Jonathan Silverman

Jonathan Silverman is a visual artist who works primarily in the mediums of painting, digital painting and video. Of an Anglo-Tunisian background, he was born in Manchester, UK, and grew up in Israel, moving to italy in 2001.

He holds a BFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy (cum laude, 2006), and a PgDip from The Royal Drawing School, London (2011). He received the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for excellence in representational painting both in 2009 and in 2010. In 2012 he was artist in residence at the Sanskriti Foundation in New Delhi, and in 2015 was selected for the BoCs residency programme in Cosenza, Italy. He has taught at the Royal Drawing School in London, at the IIFA in India, has been a visiting lecturer at Rhodes University and runs regular art classes in collaboration with ArtWorks For Youth (NGO).
Silverman has exhibited extensively in South Africa and internationally (Italy, UK, Israel, Portugal, India), and has work in various private collections as well as the Royal Collection.
He currently lives and works in South Africa.

2010 - 2011

PGDip Drawing, Royal Drawing School, London, UK

2001 - 2006

BFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy

Selected Exhibitions

2020 Investec Cape Town Art Fair, 99 Loop Gallery booth, Cape Town, SA
2020 Future Without N, 99 Loop Gallery, Cape Town, SA (solo)
2019 Psithurism, DAOR Contemporary, Cape Town, SA
2019 Territory, Glen Carlou Gallery, Curated by Pierre le Riche, Glen Carlou Estate, SA, Catalogue
2019 Searching for an Electric Peanut [part II], Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town, SA (solo), Catalogue
2018 The Cat Show, David Krut Projects, Johannesburg, SA Catalogue
​2018 Rethinking Boundaries, Priest Gallery, Johannesburg, SA , Catalogue​
2018 Searching for an Electric Peanut, Priest Gallery, Johannesburg, SA (solo), Catalogue
2018 National Arts Festival, Monument Gallery, Grahamstown, SA​
2018 Collective Ink, The Henry George Gallery, Johannesburg, SA​
2018 Collective Ink, Gutsche Family Investments Gallery, Port Elizabeth, SA​
2017 BoCs Art Museum Opening, BoCs Art Museum, Cosenza, Italy​
2017 Painterly, Grande Provence Gallery, Franschhoek, SA​
2017 Portraits (collective exhibition), Gutsche Family Investments Gallery, Port Elizabeth, SA
2017 Winter Exhibition, DF Contemporary, Cape Town, SA
2017 Modern Miniatures, Underculture Contemporary & ART on Target, Port Elizabeth>> NAF Grahamstown, SA​
2017 Sublime,...