Nicholas Hlobo

News

Nicholas Hlobo has work on Out of Fashion: Textiles in International Contemporary Art at Gl Holtegaard in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 5 April to 7 July. He will be included in do it: the compendium, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Manchester International Festival and Manchester Art Gallery from 5 July to 22 September.

Current exhibition

JOHANNESBURG
25 April - 7 June 2013
TYAPHAKA AND OTHER WORKS

Exhibitions / Works

• Tyaphaka on Fiction as Fiction (Or, A Ninth Johannesburg Biennale) (Cape Town, 2012)
• Balindile on Frieze London (October 2012)
• Sukundipha Intlenge on What we talk about when we talk about love (Cape Town, 2011)
• Umtshotsho  (touring July 2009 - August 2010)
• Paintings  (Johannesburg, 6 May - 4 June 2010)
• Ingubo Yesizwe  (Cape Town, 4 June - 1 August 2009)
• Bhaxa, Iqinile, Ikhiwane on Self/Not-self  (Johannesburg, 26 March - 25 April 2009)
• Recent works on Summer 2008/9: Projects  (Cape Town, 27 November 2008 - 10 January 2009)
• Kwatsityw'iziko  (Cape Town, 6 March - 26 April 2008)
• New works on Summer 2007/8  (Cape Town, 28 November 2007 - 12 January 2008)
• New works on South African Art Now  (Cape Town, 29 November 2006 - 6 January 2007)
• Izele  (Cape Town, 17 August - 16 September 2006)
• Igqirha lendlela on South African Art 1848 - Now  (Cape Town, 2005)
• New works on In the Making: Materials and Process  (2005)
• Hermaphrodite  (2002)

Publications

• Trade Routes Revisited (2012)
• Nicholas Hlobo: Sculpture. Installation. Performance. Drawing  (2011)
• Nicholas Hlobo: Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2009  (2009)
• Kwatsityw'iziko  (2008)
• Izele  (2006)

Articles, Interviews

• Essay by Tracy Murinik (Kaleidoscope 15, 2012)
• Profile by Sean O'Toole (The Times, 29 April 2011)

Biography

Nicholas Hlobo was born in Cape Town in 1975, and lives in Johannesburg. He has a B Tech degree from the Wits Technikon, Johannesburg (2002). Solo exhibitions have taken place at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo (2011); in the Level 2 Gallery at Tate Modern, London (2008), and at the Boston ICA as part of the Momentum series (2008), among other institutions. In 2011 he showed newly commissioned work on ILLUMInations, the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale; his work also appeared in Venice on The World Belongs to You, works from the Pinault Collection at the Palazzo Grassi, and the Future Generation Art Prize exhibition at the Palazzo Papadopoli. Other notable group exhibitions include all our relations, the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012); La Triennale 2012 - Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); Touched, the Liverpool Biennial (2010); the third Guangzhou Triennial, China (2008); and Flow at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2008). He was the Tollman Award winner 2006, the Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2009, and the Rolex Visual Arts Protégé for 2010/11, working with Anish Kapoor as his mentor.
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