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Siwa Mgoboza.Pages Siwa Mgoboza Education 2012 – 2015 Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT| Cape Town, South Africa BA Fine Art – Painiting major [Distinction and Dean’s List] Solo Projects 2016 Africadia – Semaphore Gallery, Neuchatel, Switzerland If Found Return to Africadia – WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery, Cape Town 2015 Africadia – Graduate exhibition Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town Group Shows 2017 Here Forward - group exhibition, Matter Gallery, Toronto From The Horses Mouth – group exhibition, Ebony gallery, Cape Town Art Africa Fair – No Fairy Tail curated by Salimata Diop, Jubilee Hall, Cape Town Cape Town Art Fair – 50ty50ty Studios (Black River Productions), CITCC, Cape Town 2016 50ty/50ty Pop Exhibition – old Commune1, Cape Town Women’s Work – Iziko National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa AKAA (Also Known As Africa) - Performance in collaboration with Nobukho Nqaba, ArtMeetsCamera, Paris France Nanjing Internationl Arts Festival – Nanjing, China Lagos Photo Festival – Lagos, Nigeria Modern Africa / Rainbow Nation– NoLab pop-up exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey WHATIFTHEWORLD / SOUTHERN GUILD – WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery, Johannesburg NANO– Barnard Gallery, Cape Town Barlcay’s L’Atelier – top 100 finalist, Absa Towers, Johannesburg Turbine Art Fair – 50ty50ty Studios (Black River Productions), Turbine Hall, Johannesburg Turbine Art Fair – Emerging Painters curated by Tanya Poole, Turbine Hall, Johannesburg Nothing Personal – SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa Being and Becoming – UNISA Art Gallery by !Kauru Contemporary African Art Project, Pretoria, South Africa PGH Photo Fair – Carnegie Museum of Fine Art, Pennsylvania, USA New Monuments – Commune1 Gallery, Cape Town Barlcays L’Atelier Western Cape Regional Finalist – Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town SA Taxi Awards – Lizamore and Associates, Johannesburg That Art Fair – Ebony Gallery, Cape Town Cape Town Art Fair - AVA Gallery (Association for Visual Artists) booth, Cape Town Back To The Future – Barnard Gallery, Cape Town 2015 Rose Korber Show – AVA Gallery (Association for Visual Artists), Cape Town But He Does Not Have Any Clothes On!– Commune1 Gallery, Cape Town High/Fine/Not Art – Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town Persistence of Memory – Untitled Studios, Cape Town Joburg Art Fair - Gallery (Association for Visual Artists) booth, Johannesburg Sasol New Signatures – Top 110 finalist Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria Printmaking Residency - The AVA Gallery (Association for Visual Artists), Cape Town Not From Here – Launch of First Thursday Jo’burg 70 Juta Street, Johannesburg Claims of The Land April 2015 - AVA Gallery (Association for Visual Artists), Cape Town Forming Impressions - AVA Gallery (Association for Visual Artists), Cape Town Cape Town Art Fair – AVA Gallery (Association for Visual Artists) booth Awards 2015 Eduard Louis Laden Art Bursary Michaelis Bursary Cecil Skotnes Award for most promising artist (Michaelis School of Fine Art) Nestlings Awards, Young + African Visual Artist Of The Year 2012 Michaelis Bursary Collections Mgoboza’s work is in several private and public collections; the University of Cape Town, The Friends of the National Gallery of Isreal, The University of South Africa Permanent Art Collection, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, USA The Stack Bar, Cape Town, The Laurete International Universities Collection, USA Wedge Curatorial Projects in Canada Pick N Pay Art Collection, Souh Africa BONHÔTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Switzerland Assistance Work 2019 Athi Patra-Ruga Miss Azania 2016 Nicholas Hlobo Sewing Saw performance. Stevenson Gallery 2015 WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery .
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