Mbali Dhlamini

Mbali Dhlamini (born 1990 in Johannesburg, South Africa)^[1] is a South African artist. She works predominantly photographically and time-based.^[2] From 2008 to 2009, she studied printmaking at the Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg. She then studied Visual Arts at the University of Johannesburg, where she obtained a Bachelor of Technology in 2013. She then studied at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, from 2014, graduating with a Master of Arts in 2015.^[3] In her work, Dhlamini deals with postcolonial issues: with spirituality (Series "Non-Promised Land: Bana Ba Thari Entsho") and with the craft of indigo dyeing in Senegal (Series "Look Into").^[4] From October to December 2021, she was Artist in Residence of the Embassy of Foreign Artists of the Swiss Canton of Geneva.^[5] In December 2021, together with Phumulani Ntuli, she received the Visionary Award 2021/2022 from The Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria.^[6] Mbali Dhlamini lives in Johannesburg.^[7]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2022: Go Bipa Mpa Ka Mabele, Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt am Main
2015: Non-Promised Land: Bana Ba Thari Entsho, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg

Group exhibitions

2021: Friendship. Nature. Culture, Daimler Kunst Sammlung, Berlin^[8]
2021: Salon Globalisto, Galerie Bonne Espérance, Paris^[9]
2020: Spatial Fabrications: An Uninhabitable World, Fak'ugesi Festival, Johannesburg
2020: Turbine Art Fair (LL Editions), Johannesburg
2019: Personal Structures, European Cultural Center, Venice, Italy
2018: AKAA - Also Known As Africa (Red Room Gallery), Paris, France
2016: Woza Moya, Goethe on Main Project Space, Johannesburg
2016: Affordable Art Fair (Vula Amehlo Art Development), New York, USA
2015: See Africa, African Futures Festival (Goethe Institute), Johannesburg
2015: TWENTY: Art in the Time of Democracy, University Johannesburg; Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa; Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China
2014: Only Parts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
2014: The Longest Night, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
2014: South African Voices: A New Generation of Printmakers, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
2014: Sasol New Signatures, Association of Arts Pretoria, Pretoria
2013: Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, University of Johannesburg
2013: Afrika Rea Bolela (Afrika Let's Talk): ARTiculating the Constitution, Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg
2013: Afrika Day, Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg
2013: North-South: Student Showcase, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria; Central University of Technology Bloemfontein; University of Johannesburg; Vaal University of Technology, Gauteng, Südafrika
2012: Images of Women, Upstairs at Bamboo (Vula Amehlo Art Development), Johannesburg
2012: Bronze Age(less), Pretoria Art Association
2009: Artist Proof Studio End-of-the-Year Exhibition, Artist Proof Studio, Johannesburg
2008: Bell Dewar and Artist Proof Studio Patronage Exhibition, Bell Dewar, Johannesburg

References

[1] ttps://cargocollective.com/mbalidhlamini

[2] ttps://www.eofa.ch/en/resident/mbali-dhlamini-2/

[3] ttps://cargocollective.com/mbalidhlamini

[4] ttps://www.mercedes-benz.art/media/Reader_Friendship.Nature.Culture_DE-1.pdf

[5] ttps://www.eofa.ch/en/resident/mbali-dhlamini-2/

[6] ttps://javettup.art/news/visionary-award-winner-announced

[7] ttps://www.mercedes-benz.art/media/Reader_Friendship.Nature.Culture_DE-1.pdf

[8] ttps://art.daimler.com/artist/mbali-dhlamini/

[9] ttps://flaunt.com/content/dj-mo-laudi-salon-globalisto

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