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The 10 best living artists in South Africa. 3
By Andries Loots
27 February 2000
This week artist
Zwelethu Mthethwa is featured.
Zwelethu
Mthethwa ( 1960 - )
 'Renowned in
Cape
Town for his sartorial elegance, sharp eye and quick wit, Zwelethu
Mthethwa was born in Durban in 1960.Thwarting his parents' plans of him
becoming a doctor, Zwelethu enrolled at the Michaelis School of
Fine Art, UCT, where he obtained a Diploma (1984) and then an Advanced
Diploma in Fine Art in 1985.
As a recipient of the
Fulbright Scholarship, he studied at the Rochester Institute of
Technology in America where he graduated with a Masters in Imaging Arts
in 1989. On his return to South Africa he was snapped up by the
commercial world, but preferring academia, he began lecturing at the
Michaelis School in 1994 where he up to now left his distinctive imprint
on his art students.
The 1990's saw a huge
surge in Zwelethu's art career and he continued to be invited to
participate in countless international exhibitions and global biennales.
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Highlights in Zwelethu's
career
1984 - 1987
Awarded several prizes at UCT
1993 - Won the City of Abidjan prize at the Abidjan Biennale, Ivory Coast
1993 - Won the Bertrams' V O Award in it's national competition entitled
"Indigenous People"
1994 - Invited to judge work for the Volkskas Atelier competition
1996 - Elected as vice-chairperson of the Association for Visual Arts
1996 - Elected onto the Friends of the National Gallery committee
1997 - Nominated to the National Arts Council Advisory Panel for Visual
Arts
Selected Exhibitions
1994 - " Crosscurrents" Miami, Washington DC, USA
1995 - World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
1995 - "Africa 95" Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
1996 - Chicago Art Fair
1997 - "Lift Off" Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
1997 - Johannesburg Biennale
1998 - Houston Photo Festival
1998 - Dakar Biennale, Senegal
1998 - " La Maison Europeene da la Photo", Paris
1998 - "Africa, Africa", Tobu Museum, Japan
1998 - " Democracy's Images: photography and visual art after
apartheid", Bild Museet, Sweden
1999 - Project room, Marco Noire contemporary art, Arco, Madrid, Spain,
Germany, Chicago, USA
1999 - Museum of African Art, New York
And numerous other
international exhibitions
2000 - Dakar Biennale, Senegal
June 2000 - Jack Shainman Gallery,New York, solo exhibition
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Public Collections
South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Wooltru, Cape Town
Department of Education Trust
Durban Art Gallery
South African Breweries Collection
Old Mutual
Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, ( North Western University )
University of the Witwatersrand
SASOL Collection
Gencor SA. Ltd. Collection, Johannesburg
University of South Africa, Pretoria
South African Embassy, Washington D.C, USA
Transnet Ltd.
Pretoria Art Museum
Sanlam Art Collection
Johannesburg Art Museum
South African Reserve Bank, Pretoria
Rand Merchant Bank
Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C.
Arco Foundation
University of Pretoria
Most major public and corporate art collections in South Africa and abroad
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