Johan Thom works across a variety of media including sculpture, video, performance, drawing, printmaking and photography. From a narrower focus on the body in his earlier work, Thom’s interest has gradually shifted to an exploration of the performative relationship between the body, materials and found objects — often generating messy, corporeal visual forms that extend, question and animate the various forces at stake in our changing, material relationship to the surrounding world. Thom completed a PhD in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art (UCL) in 2014 and is an Ampersand Fellow (NY). He has attended residencies in Bangladesh, Mexico, Switzerland and South Africa, with solo exhibitions at Nirox Foundation (2024/5), Kalashnikovv Gallery (2023) and The Goodman Gallery (2015) amongst others. Thom is based in Pretoria and is an Associate Professor of Fine Art in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Pretoria.