M O H A U M O D I S A K E N G
Born 1986, Soweto. Lives and works in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa.
Education
Bachelor of Art in Fine Art, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, 2009 Master of Art in Fine Art, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, 2015
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Mohau Modisakeng, Chavonnes Battery Museum (in partnership with Zeitz MOCAA), Cape Town, South Africa To be titled, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria To be titled, Big Pond Artworks, Munich, Germany
2014 Ditaola, BRUNDYN+, Cape Town, South Africa Inzilo, LOOP 2014, Barcelona, Spain Mohau Modisakeng, Loop Barcelona, Hotel Catalonia Ramblas, Barcelona, Spain
2012 Untitled: Sasol New Signatures award for 2011, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
2010 Ibutho, Side Gallery, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Group Exhibitions
2015 NIROXSCULPTURE: Winter 2015, Nirox foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa AFIRIperFOMA, Lagos, Nigeria
2014 Anyway the Wind Blows, Brundyn+, Cape Town, South Africa Here Today, The Old Sorting Office, London, UK Performing Portraiture, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, USA Fearless Renewal, MC Theater, Amsterdam, Netherlands Ukukhumula, GIPCA Live Art Festival, City Hall, Cape Town, SOuth Africa Barongwa: Blindspot, Grahamstown Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa Personal/Political, 21C Museum, Louisville, USA Art Against the Wall: An Artist Response to Civil Wars, curated by Radcliffe Bailey, Gallery 72, Atlanta, USA Brave New World…20 Years of Democracy, IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa START Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK !Kauru 2014: Rerouting Dialogue 1994-2014, UNISA Gallery, Pretoria VOLTA NY, Brundyn+Gonsalves, New York, USA
2013 Ceci n’est pas une Summer Show, BRUNDYN+, Cape Town, South Africa Biennale Internationa d’Art Contemporain (BIAC), Fort de France, Martinique Am I not a Man and a Brother? Am I not a Woman and a Sister, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, USA Inzilo, Video Art Powered by Samsung special project, FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa FNB Joburg Art Fair, BRUNDYN +, Johannesburg, South Africa VOLTA NY, BRUNDYN + GONSALVES, New York, USA
2012 Sera, Master of Fine Art exhibition, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa NEWSFEED: Anonymity & Social Media in African Revolutions and Beyond, MoCADA, New York, USA Material Representation, BRUNDYN + GONSALVES, Cape Town, South Africa FNB Joburg Art Fair, BRUNDYN + GONSALVES, Johannesburg, South Africa Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal Uneveness Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Exuberance Project Exhibition, Mandela Rhodes Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2011 Implemented Environments, Brundyn + Gonsalves, Cape Town, South Africa Business Day, FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa Focus 11, Basel, Switzerland
2010 A RE FANON, with Lerato Bereng, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa This is our time, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa Greatest Hits, AVA, Cape Town, South Africa MTN New Contemporarie, Durban, South Africa Spier Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
2009 Ugufa Unezindaba, Graduate exhibition, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa
Awards and Residencies
2015 Nirox Foundation Residency, Johannesburg, South Africa Segera Retreat and the Zeitz Foundation Residency, Segera, Kenya
2011 Winner, SASOL New Signatures Art Competition, Pretoria IAAB - International Artists Exchange Program, Basel
2010 Finalist, MTN New Contemporaries Awards, Durban Spier Residency Award, Gyeonggi Creation Center, South Korea
2009 Merrill Lynch Scholarship, University of Cape Town, Cape Town