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South Africa
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Title: Hurt
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Article 5: Freedom from Torture, Degrading Treatment
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| Jan Jordaan completed a BA Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria in 1973 and spent the next two years lecturing at Potchefstroom University and the Durban Institute of Technology. In 1984, he spent six months at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and repeated another six-month stint at this institute in 1991. In 1998, Jan Jordaan became a consultant to the Goree Institute on Goree Island, Senegal. |
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| 1998 saw him initiating the UDHR International Print Portfolio for Artists for Human Rights in Durban, South Africa. |
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| Solo exhibitions include: 1987 at the Carmel Gallery in Cape Town; 1990 and 1993 at the Technikon Natal. Selected group exhibitions include: 1996 Natal Biennale, Durban Art gallery; Jabulisa The Art from Kwa - Zulu – Natal, Standard Bank National Festival, Grahamstown; 1997 Printmaking in a transforming South Africa, Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown;1998 Wings of Desire, Menzi Mcunu Gallery, Bat Centre, Durban with Breyten Breytenbach and Sibusiso Maphumulo. |
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| International exhibitions include: 1994- Troisieme Trienale Mondiale dEstampes, Chamalieres, France; 1996 Groundswell Contemporary Art from South Africa, Mermaid Gallery, London , UK; 1996 The Naked Zebra Gallery, Convent Garden, London, UK. |
| His work has been shown multiple times in South Africa and abroad. Presently, he lectures printmaking at the Durban Institute of Technology and functions as director of Art for Humanity. |
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