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Sam Nhlengethwa
Sam Nhlengethwa was born in 1955, in Payneville, Springs, a mining community situated a short distance east of Johannesburg. Between 1977 and 1978 he completed a two year Fine Art Diploma at the Rorkes Drift Art Centre, after which he has exhibited extensively across the globe.
After graduating he taught part-time at the Federative Union of Black Artists (FUBA) in Johannesburg. He stands today as one of South Africa’s finest pioneer black artists and his work explores themes such as music, specifically jazz, and the mechanics of everyday living. He works with found printed images from posters and magazines, including his recollections of township life.
Nhlengethwa was urban born and raised and therefore relates intimately to township existence, not only in his collages but also in his prints. Nhlengethwa has received various prestigious awards throughout his career and has attended workshops in New York, Senegal and Cuba. He has participated in group exhibitions since the early 1980s in Germany, France, the United States and Botswana.
He has held many solo exhibitions at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, as well as several two-person shows. His work is represented in major public and corporate art collections in South Africa and abroad.
‘[Sam] Nhlengethwa is an artist curious about the intimacies of home, an artist drawn to the immediacy of his surroundings, and – importantly – an artist whose work has sometimes reflected upon the epochal moments defining recent South African history … Renowned for his collage cut-ups, Sam Nhlengethwa’s use of photomontage is noteworthy for its restraint.’ Sean O’Toole, 2003
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