JODY PAULSEN ARTIST PORTFOLIO GALERIE DROSTE 2021 JODY PAULSEN Born 1987, lives and works in , South . He graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town, .

With his vibrant felt collages, Cape Town artist Jody Paulsen translates contemporary icons, clichés, and slogans of consumerism into his own understanding of popular culture using visual cues. The striking juxtaposition of abstract dra- maturgy and sensual lightness takes on a unique role: Wave-like patterns merge with nar‑ rative scenes that indulge in a vibrant color composition.

Allegorical images of bouquets of flowers, the fragments of which are so artfully arranged that with the help of the viewer's imagination they come together to form the appearance of a portrait, exert the effect of pareidolia. In the midst of individual flowers, unidentifiable in the real world, spring eyes that evoke the as- sociation of a strange figure. The artist enjoys arranging patterns, textures and color, impro- visationally, until a precise and at the same time delicate summary of different pieces can be read as a symbol, while the composition of each work evokes a familiarity of repetition. Art is where the heart heart the where is Art Droste Galerie is 7, Exhibition Online Paris, 2019 FNB Art Joburg - (SMAC MAX Section Gallery), Sandton Centre, Convention ZAF , Up: Dress Up, Speak Resistance, and Regalia Hotels, 21c Museum USA Cincinnati, Love, Ford Radical Gallery, Foundation USA City, York New Filling in the Gaps, South African Iziko National Gallery, Cape Town, ZAF 2018 Here, Were You Wish Cape Gallery, SMAC ZAF Town, FNB Joburg Art Fair Gallery), (SMAC Sandton Convention Centre, Johannes- burg, ZAF Making Africa: A Continent of Contem- porary Design, cura- Klein & Amelie ted by Okwui Enwezor, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, USA; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA Thrill is Gone: After the and Culture Fashion, in Contempo- Politics rary South African Art, curated by Andrew Town, Town, Town Town York, GROUP ant, ou , Galerie Droste, Droste, r, Galerie Armory Show Armory Show (SELECTED) SOLO SOLO (SELECTED) PERSON TWO AND EXHIBITIONS 2021 the about Something Wate GER Düsseldorf, 2019 The EXHIBITIONS 2020 Investec Cape Art Fair Cape Gallery, SMAC International Town Convention Centre (CTICC), Cape ZAF Show of Solidarity, A Cape Gallery, SMAC ZAF Town, Want It, Want Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape (UCT), Cape Town Town, ZA (SELECTED) (SMAC Gallery), Piers (SMAC 92 & 94, New USA 2018 Me, Water Gallery, SMAC Johannesburg, ZAF 2017 Untitled Art Miami Beach, Gallery, SMAC Miami, USA 2013 What You W Whenever Y

Jody Paulsen, Cheerful Chaplin, 2021, Felt Collage, 170 x 115 cm, 67 x 45 inch Hennlich, Museum of All Things Being FNB Joburg Art Fair, Anyway, The Wind the African Diaspora, Equal, Zeitz Museum (BRUNDYN+), Sandton Blows, BRUNDYN+, San Francisco, USA of Contemporary Art Convention Centre, Cape Town, ZAF Africa (MOCAA), Johannesburg, ZAF Passion Fruit, curated Cape Town, ZAF FNB Joburg Art Fair, by Brooklyn Fire Proof Fashion as Art, The (BRUNDYN+) Sandton Gallery, Temporary Making Africa: A Pavilion, Zeitz Museum Convention Centre, Storage Gallery, New Continent of Contem- of Contemporary Johannesburg, ZAF York City, USA porary Design, curated Art Africa (MOCAA), by Amelie Klein & Cape Town, ZAF This is Happening Now, Investec Cape Town Okwui Enwezor, High Gayfield Creative Art Fair, SMAC Museum of Art, Making Africa: A Con- Spaces, Edinburgh, Gallery, Cape Town Atlanta, USA tinent of Contempo- UK International Conven- rary Design, curated tion Centre CTICC), 2016 by Amelie Klein & START Art Fair, Cape Town, ZAF FNB Joburg Art Fair Okwui Enwezor, Vitra (BRUNDYN+, Saatchi SMAC Gallery, Design Museum, Weil Gallery), London, UK 2017 Sandton Convention am Rhein, Germany; After the Thrill is Gone: Centre, Johannesburg, Guggenheim Museum, MiArt Fair, (BRUN- Fashion, Culture and ZAF Bilbao, ES. DYN+), Fiera Milano Politics in Contempo- City, Milan, IT rary South African Art, UPSTART/STARTUP, First Donations, The curated by Andrew SMAC Gallery, Johan- Pavilion, Zeitz Museum Infecting the City, Hennlich, College of nesburg, ZAF of Contemporary Art Public Arts Festival, Wooster Art Museum African (MOCAA), Africa Centre, Cape (CWAM), Wooster; Cape Town Art Fair Cape Town, ZAF Town, ZAF Richmond Centre for SMAC Gallery, Cape Visual Arts, Kalama- Town International Do You Have Barbaric Cape Town Art Fair, zoo, Museum of the Convention Centre Tastes, curated by (BRUNDYN+), The Pa- African Diaspora, San (CTICC), Cape Town, Nicola De Ribou & vilion - V&A Water- Francisco, USA ZAF Le Commissaires front, Cape Town, ZAF Anonymes, 4TH Editi- X: Part III, SMAC Making Africa: A on of POPPOSITIONS, 2013 Gallery, Stellenbosch, Continent of Contem- Canal Warf, Brussels, Ceci n’est pas une ZAF porary Design, curated BEL Summer Show, BRUN- by Amelie Klein & DYN+, Cape Town, FNB Joburg Art Fair Okwui Enwezor, Forming Impressions: ZAF SMAC Gallery, Centre de Cultura The Ghost in the Sandton Convention Contemporánia de Machine, Association In Good Company, Centre, Johannesburg, Barcelona, Barcelona, for Visual Art (AVA) Universtiy of Cape ZAF Spain; Kunsthal Gallery, Cape Town, Town Irma Stern Rotterdam, NLD ZAF Museum, Cape Town, X: Part II, SMAC ZAF Gallery, Stellenbosch, 2015 2014 ZAF Young, Gifted and Zigzags, Skulls and 2012 Black, curated by Bananas – Oh and Mistakes, curated by Cape Town Art Fair Hank Willis Thomas, Max, W|E Projects, Chris Van Eeden, SMAC Gallery, Cape Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, ZAF Kerry Chaloner & Town International Johannesburg, ZAF. Matthew King, Cape Convention Centre, Town, ZAF Cape Town, ZAF 2011 InAWE Artist Resi- Jody Paulsen, Hot Girl, 2021, Felt Collage, 240 x 192 cm, 94 x 76 inch The Night Show, dence Programme, Goodman Gallery, InAweStays, Cape Cape Town, ZAF Town, ZAF

2010 2012 Sasol New Signatures Jules Kramer Depart- Award: mental Scholarship Top 100 Finalists, Award, University of Pretoria Art Museum, Cape Town (UCT), Pretoria, ZAF Cape Town, ZAF

Swallow My Pride, 2009 Blank Projects, Cape Katherine Harries Town, ZAF Print Cabinet Award, University of Cape 2009 Town (UCT), Cape Greatest Hits, Town, ZAF Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town, ZAF (SELECTED) COLLEC- 2008 TIONS Print ’08 Myth, Iziko South African Memory and Archive, National Museum, Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, ZAF Cape Town, ZAF Zeitz Museum of Con- temporary Art Africa (MOCAA), Cape Town, ZAF

(SELECTED) AWARDS Crystal Bridges Mu- & RESIDENCIES seum of American Art, Bentonville, 2016 Arkansas, USA. ImpACT Award for Design, The Arts & Sovereign Art Foun- Culture Trust, Johan- dation, Hong Kong, nesburg, ZAF Singapore, UK, Guern- sey, ZAF 2015 Emerging Designer of 21 c Museums Hotel, the Year, South Afri- Louisville, USA can Fashion Council, Cape Town, ZAF Matthais and Gervanne Leridon Collection, 2014 Paris, FR Sovereign Art Award, Cape Town Art Fair, Hollard Collection, Cape Town, ZAF Johannesburg, ZAF Scheryn Art Collec- 2015 Adriaan Kuiters + tion, Cape Town, ZAF Adrian Kuiters + Jody Jody Paulsen (A/W Paulsen (S/S 2016 2014 AK+JP Collec- The Royal Portfolio Collection, Vogue tion), Mercedes Benz Collection, Cape Italia: Who is on next), Fashion Week, Johan- Town, ZAF Vogue fashion Dubai nesburg, ZAF Experience, Dubai Nando’s Collection, Mall, Dubai, UAE 2013 London, UK Adriaan Kuiters + Adriaan Kuiters + Jody Paulsen (S/S Gerald Hatinger Fine Jody Paulsen, (S/S 2014 AK+JP Collec- Arts Collection, Vien- 2016 Collection), tion), Mercedes Benz na, AUS New York Fashion Fashion Week, Cape Week, Town, ZAF New York, USA Adriaan Kuiters, Adriaan Kuiters + (Artist’s Print Colla- FASHION COLLECTI- Jody Paulsen, (S/S boration, Julia Rosa ONS & COLLABORA- 2016 Collection), Clark, Georgina Gra- TIONS Mercedes Benz trix, Jody Paulsen), Fashion Week, Cape Town, ZAF 2019 Africa Fashion Inter- Neil Barrett & Jody national, Cape Town, Paulsen - collabo- ZAF ration (Men’s Spring 2020 runway collec- Adriaan Kuiters + tion), Milan, IT Jody Paulsen, (A/W 2015 AK+JP Collec- 2017 tion), Adriaan Kuiters + Cape Town, ZAF Jody Paulsen (A/W 2018 Spring Collecti- Adriaan Kuiters + on, Woolworths Style Jody Paulsen, (Inter- by SA), South African national Fashion Menswear Fashion Showcase), London Week, Johannesburg, Fashion Week, ZAF London, UK.

2016 Adriaan Kuiters + Adriaan Kuiters + Jody Paulsen (S/S Jody Paulsen (A/W 2015 Collection), 2016 Collection), Design Indaba South African Mens- Fashion Show, wear Fashion Week, Cape Town, ZAF Cape Town, ZAF 2014 Adriaan Kuiters + Adriaan Kuiters + Jody Paulsen (A/W Jody Paulsen (A/W 2016 menswear Col- 2014), Edinburgh lection), Pitti Uomo, Fashion Festival, Florence, IT Edinburgh, UK (SELECTED) PRESS RELEASES mg.co.za/article/2019-01-18-00-psychology- of-colour-texture/ www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-emer- ging-artists-discover-untitled-miami-beach www.artforum.com/picks/smac-art-gallery-ca- pe-town-66551 www.adjective.online/2017/03/23/late-stage- capitalism-luxe-m-thesen-law/ artthrob.co.za/2017/02/21/a-sisyphean-push- jody-paulsens-pushing-thirty/

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