The Mixed Media Artist Mthabisi Phili

Mthabisi Phili (1986) -- Mixed Media

Artist Profile

Mthabisi Phili-Self Portrait

Visual Artist (mixed-media,installations), Independent Curator and Writer

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2010: Blue-pencil, National Gallery in Bulawayo

2009: Voices in Colour National Gallery in Bulawayo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011: Perception360 NGB

2011: Freedom to Create, Ana Tzarev Gallery, New-York, U.S.A

2011: Hope and Despair National Gallery of Zimbabwe

2010: Freedom to Create CAIRO, EGYPT

2010: CCA, Lagos, Stone House, Alakuko, NIGERIA

2010: Telling the Truth (Radio Dialogue)

2010: Poetic Brush

2010: Ndebele Proverbs

2009: Voices in Colour

2002-2011: VAAB Annual Exhibitions since 2002

Workshops

2011: Co-facilitated Bulawayo Conversations with Christine Eyene

2010: CCA Lagos/ Triangle Artist Residency/Workshop Nigeria

2010: Gwanza Photographic Workshop in Bulawayo

2009: Sustainable Art Matopo, National Gallery in Bulawayo

2009: Creative industries workshop (British Council)

2008: Gwanza Photographic Workshop in Bulawayo

Projects

Curatorship

2011: Curated Perception360

2010: Co-curated Blue-pencil with Voti Thebe, Allan Sibanda

2009: Curated Christian Arts Festival Visual Arts Exhibition

2008: Co-curated Discovering Our Identity: Intwasa Arts Festival with Voti Thebe

Artistic Service and Exposure

2010: Founder of Voices in Colour International Visual Art Exhibition

2009: Online publishing: Poets from Bulawayo

2008, 2009, 2010: Visual Arts Consultant for Intwasa Arts Festival

2007-2009: Exhibitions Officer for VAAB

2008: Published writer with Amabooks

2003: Member of the now dissolved Bulawayo Poetry Circle

2002: Participated in VAAB visual art exhibitions from 2002

2002: Friends of the National Gallery in Bulawayo

Talks

2010: Lagos Metaphors: National Gallery in Bulawayo

Education

2007: National Gallery in Bulawayo Outreach Program

2006: 2007 National University of Science and Technology [NUST]

2004: Mzilikazi Art and Craft Centre

What am up to now

Currently working on Perception360 International Annual Visual Art Exhibition at The National Gallery in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

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Kaafiri Kariuki at the Creativity Gallery

Shades of Time: An exhibition by Kaafiri Kariuki at the Creativity Gallery National Museum of Kenya

Mixed Media By Regions

Exhibitions

Conrad Botes at the KZNSA Gallery

Featured Artist Portfolio

Title: Making Ways
Name: Tabitha Wa Thuku
Country: Kenya
Medium: Mixed media on heavy canvas
Size: 149 X 140 cms
Click here to view

News

Jacob Zuma Penis Painting defaced

Goodman Gallery Response to Threat of Censorship from the ANC

Samuel Githui's 'Zebra Crossing' @ The One Off Gallery

Nomthunzi Mashalaba Presents 'Mamiya'

Portraits for Self Determining Haiti

Features

Common Misconceptions Artists Have About Galleries

In Conversation with James Barnor, in Comparison with Malick Sidibé

Gor Soudan & Paul Onditi's 'Another World is Possible'

The Politics of Exclusion: The Undue Fixation of Western-Based African Curators on Contemporary Africa Diaspora Artists-A Critique

An Arts Renaissance in Johannesburg

Editorials

How African Sculpture Influences Modern Art

Interrogating Western Paradigms: Rethinking Authencity in African Art

Should Artists Accept “Dirty Money”?

Art as an Expression: Are artists part of “the problem”?

Development as a Destroyer of Culture: Demolition of Uganda National Museum

News From External Sources

Davidkrut.book.co.za: Special Collection: TAXI Art Book Series

Herald.co.zw: Publishers Challenged to Produce African Art Books

Herald.co.zw: Transforming Colonial Legacy Through Art

Culturemap.com: Faces of Kings

Culture24.org.uk: Brighton Photo Biennial 2010

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