ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

 

2020    Masters in Art History (MA), Rhodes University, 

2015    Honours in Curating, Michaelis School of Art (UCT),

2012    Project Management, University of South Africa

2010    BA Fine and Applied Arts, Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) 

2008    Diploma Fine and Applied Arts, Tshwane University of Technology (TUT)

2005    Senior Certificate, Holy Cross High School, Mthatha

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

Teaching 

 

July 2024/2025 – August 2024/2025, University of Pretoria, Guest Lecturer 2nd & 3rd Year

Feb 2022 – Dec 2022 Assistant lecturer, Tshwane University of Technology, Advanced Diploma in Fine Arts

Feb 2019 - Dec 2019 Assistant lecturer, Tshwane University of Technology, Art Theory III and IV

2011 Feb-Nov 2011 Assistant lecturer, Tshwane University of Technology, 2nd & 3rd yr. Painting

 

CURATING

 

2022    You can make yourself at home, online 

2017    Nirox Sculpture Park, Winter Sculpture Exhibition, Johannesburg

2015    Moses Tladi retrospective, IZIKO South African National Gallery, co-curating 

2013    Who I am is connected to where I live, Pretoria Art Museum 

2012    Tshwane North Artist, Pretoria

 

WRITTEN WORK

 

Essays in books

• “A Perspective of Historical Mechanisms and the Perceptions of Alienation”, short essay in There are Mechanisms in Place – a creative publication in response to the exhibition by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, curated by Nkule Mabaso and Nomusa Makhubu, Pulp Paperwork: 2019 Best Visual Art Collection Award 2021 humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).

 

Creative Practice writing 

• “Navigating memory in my family photo album”, 2021. Creative Knowledge Resources, online essay available here: https://www.creativeknow.org/bopawritersforum

 

• “The Love of Writing, or Writing as Love/r: Collabortive Writing as Shared Visual Art Studio Practice”, 2022. Creative Knowledge Resources, written by Fouad Asfour, Londiwe Mtshali, Mujahid Safodien, Pebofatso Mokoena, Philiswa Lila, Saajidah, Vidya Chagan, online essay available here: https://www.creativeknow.org/bopawritersforum

 

CONFERENCES, TALKS AND  KEY NOTE

 

Keynote Address 

·       “Kukwam Apha! Exploring retrospective experiences through traces of home”, African Feminisms (Afems), Rhodes University, South Africa (6-8 July 2023)

 

·       “Dear Nogolide – A letter ” Wits School of Arts Postgraduate Conference, Wits University, South Africa (29-30 June 2023)

 

Conference Papers 

• “The First Album: A visual analysis of object, residue and performativity”, 14th National Conference of the South African Journal of Arts History (SAJAH), Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, (25-27 September 2020)

 

• “Skin, Bone, Fire: My First Album”, 34th Annual South Africa Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH), South Africa (11-13 September 2019)

• “Skin, Bone, Fire: My First Album”, African Feminisms Conference (Afems), Wits University, South Africa (6-8 September 2019)

 

• “The use of ritual as a physical and spiritual medium in Buhlebezwe Siwani’s visual art performance and its documentation”, African Feminisms (Afems), Rhodes University, South Africa (27-29 September 2018)

• “If performance is a mode of narration, what does the narration tell us about eye/I”, Narrative Enquiry For Social Transformation (NEST) Colloquium & Summer School, University Of Cape Town, South Africa (March 2017)

 

• “Text which performs”, Exploring African continent through the arts, University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa (September 2016)

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Public Talks and Panels

·      Art Matters: Postgraduate Student-Led conferenced as creative research practice, Panel discussion, Scholarship of Teaching in South Africa conference, university of Free State (21- 23 November 2023)

• Women's work as artistic practice, Creative Laboratory//Gatherings, Origins Centre, Curated by Bev Butkow, Wits University, Johannesburg (20 August - 30 September 2023)

• Lucid Lunchbox, in conversation with Andrew Tshabangu and Thembinkosi Goniwe Footprints exhibition, Rhodes University (05 July 2017)

• Guest artists Presentation, Tshwane University of Technology, (September 2016)

• Visual artist on writing: Panel discussion, Wits writing festival, 29 –30 June 2023

 

FACILITATED WORKSHOPS

 

Writing as artist studio practice workshops

 

• Writing Free Form Shapes writing workshop, by Philiswa Lila, Fouad Asfour, Pebofatso Mokoena and Londiwe Mtshali, Time of the writer,  13 March 2025 [online]

 

• Care Instruction Pieces writing workshop, by Philiswa Lila, Fouad Asfour, Pebofatso Mokoena and Londiwe Mtshali, KLA Art Festival Kampala, 17 June 2024 [online]

 

• Tracing memory writing workshop, by Fouad Asfour and Philiswa Lila, Time of the Writer Festival UKZN, 18 March 2024 [online]

 

• Tracing memory writing, by Fouad Asfour and Philiswa Lila, Writing festival at Wits writing centre, 30 June 2023 [online]

 

• Tracing memory writing workshop, by Fouad Asfour and Philiswa Lila, Time of the Writer Festival UKZN, 20 March 2023 [online]

 

• You can make yourself at home, online

 

SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, PRIZES

 

Fellowship

• Institute for Creative Art Online Fellowship, University of Cape Town, 2020. 

• GendV Projects, a collaboration between University of Johannesburg and Cambridge University, 2021-2023

 

Scholarships

• Masters Scholarship, NRF, Rhodes University, 2017

• Masters Scholarship, Melon Foundation, Rhodes University, 2016

• Masters Scholarship, Raymond Pullen, Rhodes University, 2016

• Honours Scholarship, Melon foundation, University of Cape Town, 2015

 

Research Grant

• Rhodes University research grants, 2017

• Centre for Curated Archive grant, UCT, 2015

 

 

Awards

2022    200 Young Mail & Guardian South Africans 

2018    Gerard Sekoto Award - ABSA L’Atelier competition

2009    Merit Award - ABSA L’Atelier 

 

ART EXHIBITIONS

 

Solo exhibitions

2024    Nogolide: Have I taken this name for myself?, Pretoria Art Museum 

2023    Keep out of reach of children, Gallery Brulhart, Geneve, Switzerland 

2022    Nogolide – Sentimental Value, Investec Cape Town Art Fair with The Melrose Gallery

2021    Pain is Love, GendV Project, University of Johannesburg

2021    Willing to Share, GendV Project, University of Johannesburg

2020 – 2021    Skin, Bone, Fire: The First Album, travelling exhibition: Absa Gallery, North West University Gallery, and Bird Street Gallery at Nelson Mandela University 

 

Performances 

2024    Nogolide: Have I taken this name for myself?, the performance, Pretoria Art Museum

2022    HambhaMfazi! Investec Cape Town Art Fair (Cape Town)

2018    Ntombikayise Afems (Rhodes University)

2017    TikTok (talk) ICA Infecting the City (Cape Town)

2016    TikTok (talk) Reason and it’s disconnect (Grahamstown)

2014    HambhaMfazi! Young 14 (Bag Factory Artist Studios) 

 

 

RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS

 

Residencies 

 

2025    Tankwa Art Scape, Tankwa in the Northern Cape

2021 –2024 GendV Project: Urban Transformation and Gendered Violence in India and South Africa hosted by the University of Johannesburg and the University of Cambridge

2019    Cite Internationale Des Arte (Paris)

2014    Greatmore Studios (Cape Town) 

2013    Bag Factory Artist Studios (Johannesburg) 

 

 

COLLECTIONS

 

University collection

• University of South Africa Art Gallery

• University of Cape Town Collection 

• University of Pretoria

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Corporate 

• Absa Gallery

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Museums, Foundations/Trust

• Spier Arts Trust

• William Humphrey Museum