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Io Makandal (b. 1987 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African interdisciplinary artist and ecofeminist best known for her drawings and installation art, which she often refers to as tactile drawings. Her artistic practice challenges the medium of drawing and is concerned with process, materialism, entropy, ecofeminism, environmentalism, and the binary between nature and artifice, living and dying, urban ecology, architecture, and the concept of the garden.

Personal Life
Io Makandal was born to the artist and graphic designer Iaan Bekker (father), who design the current Coat of Arms of South Africa and environmentalist and Permaculture farmer Michèle Schiess ( mother). Her paternal grandfather was Springbok rugby player Dolf (Rudolf) Bekker and her maternal grandfather was the Swiss-born, South African playwright, director and Jungian Mario Schiess. She grew up with an unconventional childhood in Pretoria and later moved to Johannesburg in 2003 with her mother and sisters where she completed school. In 2007 she moved to Cape Town to pursue her studies in Fine Art.

Career
Makandal received her BA in Fine Art from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town in 2010 where she studied sculpture and painting under the supervision of Jane Alexander (artist) and Virginia MacKenny. She returned to Johannesburg in 2013 where she is still currently based and working as an artist, researcher, graphic designer, and teacher.

Exhibitions
2019
 * Life in the Entropics, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg
 * Summer Show, Everard Read / Circa Gallery, Cape Town

2018
 * Rest, Draw, Rest, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg
 * Entanglement, Tomorrow's Today, Investec CTAF, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town


 * Penumbra, The Old Granary, Cape Town
 * Towards a Sentimental Cartography of Water, Greatmore Studio, Cape Town
 * Drawn In, TwilSharp Studios, Johannesburg
 * The Villa, The Villa, Johannesburg
 * Winter Show, Everard Read / Circa Gallery, Cape Town
 * Momento Mori, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg

2017
 * To Meet The Threshold, No End Contemporary Gallery, Johannesburg
 * Entropy into a Third Landscape, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg


 * Salad, Smith Gallery, Cape Town
 * One Colour At A Time: Contemporary Screenprints, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg
 * Snake Eyes, No End Contemporary Gallery, Johannesburg
 * The House, Twilsharp Studios, Johannesburg
 * Work / Play, Berman Contemporary Gallery, Johannesburg
 * Winter Show, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
 * Arising African Perspectives, LKB/G, Hamburg, Germany
 * Capturing State, KKNK Festival, Oudtshoorn

2016
 * FNB Art Fair Gallery Solo Projects, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg
 * Bonus Space, Nars Foundation, Brooklyn, New York


 * Material City, Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
 * Scramble for Africa, Kalashnikovv Galeri, Berlin, Germany
 * Authentic Thinkers, Priest, Johannesburg
 * L'Atelier Top 100, Absa Gallery, Johannesburg
 * From Whence They Came, Smith Gallery, Cape Town
 * Enjoyment of the Anti-Sublime, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg
 * Blank Spaces, Featuring highlights from the KKNK Festival, ABSA Art Gallery, Johannesburg
 * In the midst of things, KKNK Festival, Oudtshoorn
 * Travel, Fourth Wall Publishers, Johannesburg
 * Prologue, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg
 * Fifteen Hundred, NO END Gallery, Johannesburg
 * Sketch, Smith Gallery, Cape Town