Jake Michael Singer (b. 1991, Johannesburg) is a transdisciplinary artist coalescing sculpture, photography, and painting, in a practice centred around materiality, myth and catharsis.
Most recently Singer has focused on large scale site-specific installations in the historically significant edifices of Istanbul Yedikule Hisarı (during the 17th Istanbul Biennal, 2022) and Küçük Mustafa Pasa Hamamı (2021).
Institutional exhibitions include Zeitz MOCAA, Norval Foundation, Nirox Foundation, Kampala Biennale, Dakart, South-African- National-Gallery, DTIC Dubai, Nirox Foundation and Istanbul Biennale (forthcoming).
Solo exhibitions include Gallery Tiny, New York (2020), THK Gallery, Cape Town (2019), Matter Gallery Toronto (2018), Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg (2018), 50 Golbourne, London (2017), Punt WG, Amsterdam (2017), Hazard Gallery, Johannesburg (2016).
Singer holds a degree from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (2013) and has studied at Central Saint Martins, London. He was the recipient of the Edoardo Villa Foundation Grant in 2016 and 2017, the youngest artist to receive this, and the only artist to receive it twice. Permanent public sculptures include ‘Dawn Chorus’ (2019), Johannesburg; ‘Roark’s Evacuation Plan’ (2016), Johannesburg and Flume, Istanbul (forthcoming). Singer has completed residencies in Istanbul, Amsterdam, Kampala and Cologne.
Singer and THK Gallery co-founded the Emergence Art Prize with Rand Merchant Bank in support of emerging artists in South Africa.