Zwelethu Mthethwa
Mthethwa was born in 1960 in Durban,Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. "His work is grounded in tradition, yet he imbues it with a riveting contemporary presence. He yanks the viewer through the looking-glass into his painterly planet. It is a world full of possible "windows", yet these openings are flat surfaces soaked in subtly modulated fictions. And his paintings serve as visual songs, their lyrics narrating a story of how painting refers to itself while being fed by experiential nutrients. They serve both as parentheses within the real world and as vividly evocative vignettes of moments, intensely lived."- Hazel Friedman
BIOGRAPHY:
- Research Associate at Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT, 2000
- Appointed Senior Lecturer, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT,1998
- Lecturer of Photography and Drawing at Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT 1994-98.
- Customer Projects Coordinator for Truworths, 1991-93.
- Master of Fine Arts in Imaging Art, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, 1989
- Assistant Coordinator Children´s Project for Community Arts Project, 1988-89
- Cultural Organizer for Department of Education and Training, 1986-87
- Advanced Diploma in Fine Arts, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT,1 985
- Diploma in Fine Arts, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT, 1984
