Nandipha Mntambo

NEWS: Nandipha Mntambo is included on Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (10 September - 10 December 2008), travelling to the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (31 January - 26 April 2009).

LATEST WORK

Europa and Mlwa ne Nkunzi on Disguise (15 May - 5 July 2008)

EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

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

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 Olvida Quien Soy - Erase me from who I am at the Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas (2007); Apartheid: The South African Mirror at the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (2008); and .za: giovane arte dal Sudafrica, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena (2008). Her works, predominantly using the shaped and stiffened hides of cows, as well as bones, beads and other materials, explore and offer challenges to stereotypical ideas of femininity and the female form. Full CV