Sphatho Mzantsi
Sphatho Mzantsi is an Eastern Cape born Xhosa South African artist, born in 1995 and raised in Mthathae. He completed his BA in Fine Arts Degree at the University of the Free State and has thus far been included in a number of group exhibitions since 2017 to 2019 at the Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, UFS, and since joining the Free State Art Collective (FAC) has been included in in two other group exhibitions at the 2019 Vryfees Festival and at Gallery 2 in Johannesburg. In 2020 was part of Turbine Art Fair the following year, 2021 was part of another group exhibition at Gallery 2 and was part of the Sasol New Signatures catalogue and exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum. In 2022 was part of the SA Art bank collection. After having trained in all traditional mediums (printmaking, drawing, sculpture and painting); Mzantsi’s preferred mediums include pit, charcoal, ballpoint pen, video, photography and painting. And right now, is building on the body of work started in 2019 Sphatho Mzantsi’s artistic interests included looking at the idea of the modern individual who is across of multiple cultures that stems from post-colonial globalisation. Mzantsi an artist born in post-apartheid South Africa explores the idea of the individual who lives between two or more cultures because of cultural interactions and systematic running of the country.'indawo elalini ne engekhoyoe Dolophini (Rural Place and City Displacement)' that discusses the displacement of African/indigenous people in western culture in the time we live in. Mzantsi’s body of work is still growing and getting longer 2024.
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