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Garth Erasmus is a South African artist who was born on 12 April, 1956 in Uitenhage, South Africa. He is best known for his work in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and installation art. He has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in South Africa and abroad. Erasmus studied at the University of Port Elizabeth, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts in 1979. He then went on to study at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he obtained a Master of Arts degree in Fine Arts in 1983. Erasmus has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Standard Bank Young Artist Award in 1988, the Vita Award for Visual Arts in 1989, and the South African National Arts Council Award in 1990. Erasmus has been a professor of Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand since 1994. He is also a member of the South African National Arts Council. As of 2021, Garth Erasmus's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

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Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 12 April 1956
Birthday 12 April
Birthplace Eastern Cape, South Africa
Nationality South Africa

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2004

He has also provided illustrations for numerous books, including Nape 'a Motana's book of proverbs, published in 2004, as well as a volume of conversations with figures from Cape Town's District 6.

2002

Erasmus' work is represented in several art collections, including the National Museum of African Art and the Smithsonian Institution. Among other formats Erasmus is known for his Resistance Art protesting the apartheid regime in South Africa. Beginning as graffiti protest art his State of Emergency series depicts images of entrapment. Writing in a review of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Arts 2002 exhibition "Encounters With the Contemporary," critic Mark D'Amato called Erasmus' painting The Muse 3 (1995) "a highlight." Erasmus' work uses his archival research to approach his Khosian lineage, and drawing on figures from Khosian cosmology. Erasmus has "employed Afrikaans text to comment on the brutal Khosian history and its impact on present descendants, opening a window onto the way this history has been repressed."

1980

He attended Paterson High School in Port Elizabeth and later attended a teachers training program at Hewat Training College in Cape Town. He later attended Rhodes University, and founded the community artists organization Vakalisa Arts Associates in the Cape. He was a participant in the Thupelo Workshop program during the 1980s.

1956

Garth Erasmus (born July 1956, in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa) is a South African artist who works in several media, including painting.