SWAIN HOOGERVORST

(b. 1988 Cape Town, South Africa)

  Swain Hoogervorst is based in Cape Town. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts from Vega (2010). He was selected as a top 100 finalist in the L’atelier Competition in both 2013 and 2015. Residencies include Schildersweek in the Netherlands (2013), Arteles Creative Centre in Finland (2015), Mas des Graviers in France (2019) and most recently, Cité internationale des arts in Paris (2022). Hoogervorst has participated in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally. His first solo exhibition Inside Out was at the AVA Gallery in Cape Town (2014). Searching Eudaimonia (2017) marked his solo debut at the Everard Read Gallery in Cape Town, followed by In Between Spaces (2020), his second solo at Everard Read, by whom he is represented in South Africa and London in the UK. His work can be found in public collections (including the Spier Arts Trust South Africa), as well private collections in the US, UK, Brazil, France, Belgium, Germany, and Australia.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022        Time is a Long Thin Hand, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

2020         In Between Spaces, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2018        Making Pictures, CUBICLE Series, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2017        Searching Eudaimonia, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2014         Inside Out, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

RESIDENCIES

2022         Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France             

2019         Mas des Graviers, Pourrières, France

2015        Arteles Creative Centre, Haukijärvi, Finland

2013        Schildersweek, Domburg, the Netherlands

ACHIEVEMENTS

 2015  Top 100 Barclays L’Atelier Competition

2013  Top 40 finalist Absa L’Atelier Competition

2013  Invited artist at Schildersweek, Domburg, the Netherlands

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022         Spring, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

2021        In Conversation, Everard Read, Cape Town

                  Summer Show, Everard Read, Cape Town

2020         Proxies, Gallery Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

                  STILL, digital exhibition, Everard Read, UK & South Africa

2019         Summer Show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

                  Land and Sea, Art on Avenues, Somerset West, Cape Town, South Africa

                  New Small Paintings, Pop Up Exhibition, Roodebloem Studios, Cape Town, South Africa

                  Winter Show, Everard Read CIRCA, Cape Town, South Africa

2018         Summer Show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

                  Nano 1.2, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

                  Making Pictures, Cubicle Series, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

                  Winter Show, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

                  In the forests of the night, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

                  Investec Cape Town Art Fair, with Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2017        Nano 1.1, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

                  Spectrum, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2016        Liminal Geographies, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

                  Line and Shadow, Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

                  Death of the old, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

                  Stars and Tracks, The Project Room, Windhoek, Namibia

                  For what it’s worth, No End Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa

                  Pastoral Abstraction, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2015        Defining the Narrative, Gallery MOMO, Cape Town, South Africa

                  Homage, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

2014         Pool Party, Alma Martha Project Space, Cape Town, South Africa

                  Golden Haze, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa

                  /SCAPE, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa

2013        One in a Million, Salon 91, Cape Town, South Africa

                  Absa l’Atelier, Best 100 exhibition, Johannesburg, South Africa

                  Schildersweek, Domburg, Netherlands

2012         Summer Show, Salon91, Cape Town, South Africa

                  {Impression; Sunset} Salon91, Cape Town, South Africa

PUBLICATIONS

2015      Art Needs You, The Barclays L'Atelier Award, Dr Paul Bayliss

2014       Art South Africa Volume 13 issue 02 The Controversy Issue, Brendon and Suzette Bell-Roberts

2013      Imagine the untapped talent of the subconscious, The Absa L'Atelier Award

REVIEWS & FEATURES

Art Pod E13 - Interview with Swain Hoogervorst
https//www.facebook.com/blendedpodcasts/videos/470156690282740/

 Ends and Means Swain Hoogervorst's 'Searching Eudaemonia' (2017)
https//artthrob.co.za/2017/05/25/ends-and-means-swain-hoogervorsts-searching-eudaimonia/

 Investing in Art Swain Hoogervorst (2016)
http//tailsofamermaid.com/2016/02/investing-in-art-swain-hoogervorst.html

 In Finland with Swain Hoogervorst (2015)
https//soundcloud.com/los_individuos/situational-radio-in-finland-with-swain-hoogervorst

Bright Young Things Swain Hoogervorst (2014)
http//artafricamagazine.org/december-2014-swain-hoogervorst/

Inside Out, an Exhibition of Paintings by Swain Hoogervorst (2014)
http//10and5.com/2014/05/16/inside-out-an-exhibition-of-paintings-by-swain-hoogervorst/

 Featured Swain Hoogervorst (2013)
http//10and5.com/2013/09/17/featured-swain-hoogervorst/

Ray-Ban Presents The #envisionseries (2013)
https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0D4RwsuwCk