Nandipha Mntambo

NEWS: Nandipha Mntambo was the recipient of a Wits/BHP Billiton fellowship in the first part pf 2010, and has taken up a four-month artist's residency in Cleveland, Ohio, from July to November. She was included in the 17th Biennale of Sydney and the 9th Dakar Biennale. Her work can be seen on Ampersand at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (10 June - 10 October); and PEEKABOO - Current South Africa at the Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (20 August - 16 January 2011).

LATEST EXHIBITION

Umphatsi Wemphi at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (10 September - 10 October 2009)

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

The Encounter (16 April - 30 May 2009)
As I Am on Self/Not-self at Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg (19 February - 21 March 2009)
Silence and Dreams on Summer 2008/9: Projects (27 November 2008 - 10 January 2009)
Europa and Mlwa ne Nkunzi on Disguise (15 May - 5 July 2008)
Nftombi mfana on Summer 2007/8 (28 November 2007 - 12 January 2008)
Ingabisa (16 August - 15 September 2007)
Iqaba lami on Afterlife (22 March - 8 April 2007)
Purge and Stepping into self on In the making: materials and process (2005)
Click here to read Mntambo's statement on her working process for this exhibition.
Balandzeli (2004)
Deity (2004)
Idle (2004)

PUBLICATIONS

The Encounter (2009)
Nandipha Mntambo (2007)

BIOGRAPHY
Born in Swaziland in 1982, Nandipha Mntambo graduated with a Masters in Fine Art (with distinction) from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, in June 2007. In 2005 she was the recipient of the Brett Kebble Art Awards Curatorial Fellowship, and in 2006 she was one of five young artists selected for the MTN New Contemporaries exhibition curated by Khwezi Gule at Johannesburg Art Gallery. Recent group exhibitions include SPace: Currencies in contemporary African art at Museum Africa in Newtown, Johannesburg (2010); Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in South African art at the Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK (2009); Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (2009); Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography, Bamako, Mali (7-13 November); Beauty and Pleasure in South African Contemporary Art at the Stenersen Museum, Oslo (2009); .za: giovane arte dal Sudafrica, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena (2008); and Apartheid: The South African Mirror at the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (2008). Full CV