THOKOZANI MTHIYANE

ARTWORK

THOKOZANI MTHIYANE BIOGRAPHY

Thokozani Mthiyane is a Johannesburg based artist and cofounder of The Enso Circle. After

finishing school, Mthiyane spent his free time in the studios of painters Sfiso KaMkame and

Thami Jali in Cleremont Township, close to Durban, where he grew up. His time spent

learning from artists Sfiso KaMkame and Thami Jali has greatly inspired him.

With the Madcap's Educational Theatre Company, Mthiyane gained experience in children's

theater. He then held his first solo exhibition at the Flat Gallery in Durban. Mthiyane is a

multidisciplinary artist who talks as confidently about his work as an expressionist painter as

he does about his time as a trilingual poet in France and as a musician as he does about his

work as an expressionist painter and as a dancer touring Holland with the Inzalo dance

company.

He has exhibited at the Centre for humanities research, and has exhibited at African noise

foundation. He developed his signature act of performing French poetry translated into Zulu

in Cave Poésie in Toulouse, Southern France. He returned to France in 2001 and again in

2004 to perform the poems of Jacques Prévert in the small town of Heroville near

Normandy

ARTIST RESUME

Solo Exhibitions

• 2023 The interpretation of poetry, Turbine Art Faitr, Johannesburg Blaque Inq

Contemporary

• 2017 Soul Songs: The shape of my head, Art Eye Gallery, Johannesburg

• 2015 Whetin dey happen Lagos/ Jozi, Msanzi Gallery, Johannesburg

Group Exhibitions

• 2023 Group Show, Arte Povera and South African Art: In Conversation Curated by

Thembinkosi Goniwe and Ilaria Bernardi

• 2023 Group Show, Latitudes Art Fair

• 2023 The impertinent views of abstraction, Curated by Ricardo at Parktown

Johannesburg

• 2023 Footnotes, Curated by Musa Nxumalo at Studio Nxumalo

• 2022 Colour Splash, Curated Katlego Lekwakwa, O Contemporary gallery

• 2021 LIMINAL SPACE, Annual Winter Show, Berman Contemporary, Johannesburg

• 2021 Turbine Art Fair 2021 Group show with Candice Berman

• 2019 Wearable Art, Julian Art Fashion Collection, Johannesburg

• 2018 Autumn Group Show, Worldart Gallery, Cape Town

• 2017 Magiciens d’Afrique, ODA Gallery, Franschhoek

• 2016 People You May Know, collaborative performance and exhibition, featuring

Dathini Mzayiya, Brydon, Bolton, Reza Khota, Thokozani Mthiyane, and Daniel

Grey, the Factory of the Arts,

Publications

• 2020 An encounter with Thokozani Mthiyane, artist of the month, Bontle, Tau, Saffca

newsletter

• 2020 Joburg based multi-disciplinary visual artist Thokozani Mthiyane is a gifted

story teller, Edward Tsumele, City Life/Arts

• 2018 Thokozani Mthiyane: Patching up the male psyche, Kwanele Sosibo, Mail &

Guardian

• 2015 WRAPTURE: the story of cloth, Q and A with Thokozani Mthiyane by Peju

Alatise, Nigeria

Collections

• 2022 Art Bank Collection

• 2021 Riboville Collection

Video / Interview

• 2023 Morning show interview with ETV

• 2019 Short documentary of Thokozani Mthiyane, by Ellis & King

www.ellisandkingdirectors.com

• 2017 Thokozani Mthiyane Soul Songs...the shape of my Head, You Tube

Performance

• 2023 How we pray featuring fellow artists, at Arts on Main, Johannesburg, sponsored

by Relay Jeans

• 2022 The poet who won’t speak, at Bamboo Gallery in Melville with Carol Brown

• 2021 How we pray featuring fellow artists, at Arts on Main, Johannesburg