Jake Michael Singer

Jake Michael Singer Singer holds a degree from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (2013) and has studied at Central Saint Martins, London.

Jake Michael Singer (1991, Johannesburg) is a transdisciplinary artist coalescing sculpture, photography and painting, whose practice is primarily concerned with materiality, myth and catharsis. He is the recipient of the Eduordo Vila Foundation Grant in 2016 and 2017. Permanent public sculptures include Dawn Chorus (2019), Johannesburg; Roarks Evacuation Plan (2016), Johannesburg and Flume, Istan

bul (forthcoming). Singer has completed residencies in Istanbul, Amsterdam, Kampala and Cologne. Singer is represented by THK Gallery in Cape Town, Matter Gallery in Toronto, Muse Contemporary in Istanbul. Singer and THK Gallery co-founded the Emergence Art Prize with Rand Merchant Bank in support of emerging artists in South Africa.

My first time in the kaleidoscopic city of Athens. Honoured to install this work in the beautifully crafted home of clos...
02/12/2025

My first time in the kaleidoscopic city of Athens. Honoured to install this work in the beautifully crafted home of close friends.
Thank you, for making this possible, and for your kindness that carries everything forward.

Who are these works for?They are for anyone who looks at it. Creating these three works took a heroic effort. Working fo...
22/07/2025

Who are these works for?
They are for anyone who looks at it.

Creating these three works took a heroic effort. Working for months, day and night, weekdays and weekends, in the studio with ten technical assistants and three administrators. It’s a process that couples exhaustion and euphoria.

And when we finally had them standing and polished, I couldn’t believe what we had done. Even when looking at them, it’s hard to believe that they actually exist in the real world.

I feel so grateful to be the channel that brings these sculptures into existence, the conductor of this metaphysical orchestra.

Modeling in the photograph is the studio’s best looking technicians, Tinei and Kuda.

It was so much fun to conceptualize, realize and then materialize this 4m high work, Monumental Murmur (Aurora), at Schl...
15/07/2025

It was so much fun to conceptualize, realize and then materialize this 4m high work, Monumental Murmur (Aurora), at Schloss Leopoldskron during Salzburg Global Africa Focus Summit.

I also had the pleasure of giving a talk during the summit about art, creativity and the myriad multicultural hands that go into making these works.

Creative collaboration and cooperation is humanity’s greatest strength. It is what defines the abundance of our civilizations. It is makes life worth living.

I hope that these works are a testament to the extraordinary possibility’s of the African continent and the radiant capabilities of our people.

Man cannot live by bread alone.

Thanks to House of Arts .at for making this happen.

Throw back to last year at House of Arts, Salzburg. What a time with such great people!
02/05/2025

Throw back to last year at House of Arts, Salzburg. What a time with such great people!

The swans do not intend to cast their reflection, the water has no mind to receive it 📸 Trevor Stuurman
08/04/2025

The swans do not intend to cast their reflection, the water has no mind to receive it

📸 Trevor Stuurman

“Where the water does not collect, the moon does not dwell”-Mugai Nyodai Marmara Moon, 2025340x250x240cm Installed at No...
07/04/2025

“Where the water does not collect, the moon does not dwell”-Mugai Nyodai

Marmara Moon, 2025
340x250x240cm
Installed at Norval Foundation

08/02/2024

‘We will meet again in the Field’, opening this Saturday, 10 February to the end of March, .

I’m excited to announce my solo exhibition at THK Gallery, where I will be launching a new evolution of the Murmurations along with new material departures and paintings.

Opening times:
10am-2pm

Address: 52 Waterkant St, Cape Town, Western Cape

“And it is the same thing in us that is quick and dead, awake and asleep, young and old; the former are shifted and beco...
08/01/2024

“And it is the same thing in us that is quick and dead, awake and asleep, young and old; the former are shifted and become the latter, and the latter in turn are shifted and become the former.” – Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments

'Twoism'
3.4 x 2 x 2m
Marine-grade stainless steel
at DIFC

Allowing meaning to unfold between the individual, society, science, and the imperceptible substrate of universal awaren...
05/01/2024

Allowing meaning to unfold between the individual, society, science, and the imperceptible substrate of universal awareness.

“This is what resolution is. This is what things look like just before collapse.” Material experiment from my first solo...
01/01/2024

“This is what resolution is. This is what things look like just before collapse.”
Material experiment from my first solo show “Catastrophes”, at Hazard Gallery in 2016

29/12/2023

by the sea,
atop mountains,
in brutal winds
within the tropical wilds
or
beneath the stark and vast
steadfast in
Time’s labyrinth
for thousands of years…

Address

40 Rogers Street
Selby
2001

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