David Paton

David Paton is an Associate Professor and past head of the Department of Visual Art at the University of Johannesburg, where he teaches Drawing and Studio Practice at all undergraduate levels. He has also supervised over 25 postgraduate students, six of whom have received the prestigious Chancellor’s Medal for Meritorious Postgraduate Study. He is also appointed as a Senior Researcher at the Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts (JGCBA), Wits Art Museum (WAM), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg. He received his MAFA at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2001 with a dissertation titled ‘South African Artists’ Books and Book-objects Since 1960’ and his Ph.D. by Existing Published or Creative Work – awarded with no additions or corrections required – from the University of Sunderland, UK in 2019. David has curated numerous exhibitions of the book arts in South Africa and authored numerous catalogues of artist’s book exhibitions, some of which are to be found in prestigious international library collections. His artworks are held in local and international collections including the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, the MTN Collection, Anglo-American Corporation Collection, the Sasol Collection, the Art Bank SA Collection and the Lower East Side Print Cabinet, New York. His artist’s book ‘Speaking in Tongues: Speaking Digitally / Digitally Speaking’ can be found in the collection of the Jack Ginsberg Center for Book Arts, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt, the San Francisco Center for the Book, USA, the Templeman Library, Canterbury, UK and the von Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands. He is twice the recipient of the Ampersand Foundation Fellowship to New York (1999 & 2017) and was awarded the University of Johannesburg Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Award for Teaching Excellence in 2022. David is a National Research Foundation (NRF) C1-Rated Scholar. He is also the father of two sons.

× David Paton is an Associate Professor and past head of the Department of Visual Art at the University of Johannesburg, where he teaches Drawing and Studio Practice at all undergraduate levels. He has also supervised over 25 postgraduate students, six of whom have received the prestigious Chancellor’s Medal for Meritorious Postgraduate Study. He is also appointed as a Senior Researcher at the Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts (JGCBA), Wits Art Museum (WAM), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg. He received his MAFA at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2001 with a dissertation titled ‘South African Artists’ Books and Book-objects Since 1960’ and his Ph.D. by Existing Published or Creative Work – awarded with no additions or corrections required – from the University of Sunderland, UK in 2019. David has curated numerous exhibitions of the book arts in South Africa and authored numerous catalogues of artist’s book exhibitions, some of which are to be found in prestigious international library collections. His artworks are held in local and international collections including the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, the MTN Collection, Anglo-American Corporation Collection, the Sasol Collection, the Art Bank SA Collection and the Lower East Side Print Cabinet, New York. His artist’s book ‘Speaking in Tongues: Speaking Digitally / Digitally Speaking’ can be found in the collection of the Jack Ginsberg Center for Book Arts, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt, the San Francisco Center for the Book, USA, the Templeman Library, Canterbury, UK and the von Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands. He is twice the recipient of the Ampersand Foundation Fellowship to New York (1999 & 2017) and was awarded the University of Johannesburg Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Award for Teaching Excellence in 2022. David is a National Research Foundation (NRF) C1-Rated Scholar. He is also the father of two sons.

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