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Jan-Henri Booyens
b.1980, South Africa

BIOGRAPHY


Born in Johannesburg in 1980, Jan-Henri Booyens lives and works in Cape Town. He studied at the Durban Institute of Technology and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, and has taught in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Stellenbosch. Booyens was one-third of the infamous artist collective Avant Car Guard and his work is part of numerous collections, including the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris.

EXHIBITIONS


The Spectacle 2020.12.14–2021.02.28

SELECTED WORKS

— Available Works
#Chicks with dicks, #dudes with boobs, 2020, Oil on canvas, 200 × 171 cm wish you were here gone surfing, 2020, Oil on canvas, 171 × 200 cm Untitled, 2019, Oil on canvas, 200 × 171 cm #Chicks with dicks, #dudes with boobs (Detail), 2020, Oil on canvas, 200 × 171 cm wish you were here gone surfing (Detail), 2020, Oil on canvas, 171 × 200 cm Untitled (Detail), 2019, Oil on canvas, 200 × 171 cm