| Sam Nthlengethwa was born in Payneville, Springs, South Africa, on January 9th,1955. |
| EDUCATION | |
| 1976 - 1977 | Johannesburg Art Foundation (part-time) |
| 1977 - 1978 | Two-year Fine Art Diploma, Rorkes Drift Art Centre, Natal : (full-time) |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 1990 | Cassirer Fine Art (with guest Daniel Phaladi) |
| 1993 | 'Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow' Travelling show: Market Gallery, JHB; NSA Gallery (Durban); |
| 1994/5 | 'Homage to Jazz' Standard Bank Young Artist Award travelling show |
| 1995 | 'Senegalese Images' Goodman Gallery, Hyde Park, Johannesburg |
| 1996 | 'Mine Trip' Goodman Gallery, Hyde Park, Johannesburg |
| 1998 | 'Interiors' Goodman Gallery, Hyde Park, Johannesburg. |
| 2001 | 'Jozi People' Goodman Gallery, Hyde Park, Johannesburg |
| 2002 | 'All that Jazz ' Kubatana Moderne Gallery, Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| 2004 | 'Glimpses of the fifties and sixties' : Florence Lynch Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town. |
| 2005 | ‘Sam Nhlengethwa’, Axis Gallery, New York |
| 2006 | ‘Townships Re-visited’, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg. |
| 2008 | ‘Tributes’, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town |
| TWO-MAN SHOWS AND COLLABORATIONS | |
| 1987 | Two-man show with Madi Phala: Fuba Gallery |
| 1989 | Two-man show : with Gerard Sekoto, Cassirer Fine Art, Johannesburg |
| 2000 | Two-man show with Zwelethu Mthethwa : Seippel Art Gallery, Cologne, Germany |
| 2001 | ‘Sam meets Zwelethu’, a collaboration with Zwelethu Mthethwa : Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg. |
| 2004 | ‘In a City’, a collaboration with Andrew Tshabangu, Bag Factory Artists Studios, Fordsburg |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 1981 | Civic Centre, Kwa Thema, Springs Haenggi Gallery, Johannesburg |
| 1983 | Shell Gallery, Johannesburg |
| 1984 | FUBA Gallery, Johannesburg |
| 1985 | 'Tributaries', Africana Museum, sponsored by BMW |
| 1986 | Thupelo Show, FUBA Gallery |
| 1987 | The Art Foundation (Thupelo) |
| 1988 | Cassirer Fine Art, Johannesburg |
| 1989 | Thupelo Show, FUBA Gallery |
| 1990 | Thupelo Show, FUBA Gallery Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg |
| 1995 | 'Africa 95', Whitechapel, London UK |
| 1997 | 'Cross Over' Johannesburg to Nantes held in Nantes, France |
| 1998 | Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands The Art Salon, Bay Hotel, Cape Town |
| 1999 | '< South African Trade Exhibition, Mauritius 'Artery' Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town The Art Salon, Bay Hotel, Cape Town |
| 2000 |
'Artlook South Africa' : Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Chicago The Art Salon, Bay Hotel, Cape Town Project Conflux – a touring exhibition started in Cape Town |
| 2001 | The Art Salon, Bay Hotel, Cape Town |
| 2002 | 'Towards new Cultures' , Trevi Exhibition Area, Bolzano, Italy. 'South African Art from 1850 to 2002', Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg 'African & African American Shared Understanding Project' , Atlanta, Georgia 'Ubuntu', Malaysia |
| 2003 | 'Southern African Stories: A Print Collection' , Centre for Contemporary Art in the Fernandes Industrial Centre, Laventille, Trinidad and Tobago. Florence Lynch Gallery, Chelsea, New York. 8th Havana Bienale, Cuba |
| 2004 | 'New Identities - Contemporary South African Art ': Museum Bochum, Germany. 'POST – Contemporary South African photography ': Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 | 'Unity Series' at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland. |
| 2006 | 'Faces to Names': Alliance Francaise, Johannesburg ' Sam Nhlengethwa : Black Goats': Art on Paper, Johannesburg ‘From Apartheid to Democracy: The Freedom Struggle in South Africa and the American South’, Jimmy Carter Presidential Museum. Atlanta, USA. |
| COMMISSIONS | |
| 1991 | Illustrations for the Sunday Star Magazine Cover illustration for Alexandra Civic Association |
| 1993 | Weekly Mail Artists of South Africa Subscription promotion Cover Illustration for Urban Foundation magazine |
| 1994 | Paperback book cover design for None to Accompany Me by Nadine Gordimer Paperback book cover design for Chirundu by Eskia Mphahlele |
| 1995 | Pope John Paul II Illustration for the Sunday Times Magazine |
| 1996 | Gauteng Provincial Legislature |
| 1997 | Anglo American Corporation FEDSURE Life Assurance, Ltd. |
| 1998 | MTN Building, Sandton, Johannesburg |
| 2000 | Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Jazz |
| 2001 | Illustration for CD cover, posters and invitations |
| 2004 | Paperback book cover design for Soweto Inside Out by Joe Thloloe Hardbook cover design for Soweto Blues, Jazz & Popular music and Politics in South Africa by Gwen Ansell Designing of the Carlton Hotel Alumni commemorative plate |
| COLLECTIONS | |
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Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town Durban Art Gallery Johannesburg Art Gallery Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg Botswana Art Museum World Bank, USA Mobil Court, Cape Town Anglo American, Johannesburg Sasol, Johannesburg GENCOR, Johannesburg Standard Bank Head Office, Johannesburg BMW, Pretoria Mercedes-Benz, Johannesburg TELKOM ABSA Nedcor, Johannesburg Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg Johannesburg Stock Exchange SA Broadcasting Corporation, Auckland Park, Johannesburg DaimlerChrysler Headquarters, Pretoria Millennium Consolidated Investment, Sandton Private collections in South Africa and abroad | |
| NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS | |
| 1988 | AA Vita Awards Nominee |
| 1991 | AA Vita Awards Nominee Triangle International Artists Workshop, New York, USA |
| 1992 | Delfina Studio Trust Summer Award, London, UK AA Vita Awards Nominee |
| 1993 | Bertrams VO Art for Africa Finalist, Johannesburg Standard Bank Young Artist Award Winner for 1994 |
| 1994 | First National Bank Vita Awards nominee, Johannesburg TENQ African Workshop - Senegal, West Africa |
| 1995 | African Studies Association conference, Florida (USA) |
| 1996 | First National Bank Vita Awards Nominee |
| 1999 | Medicins Sans Frontiers project 'Art without Frontiers' , Dubai (UAE) where 40 international artists took part in painting the world’s longest painting to raise funds for MSF. |
| 2003 | Havana Biennale, Cuba |
| RELATED ACTIVITIES | |
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1992 - FUBA [Johannesburg] : Part-time teaching until mid -1992 2000 - College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Chicago, USA : Conducting Liberal Arts Workshops and presenting lectures in collaboration with Associate Professor Chuck Boone as part of the Artlook South Africa project. 2000 - Havana, Cuba : participant in the filming of the 'Afro-Cuban Connection' documentary 2000 - MTN Art Institute Community project : Conducting art workshops in various schools around the country 2000 - Gerard Sekoto Foundation Community project : Involved in a murals painting project with students (Northern Province & Sophiatown ) 2000 - 'Secure the Future' : a Bristol Myers Squibb art project to promote HIV/AIDS research. 2001 - Cameroon : 'Lines of Connection': an MTN Art Institute project - exhibiting and facilitating education workshops for students from Douala, Cameroon. 2001 - Gerard Sekoto Foundation project in partnership with Mamelodi Heritage Foundation, De Beers and Pretoria Art Museum in a murals painting project involving local students 2002 - 'Johannesburg Art City' visual arts exhibition Wall Project (part of the WSSD) 2002 - MTN Art Institute art competition judging in schools. 2003 - Matric Art Seminar project including an illustrated lecture to Art & Design students from PE Technikon and Rhodes University 2004 - London : Triangle Workshop networking with Sir Robert Loder | |
| PUBLICTIONS | |
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_______. 1999. The Money Standard. 1 (4) p26. _______. 1995. FNB Vita Art Now. p36. ISBN 0 620 20197 5 _______. 1997. 1997. Vuka SA. 2 (3) p6-7. ISSN 1025-2134 BARNES, R. 1999. The 20th Century Artbook. Phaidon Press Limited, London, p336. ISBN: 0 7148 3850 WILLIAMS, M. Jazz Heritage. 1999. Vol 4. Oxford University Press. p16-17. ISSN 1560-7720 GUEZ, N. 1992. L’ Art Africain Contemporain / Contemporary African Art: Guide Edition (Association Dialogue Entre Les Cultures). 92-94, p27. 1992-4. ISBN 2-909711 OLIPHANT, A. 1995. ‘A Human Face: The Death of Biko and South African Art' in Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa. Whitechapel Gallery, London, p258. OLIPHANT, A. et al. 2004. Democracy X: Marking the present, re-presenting the past. University of South Africa Press, Pretoria. PERRYER, S. ed. 2004. 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa. Bell-Roberts in association with Struik Publishers, Cape Town. ISBN:1868729877 HOBBS, P & RANKIN, E. 2003. Rorke’s Drift: Empowering Prints. Double Storey, Cape Town. ISBN: 1-919930-13-2 WILLIAMSON, S. 1989. Resistance Art in South Africa. David Philip, Cape Town. YOUNGE, G. 1988. ‘The Next Million Years’ in Leadership 7 (5). NAIL, Johannesburg, p 58-65. | |