JACKI MCINNES

(b. 1966 Durban, South Africa)

Jacki McInnes has practiced variously as an artist, arts writer and curator since obtaining her BA(FA) (with distinction) from UNISA in 2001. She won the UNISA Fine Art Faculty Medal in the same year and went on to complete an MFA at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT in 2004. In 2021, McInnes graduated with a PhD (Fine Art) at the Wits School of the Arts, University of Witwatersrand. McInnes lives in Cape Town and works between Cape Town and Johannesburg.

McInnes has received numerous awards including the Mixed Media category prize on the M-Web New Signatures Competition in 2000, a National Arts Council scholarship in 2003, and she was selected for the Pro Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland Artist’s Residency programme in 2004. McInnes won the Sacatar-Spier Contemporary Fellowship Award 2010. In 2011, McInnes (in collaboration with film-maker Peter Goldsmid) was a finalist in the inaugural Johannesburg GoodPitch² Documentary Film-making Competition. McInnes was the Kunstraum Sylt Artist’s Residency award winner for 2012. 

EDUCATION

2021: PhD (Fine Art), Wits School of the Arts, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

2004: Master of Fine Art, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

2001: Bachelor of Fine Art (Distinction), University of South Africa.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021: Filthy Rich/Dirt Poor, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg

2021: Cubicle, Everard Read/Circa Gallery, Cape Town

2015: Mountains of the Moon, Tammen & Partner Galerie, Berlin

2014: The Argonauts, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg

2012: de Magnete, University of Johannesburg Gallery, show travelled to North West University & University of Bloemfontein

2008: Strutting, Flying & Dying, ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg

2006: Patterns in Silence, Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg

2004: The Vocabulary of Ambiguity: For Her, Bell-Roberts Contemporary, Cape Town

2002: Salt in the Wound, AVA Gallery, Cape Town

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023: The Winter Show, Everard Read Cape Town

2022 & 2023: KKNK Liewe Land! And UJ Gallery, Johannesburg

2019: 51.3%, Daor Contemporary, Cape Town

2019: Nano: 1.3, Barnard Gallery, Newlands, Cape Town

2018: The Winter Show, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town

2017: Emerging Painters: The Graduate Show, The Forum Company, Turbine Art Fair

2017: Rethinking Kakotopia, University of Johannesburg Gallery

2016: When Tomorrow Comes, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg & Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town

2015: Bronze, Steel, Stone, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg

2014: 10 x 12 @ SA, Museo Bilotti, Rome, Italy

2014: 20 Years of Democracy, Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA

2014: Deconstructing Dogma, University of Johannesburg Gallery

2009: Urban Animal, ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg

2004: Inside Out, Christoph Merian Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland

2004: Aids Art/South Africa, South African National Gallery, Cape Town

2000: Xoe!² Site Specific, Nieu Bethesda & Grahamstown Festival

AWARDS

2012: Kunst:raum Sylt Quelle Artist’s Residency Award

2011: Finalist: Johannesburg GoodPitch² Documentary Film-making Competition (in collaboration with film-maker Peter Goldsmid

2010: Sacatar-Spier Contemporary Fellowship Award (Residency in Bahia, Brazil)

2004: Pro Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland Artist’s Residency Award

2003: National Arts Council Scholarship

2001: UNISA Fine Art Faculty Medal

2000: Mixed Media category prize on the M-Web New Signatures Competition

COLLECTIONS

2012: Hollard Etana House Collection, Johannesburg

2012: Ellerman House Contemporary Art Collection, Cape Town

2010: Institut Sacatar Collection, Bahia, Brazil

2008: ABSA Corporate, Johannesburg

2006: Joburg Art Bank, Johannesburg

2004: Christof Merian Foundation Collection, Basel, Switzerland

2002: Wellesley College Collection, Massachusetts, USA

2001: ABSA Capital, Johannesburg

2001: City of Cape Town Collections, Cape Town

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2016: When Tomorrow Comes, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg & Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town (co-curated with Michael Titlestad & Jyoti Mistry)

2010: Ecotopian States, University of Johannesburg Gallery

2009: Domestic, GoetheonMain, Johannesburg (co-curated with Melissa Goba)

2007: A Legacy of Men, Johannesburg Art Gallery