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Jan van der Merwe

South African 1958- 

Jan van der Merwe was born in Virginia, Free State and grew up in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, where he matriculated in 1975. He lives and works in Pretoria and is a senior lecturer in Fine Arts at the Department of Fine and Applied Art, Tshwane University of Technology. His work is represented in a number of museums and corporate collections and has also won several awards. In 2006 the Pretoria Art Museum hosted a comprehensive retrospective exhibition, entitled: The Archaeology of Time. In 2013 he presented a solo exhibition, Time and Space, at Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein.

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