Nabeeha Mohamed
Nabeeha Mohamed (b. 1988, Cape Town, South Africa) studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town and graduated, specialising in painting, in 2011. Mohamed’s very personal work grapples with the complexities and contradictions of identity and class privilege in post-Apartheid South Africa. Her identity as a woman of colour, hushed during her childhood years in an attempt to assimilate to the white society and culture she grew up in going to an all-girls private school, is now celebrated in her paintings where colour, boldness and strangeness take centre stage. Her paintings offer a tension when these celebrations of identity are intersected with a playful critique of the capitalist economy and class privilege from which she benefits.
Mohamed has participated in several group shows, including Map of the New Art (Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice), Outside the Lines: An Exploration of Abstract Materiality (WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town), HB (A Humble Little Show) and Fugly (Chandler House, Cape Town) and Close Encounters (SMITH Studio, Cape Town). In 2017 she completed a residency at Casa de Ilhabela (Ilhabela, Brazil). In February 2020 SMITH presented her first solo exhibition titled Sunshine on my skin is my favourite colour.
Solo exhibitions
2020 Sunshine on my skin is my favourite colour, SMITH, Cape Town
Group exhibitions
2020 Don’t Give A Damns, Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam
2019 Rendezvous II, SMITH, Cape Town
2019 Speculative Enquiry #1 On Abstraction, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town
2019 Bad Taste: Image in Crisis, SMITH Cape Town
2019 Outside, RK Contemporary, Cape Town
2019 Know this place?, KZNSA, Durban
2019 Rocks, gallery, gallery, Johannesburg
2018 Rendezvous, SMITH, Cape Town
2018 Close Encounters, SMITH, Cape Town
2017 Summertide, The Gallery, Riebeeck Kasteel
2016 HB (A Humble Little Show), Chandler House, Cape Town
2016 Fugly ,Chandler House, Cape Town
2015 Map of the New Art, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
2012 Outside the Lines: An Exploration of Abstract Materiality, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town
Art fairs
2020 154 New York, Nuweland
2020 Art Rotterdam, Nuweland
2020 Investec Cape Town Art Fair, SMITH
2019 FNB Art Joburg, SMITH
2019 Investec Cape Town Art Fair, SMITH
Residencies
2019 gallery gallery, Johannesburg
2017 Casa de Ilhabela, Ilhabela, Brazil
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