Jake Michael Singer (1991, Johannesburg) is a transdisciplinary artist coalescing sculpture, photography and painting, whose practice is primarily concerned with materiality, myth and catharsis. Singer holds a degree from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (2013) and has studied at Central Saint Martins, London. He is the recipient of the Eduordo Vila Foundation Grant in 2016 and 2017.

Jake Michael Singer is represented in South Africa, Canada and Turkey. Singer, who has experienced different art fields such as photography and paper art, has a superior control in sculpture. Jake Michael Singer Drawing inspiration from the emergent behaviour of flocking birds, where the individual is subsumed in the whole; and meditating on the timeless monumentality of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, his Murmurations series speaks to our time. Meticulously constructed, using up to sixteen thousand meters of marine grade stainless steel for a single sculpture, the Murmurations series establishes his position as one of the leading young sculptors from Africa.

Besides his solo exhibitions in Europe, he took part in many group exhibitions in America and Africa after his graduation. His work features in private collections in South Africa, Germany, Greece, Canada, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and he has further completed two large-scale public sculptures in Johannesburg Dawn Chorus, part of the RMB Collection in the Think Precinct, and Roarke’s Evacuation Plan, a landmark on the Jo’burg skyline. In 2020, he launched the Emergence Art Prize with THK Gallery, which was supported by RMB.