Pebofatso Mokoena
Biography
Born 1993, Ekurhuleni, South Africa. Lives and works, Johannesburg, South Africa
Mokoena holds a BA Honours in Fine Art (with distinction)from Wits University and is completing a Master of Arts in Fine Arts at Witwatersrand University. In 2014, He completed his N.Dip (Visual Art) at the University of Johannesburg and subsequently, apart from working towards his BTech qualification, Pebofatso taught drawing and presentation at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, at UJ. Emerging from early practice in printmaking, Mokoena’s painting practice is formally underscored by precise mark making and division of space, while exploring ideas around micro and macro scales of politics, architecture and the environment.
Pebofatso’s work has received early recognition and support, locally and internationally. Mokoena has held multiple solo exhibitions including; Neoclassical Taste Matrix and Space Dot Conundrums in Harare, Zimbabwe, The Pebofatso Experience at HZRD and Inside Jobs at the Bag Factory as well as curated exhibitions including Diptych; Disclosure at SMAC; Fresh Produce 2014, Inner Nature, Fortunes Remixed, and South African Voices: A New Generation of Printmakers in Washington DC and is in the Springs Art Library Collection, the South African Embassy Art Collection (in Washington, D.C.), and the JP Morgan Global Collection amongst other private collections.
Education
2024: MA in Fine Arts - Wits University
2020: BA Honours Fine Art (with distinction) – Wits University
2018: Lecturing assistant - Department of Architecture - University of Johannesburg
2017: Printing Internship - David Krut Workshop - Johannesburg
2015: Administration Assistant - ArtSource South Africa - Johannesburg
2014: National Diploma Visual Art - University of Johannesburg
2013: Curatorial team - University of Johannesburg
Exhibitions
2024: Artissima, First Floor Gallery Harare, Turin, Italy
2024: FNB Art Joburg, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2024: RMB Latitudes Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2024: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2023: Space Dot Conundrums, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2023: Messe Messe (Group Exhibition), First Floor Gallery Victoria Falls, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2023: RMB Latitudes Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2022: Negotiating Chaos: It’s the way it shatters that matters (Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude and Pebofatso Mokoena), Simone Subal Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
2021: I Draw Therefore I Think, South South online. First Floor Gallery Harare
2021: Neoclassical Taste Matrix, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2020 - Internal Probes - David Krut Projects, Johannesburg
2020: ARCOLisboa Online, First Floor Gallery Harare, artsy.net
2019: Latitudes Art Fair - Johannesburg, South Africa
2019: EPI-2019, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2019: Songs of Sankofa, First Floor Gallery Harare - Harare, Zimbabwe
2018: Inside Jobs, Bag Factory - Johannesburg, Zimbabwe
2018: Open Studio, Nazdik Precinct - Tehran, Iran
2018: ArtNext Art Fair - Hong Kong, China
2017: The Pebofatso Experience, solo exhibition, Hazard Gallery - Johannesburg, South Africa
2017: Disclosure, SMAC gallery - Johannesburg, South Africa
2017: Atomic Peace, Bag Factory - Johannesburg, South Africa
2016: POST-ITS, Constitutional Hill - Johannesburg, South Africa
2016: Between South Africa and Iran, NoMans Gallery - Tehran, Iran
2016: Beasts of No Nation, Hazard Gallery - Johannesburg, South Africa
2015: 30|30, Springs Art Gallery - Johannesburg, South Africa
2015: Defining The Narrative, Gallery MOMO - Cape Town, South Africa
2014: South African Voices: A New Generation of Printmakers - Washington DC, USA
2014: Shared Inheritance, The Cosmopolitan - Johannesburg, South Africa
2013: Diptych: presented by Assemblage - Johannesburg, South Africa
2013 - 2014 Fortunes Remixed, Port Elizabeth - Johannesburg, Cape Town (South Africa)
Residencies
2019: First Solo residency, First Floor Gallery Harare – Harare, Zimbabwe
2018: artist-in-residence, Bag Factory - Johannesburg, South Africa
2018: Artist-in-Residence, KOOSHK - Tehran, Iran
2017: Artist-in-Residence, Nirox Foundation - Krugersdorp, South Africa
2017: Artist-in-Residence, The Cosmopolitan - Johannesburg, South Africa
Awards
2020: Wits Young Artist Award Merit Winner
2019: Emerging Painters Invitational top 17 Finalist
2019: JP Morgan/Arts and Culture Trust Abadali Artists’ co-creation programme
2015: Assemblage/African Arts Trust Studio Bursary
Born 1993, Ekurhuleni, South Africa. Lives and works, Johannesburg, South Africa
Mokoena holds a BA Honours in Fine Art (with distinction)from Wits University and is completing a Master of Arts in Fine Arts at Witwatersrand University. In 2014, He completed his N.Dip (Visual Art) at the University of Johannesburg and subsequently, apart from working towards his BTech qualification, Pebofatso taught drawing and presentation at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, at UJ. Emerging from early practice in printmaking, Mokoena’s painting practice is formally underscored by precise mark making and division of space, while exploring ideas around micro and macro scales of politics, architecture and the environment.
Pebofatso’s work has received early recognition and support, locally and internationally. Mokoena has held multiple solo exhibitions including; Neoclassical Taste Matrix and Space Dot Conundrums in Harare, Zimbabwe, The Pebofatso Experience at HZRD and Inside Jobs at the Bag Factory as well as curated exhibitions including Diptych; Disclosure at SMAC; Fresh Produce 2014, Inner Nature, Fortunes Remixed, and South African Voices: A New Generation of Printmakers in Washington DC and is in the Springs Art Library Collection, the South African Embassy Art Collection (in Washington, D.C.), and the JP Morgan Global Collection amongst other private collections.
Education
2024: MA in Fine Arts - Wits University
2020: BA Honours Fine Art (with distinction) – Wits University
2018: Lecturing assistant - Department of Architecture - University of Johannesburg
2017: Printing Internship - David Krut Workshop - Johannesburg
2015: Administration Assistant - ArtSource South Africa - Johannesburg
2014: National Diploma Visual Art - University of Johannesburg
2013: Curatorial team - University of Johannesburg
Exhibitions
2024: Artissima, First Floor Gallery Harare, Turin, Italy
2024: FNB Art Joburg, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2024: RMB Latitudes Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2024: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2023: Space Dot Conundrums, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2023: Messe Messe (Group Exhibition), First Floor Gallery Victoria Falls, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2023: RMB Latitudes Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2022: Negotiating Chaos: It’s the way it shatters that matters (Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude and Pebofatso Mokoena), Simone Subal Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
2021: I Draw Therefore I Think, South South online. First Floor Gallery Harare
2021: Neoclassical Taste Matrix, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2020 - Internal Probes - David Krut Projects, Johannesburg
2020: ARCOLisboa Online, First Floor Gallery Harare, artsy.net
2019: Latitudes Art Fair - Johannesburg, South Africa
2019: EPI-2019, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2019: Songs of Sankofa, First Floor Gallery Harare - Harare, Zimbabwe
2018: Inside Jobs, Bag Factory - Johannesburg, Zimbabwe
2018: Open Studio, Nazdik Precinct - Tehran, Iran
2018: ArtNext Art Fair - Hong Kong, China
2017: The Pebofatso Experience, solo exhibition, Hazard Gallery - Johannesburg, South Africa
2017: Disclosure, SMAC gallery - Johannesburg, South Africa
2017: Atomic Peace, Bag Factory - Johannesburg, South Africa
2016: POST-ITS, Constitutional Hill - Johannesburg, South Africa
2016: Between South Africa and Iran, NoMans Gallery - Tehran, Iran
2016: Beasts of No Nation, Hazard Gallery - Johannesburg, South Africa
2015: 30|30, Springs Art Gallery - Johannesburg, South Africa
2015: Defining The Narrative, Gallery MOMO - Cape Town, South Africa
2014: South African Voices: A New Generation of Printmakers - Washington DC, USA
2014: Shared Inheritance, The Cosmopolitan - Johannesburg, South Africa
2013: Diptych: presented by Assemblage - Johannesburg, South Africa
2013 - 2014 Fortunes Remixed, Port Elizabeth - Johannesburg, Cape Town (South Africa)
Residencies
2019: First Solo residency, First Floor Gallery Harare – Harare, Zimbabwe
2018: artist-in-residence, Bag Factory - Johannesburg, South Africa
2018: Artist-in-Residence, KOOSHK - Tehran, Iran
2017: Artist-in-Residence, Nirox Foundation - Krugersdorp, South Africa
2017: Artist-in-Residence, The Cosmopolitan - Johannesburg, South Africa
Awards
2020: Wits Young Artist Award Merit Winner
2019: Emerging Painters Invitational top 17 Finalist
2019: JP Morgan/Arts and Culture Trust Abadali Artists’ co-creation programme
2015: Assemblage/African Arts Trust Studio Bursary