Natalie Paneng
Natalie Paneng (b.1996) is a Johannesburg based multidisciplinary artist.
Paneng received her BA in Dramatic Arts from the University of Witwatersrand in 2018 and was awarded the Leon Gluckman Prize for the best piece of creative work. Paneng draws on her theatre background and self taught digital skills to create multidisciplinary digital art/new media. Paneng describes herself as a world-builder and sees her growing practice as a way to navigate, share and archive imagined and alternative realities brought to life through digital artistic process.
Paneng has exhibited with TMRW Gallery, The National Arts Festival , Blank Projects Michaelis School of Fine Art, BKHz, Javett UP and Galerie Eigen Art Leipzig and Mutek. Along with this, she has participated in local artist residencies such as Bubblegum Future 76 Residency (2018), Floating Reverie (2019) and Fak’ugesi Digital Innovation Artist Residency (2019) and The Centre of A Less Good Idea’s So Academy’s ‘Thinking in Cardboard’ scenographers mentorship (2021). She has also published creative research through Ellipses Journal and Artist Research Africa as well as being a 202 Fellow with the Institute of Creative Arts and UCT. Her first solo exhibition ‘Maze’ was presented internationally in Leipzig, Germany, at Galerie EIGEN + ART.
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