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Katlego Tlabela
Medium:
Acrylic, Ink and Collage on Canvas, 2021
Dimensions:
76cm x 304cm
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ABOUT KATLEGO TLABELA
Katlego Tlabela (b. 1993, Pretoria, South Africa) is an artist who completed his 4th year of a BA in Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine art primarily majoring in printmaking. He is based between Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Regardless of his choice of major, Tlabela has always found himself predominantly concerned in the multi-disciplinary technical and creative processes of painting, sound, photography and sculptural installations – within each discipline; he finds ways to incorporate elements of print. Tlabela’s artistic interests have spanned from social and political crises in Post-Apartheid South Africa, the independent African continent as well as the United States of America. Resistance, protest, dialogues around race and positive methods of representation of the Black Body and Experience are visualized through text-based and visual works often revisiting history and relating it back to contemporary events.
The political and personal merges through Tlabela’s work, with pride and defiance.
Solo Exhibitions
2021 ‘Nouveau Riche’, Bkhz, Johannesburg, South Africa
2021 ‘Nouveau Riche’, North West University Gallery, Potchefstroom, South Africa
2017 ‘NEGRO SUNSHINE’, North West University Botanical Garden Gallery, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Group Exhibitions
2021 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York, United States of America
2020 ‘Medium is the Message’ (Working title) Unit London, London, England
2020 ‘Medium is the Message’ (Working title) TBD, Lagos, Nigeria
2020 ‘Habit At’, BKhz (Online), Johannesburg, South Africa
2019 ‘Keep Languages Alive’, D54, Johannesburg, South Africa
2019 ‘Mixed Messages’, Bkhz, Johannesburg, South Africa
2019 ‘Winter Salon’, Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa
2018 ‘PROOF’, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2018 ‘In To View’, EBONY CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 ‘From The Horse’s Mouth’, EBONY CURATED, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 ‘Disclosure’, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 ‘100 Years: University of Fort Hare Print Exchange’, Steve Biko Center and De Beers Art Gallery, Eastern Cape, South Africa
2017 Cape Town Art Fair (Eclectica Print Gallery) Cape Town, South Africa
2016 ‘Creative Destructions’, Eclectica Contemporary Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 ‘Unpacking’, Eclectica Contemporary Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 ‘Thami Mnyele Fine Art Awards’, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016 Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016 ‘Nothing Personal’, SMAC Gallery,Cape Town, South Africa
2016 ‘Meditative Moments’, Mullers Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 ‘Revisiting the Latent Archive in Sites’, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015 ‘Street Level’, World Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2015 ‘Revisiting the Latent Archive in Sites’, Greatmore Studios Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2015 ‘Return to Sender’, Center of African Studies Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2015 ‘Ganda the Rhino Project’, South Africa, Brazil, Poland and Portugal
2014 Turbine Art Fair (Represented by Blaque Inq Contemporaries), Johannesburg, South Africa
2013 Sasol New Signatures Top 93 Finalist exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa
Public collections
Fondation H Museum, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Projects
2020 Collaboration with Untitled
2020 Collaboration with Gazelle for From Africa With Love Album
2020 Collaboration with Danger Gevaar Ingozi Studios (TBD)
2020 Kaaysa Art Residency, Sao Paulo Brazil (TBD) Kleinood Komposjaart Artist Residency, Stellenbosch, Cape Town
2019-20 Spier Arts Trust: Creative Block Program (TBD)
Educational Background
2012-17 BAFA Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Academic Achievements
2014 Hoosein Mahomed Award in recognition of quality of work, Michaelis School of Fine Art
2013-15 Michaelis School of Fine Art Materials Bursary 2012 Vivian Cohen Award, Michaelis School of Fine Art 2011 1st Grade for Visual Arts, JG Meiring High School
Scholarships
2012 University of Cape Town Entrance Scholarship