyk's work has been included in private and corporate collections in South Africa, the USA and Europe. A survey of his work on paper, Drawings 2011-2013 is available from GALLERY AOP. His debut novel, The Alibi Club, was published in 2014 by Umuzi. Topoi, Tropi, Apotropos is his fourth solo exhibition with GALLERY AOP.
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