Sam Nhlengethwa

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Makeba and Kuti

2019 Mixed media on canvas

Inspired by Romare Bearden and Ernest Cole

2018 Mixed media on canvas Work: 120 x 220 cm

Waiting behind the stage

2018 Mixed media on canvas Work: 140 x 140 cm

Near the Station (Drum)

2016 Woven mohair tapestry 210 x 175 cm Available: R500,000 Add to My Selection

Tribute to Ephraim Ngatane

2014 Collage, acrylic and oil on canvas Work: 180 x 240 x 10 cm Available: R280,000 Add to My Selection

(Waiting) ... to be rescued I

2018 Mixed media on canvas Work: 100 x 140 x 10 cm

The Exit

2015 Oil and acrylic on canvas Work: 92 x 105 cm

...to be rescued II

2018 Mixed media on canvas Work: 100 x 140 x 10 cm

Solo

2019 Mixed media on canvas Work: 60 x 50 x 5 cm

Tribute to Henri Texier

2012 Acrylic and collage on canvas Work: 150 x 200 x 10 cm Available: R280,000 Add to My Selection

East View: Corner Nugget and 125 Kerk Streets.

2019 Mixed media on canvas Work: 95 x 115 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Rushing

2016 Painted bronze Work: 160 x 100 x 45 cm

The fire place

2020 Mixed media on canvas Work: 130 x 110 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Ode to Miriam Makeba

2016 Lithograph

Tuning in

2020 Mixed media on canvas Work: 130 x 110 cm

Floral cushions

2020 Mixed media on canvas Work: 130 x 110 cm

My daughter's grand piano

2020 Mixed media on canvas Work: 130 x 110 cm

Red chair

2020 Mixed media on canvas Work: 130 x 110 cm

Bathroom

2020 Mixed media on canvas Work: 130 x 110 cm

Pye turntable, diptych

2020 Mixed media on canvas Work: 130 x 220 cm

Forced Removal

2016 Lithograph

About

Sam Nhlengethwa was born in the black township community of Payneville near Springs (a satellite mining town east of Johannesburg), in 1955 and grew up in Ratanda location in nearby Heidelberg. In the 1980s, he moved to Johannesburg where he honed his practice at the renowned Johannesburg Art Foundation under its founder Bill Ainslie.

Nhlengethwa is one of the founders of the legendary Bag Factory in Newtown, in the heart of the city, where he used to share studio space with fellow greats of this pioneering generation of South African artists, such as David Koloane and Pat Mautloa.

Despite Nhlengethwa’s pioneering role in South Africa art, his work has received rare visibility in London. A major survey exhibition, titled Life, Jazz and Lots of Other Things, was hosted by SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia in 2014, which was then co-hosted in Atlanta by SCAD and the Carter Center.

Other notable exhibitions and accolades in South Africa and around the world include: in 1994 – the year South Africa held its first democratic elections – Nhlengethwa was awarded the prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year award; in 1995, his work was included in the Whitechapel Gallery’s Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa in London; in 2000, he participated in a two-man show at Seippel Art Gallery in Cologne.

Other significant international group exhibitions include Constructions: Contemporary Art from South Africa at Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi at in Brazil in 2011, Beyond Borders: Global Africa at the University of Michigan Museum of Art in 2018.

Nhlengethwa’s work has featured on a number of international biennales: in 2003, his work was included in the 8th Havana Biennale, Southern African Stories: A Print Collection, the 12th International Cairo Biennale in 2010, the 2013 Venice Biennale as part of the South African pavilion, titled Imaginary Fact: Contemporary South African Art and the Archive, and in the 6th Beijing Biennale in 2015.

Nhlengethwa’s practice features in important arts publications, such as Phaidon’s The 20th Century Art Book (2001).

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Exhibitions

Sam Nhlegethwa || Interiors continued

09 July - 31 August 2020

Sam Nhlengethwa / Joburg Selected

12 October - 16 November 2019

Sam Nhlengethwa / Waiting/ / 2018

08 November - 01 December 2018

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News

Sam Nhlengethwa launches print retrospective exhibition catalogue

Posted 01 August 2019

Print retrospective show for Sam Nhlengethwa at the Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg

Posted 04 June 2019

Koalane and Nhlengethwa on group exhibition at the University of Johannesburg

Posted 08 August 2018

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Press

Elephant: Has the Mantelpiece Lost Its Place at the Heart of the Home?

Sam Nhlengethwa / Sunday Times / 2019

Sam Nhlengethwa / Art Throb / October 2018

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