Portfolio: Jan Gerard Sekoto

Exhibitions

1939

Selborne Hall, (South African Academy), Johannesburg

Gainsborough Galleries, Johannesburg

First Solo-Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, Johannesburg

1940

Selborne Hall, (South African Academy), Johannesburg

Gainsborough Galleries, Johannesburg

1941

Selborne Hall, (South African Academy), Johannesburg

1942

Duncan Hall, (South African Academy), Johannesburg

1943

Gainsborough Galleries, (New Group), Johannesburg

Salisbury, Zimbabwe

1944

Argus Gallery, (New Group), Cape Town

Gainsborough Galleries, (Contemporary Art), Johannesburg

Jerome Gallery, Cape Town

1945

Cape Town

1946

Gainsborough Galleries, (Contemporary Art), Johannesburg

1947

Solo-Exhibition, Gainsborough Galleries, Johannesburg

Solo-Exhibition, Christie's Pretoria

1948

Solo-Exhibition, French Overseas Colonial House, Paris

Gainsborough Galleries, (New Group), Johannesburg

1948/50 

Tate Gallery, London, Belgium, France, Canada,USA, Netherlands

South African National Gallery, Cape Town

1949

Solo-Exhibition, Galerie Else-Clausen, Paris

1950

Solo-Exhibition, Galerie Vincent, Pretoria

1951

Stockholm, Sweden

1952

Van Riebeeck Exhibition, Cape Town

1953

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

1954

I.D. Booksellers Gallery, Cape Town

1955

Petit Palais, Paris

Lawrence Adler Gallery, Johannesburg

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Galerie Reflets de Paris, Hôtel du Parc, Paris

1956

Galerie Art Primier, Paris

1958

Lawrence Adler Gallery, Johannesburg

1959

Lawrence Adler Gallery, Johannesburg

1960

Solo-Exhibition, Galerie Saint-Placide, Paris

Salon d'Automme, Paris

Lawrence Adler Gallery, Johannesburg

1961

Galleria Santo Stefano, Venice, Italy

Adler Fielding Gallery, Johannesburg

1962

Adler Fielding Gallery, Johannesburg

1963

Morgenster Art dealers

Adler Fielding Gallery, Johannesburg

Durban Art Gallery

1964

Adler Fielding Gallery, Johannesburg

France 

1965

Adler Fielding Gallery, Johannesburg

Piccadilly Gallery, London

1966

Théâtre Daniel Sorano, Senegal

Pretoria Art Museum

Adler Fielding Gallery, Johannesburg

1967

Théâtre Daniel Sorano, Senegal

1968

South African Association of Arts, Pretoria

Solo-Exhibition, Senegalese Embassy, Paris

Solo-Exhibition, Galerie Marthe Nochy, Paris

1969

Solo-Exhibition, Galerie Christiane, Paris

1970

Galleri BB, Denmark

Gallery Randers, Stockholm, Sweden

1973

Galerie du Maraias, Bourges, France

Pretoria Art Museum

1975

Solo-Exhibition, Atlantic Art Gallery, Cape Town

1978

Solo-Exhibition, Galerie Art Premier, Paris

1980

Maison de l'Afrique, Paris

Johannesburg Art Gallery

Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg

1981

Johannesburg Art Gallery

1984

South African National Gallery, Cape Town

1986

Academy Gallery, Paris

Washington, DC., USA

Alliance Française, Pretoria

1986/87

Johannesburg Art Gallery

1988

Solo-Exhibition, Cassirer Fine Art, Johannesburg

South African National Gallery, Cape Town

Natalie Knight Gallery, Johannesburg

Johannesburg Art Gallery

1989

Johannesburg Art Gallery

University of the Witwatersrand

Standard Bank Arts Festival, Grahamstown

Honours and Awards:

1924

Prize for design of Botshabelo Training college badge

1937

Second prize May Esther Bedford Art Competition

1948

Sekoto's painting used on poster for exhibition of South African Art at the Tate Gallery, London

1959

Sekoto's poster for second Congress of Negro writers and artists in Rome.

1964

Exhibition of African Art, Nemours, France 

1968

XIXe Grand Prix International de Peinture de Deauville

1989

Honorary Doctorate by University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Collections

His work is represented in numerous collections world wide including:

Johannesburg Art Gallery

South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town

University of Fort Hare Collection

University of South Africa Collection, Pretoria

University of the Witwatersrand

Sowetan Newspaper Collection, Johannesburg

William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley

Municipal Collection of the City of Paris

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