Nicholas Hlobo

NEWS: Nicholas Hlobo is the Rolex Visual Arts Protégé for 2010/11, working with Anish Kapoor as his Mentor. He is also one of 21 artists shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize; an exhibition by the shortlisted artists will take place at the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev from 29 October to 26 December. Hlobo is the Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2009, with an exhibition touring South Africa until 15 August 2010 (for schedule see link below). He is included on Ampersand at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, from 10 June to 10 October, and has been selected for the Liverpool Biennial opening 18 September 2010. He has a solo show at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Lacoste, France (7 July - 28 August).

STANDARD BANK YOUNG ARTIST EXHIBITION

Umtshotsho (touring July 2009 - August 2010)

RECENT EXHIBITION

Paintings at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (6 May - 4 June 2010)

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

Ingubo Yesizwe (4 June - 1 August 2009)
Bhaxa, Iqinile, Ikhiwane on Self/Not-self at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (26 March - 25 April 2009)
Umphanda ongazaliyo and works on paper on Summer 2008/9: Projects (27 November 2008 - 10 January 2009)
Kwatsityw'iziko (6 March - 26 April 2008)
New sculpture and mixed media works on Summer 2007/8 (28 November 2007 - 12 January 2008)
New sculpture and mixed media works on South African Art Now (29 November 2006 - 6 January 2007)
Izele (17 August - 16 September 2006)
Igqirha lendlela on South African Art 1848 - Now (2005)
Vanity on In the Making: Materials and process (2005)
Umtya nethunga on In the Making: Materials and process (2005)
Hermaphrodite (2002)

Click here to read Hlobo's statement on his working process for the exhibition In the Making: Materials and process.

PUBLICATIONS

BIOGRAPHY
Nicholas Hlobo was born in Cape Town in 1975, and has a B Tech degree from the Wits Technikon (2002); he lives in Johannesburg. In 2008 he had a solo exhibition, Uhambo, in the Level 2 Gallery at Tate Modern, London, and showed at the Boston ICA as part of the Momentum series. Recent group exhibitions include Dada South? at the South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2009); Beauty and Pleasure in South African Contemporary Art at the Stenersen Museum, Oslo (2009); Gender, (Trans) Gender and (De) Gendered, a special project of the Havana Biennale, Cuba (2009); Mythologies at Haunch of Venison, London (2009); the third Guangzhou Triennial, China (2008); Flow at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2008); Home Lands/Land Marks at Haunch of Venison, London (2008); and .za: giovane arte dal Sudafrica at Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena (2008). He was the winner of the Tollman Award for the Visual Arts 2006. Full CV