NEWS
Meleko Mokgosi
Meleko Mokgosi
Visual Art Source
By Jody Zellen
December 2018
Meleko Mokgosi
Review: Exhibitions by Kwame Brathwaite, Deana Lawson and Meleko Mokgosi challenge how blackness is represented
Los Angeles Times
By Sharon Mizota
November 14, 2018
Meleko Mokgosi
Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Fall Distinguished Faculty Lecture: October 26, 2018
New York, NY
Meleko Mokgosi
The art of daily existence: Meleko Mokgosi's provocative show at the UCLA Fowler Museum
Los Angeles Times
By Christopher Knight
May 7, 2018
Meleko Mokgosi
Meleko Mokgosi
Art in America
By Jennifer S. Li
May 1, 2018
Meleko Mokgosi
Paintings that Question the Promises of Postcolonial Democracy
Hyperallergic
By Abe Ahn
April 12, 2018
Meleko Mokgosi
Culture Fix: Erica P. Jones on Meleko Mokgosi
12–1pm, April 5, 2018
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Meleko Mokgosi
Meleko Mokgosi at the Fowler Museum
KCRW
By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
April 5, 2018
Meleko Mokgosi
Bread, Butter, and Power
Exhibition: On view February 11–July 1, 2018
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Meleko Mokgosi
Conversations: Selections From the Permanent Collection
Exhibition: May 25–September 10, 2017
Cornell Fine Arts Museum
Meleko Mokgosi
The Ease of Fiction
Exhibition: April 26–August 27, 2017
Museum of the African Diaspora
Meleko Mokgosi
Lex and Love: Meleko Mokgosi
Exhibition: March 17–September 17, 2017
Williams College Museum of Art
Meleko Mokgosi
Meleko Mokgosi: Pax Kaffraria
Exhibition: February 19–May 7;
February 3–March 19, 2017
Memorial Art Gallery and Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Meleko Mokgosi
Meleko Mokgosi Awarded
2017 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Fine Arts
Meleko Mokgosi
Artforum
Critics' Picks: The Ease of Fiction
By Andrea Gyorody
December 2016
Sarah Cain, Meleko Mokgosi
Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting
Phaidon Editors
Meleko Mokgosi
The Ease of Fiction
Exhibition: October 19, 2016–February 19, 2017
California African American Museum
Meleko Mokgosi
Interview
Artists at Work: Meleko Mokgosi
By Matt Mullen
August 11, 2016
Meleko Mokgosi
Benefit Art Auction 2016
Headlands Center for the Arts
Wednesday, June 1, 6:30pm
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Meleko Mokgosi
The Ease of Fiction
Exhibition: March 3 – June 19, 2016
Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh
Meleko Mokgosi
A story within a story...
Göteborg International Biennial For Contemporary Art 2015
Exhibition: September 12-November 22, 2015
Göteborgs Konsthall
Meleko Mokgosi
Talk with curator Dexter Wimberly and
artists Meleko Mokgosi and Lavar Munroe
Friday, May 15, 2015, 5:45-6:45pm
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Meleko Mokgosi
Meleko Mokgosi: Democratic Intuition
Exhibition: April 21-August 9, 2015
The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Art basel miami beach
The Art Newspaper
Seek and ye shall find
By Charlotte Burns and Anny Shaw
December 6, 2014
Art basel miami beach
Blouin Artinfo
The Definitive Top 11 Booths at Art Basel Miami Beach
By Scott Indrisek
December 3, 2014
Meleko Mokgosi
Mail & Guardian
An Interrogation of Post-colonial History
By Medein Tribinevicius
June 27, 2014
Meleko Mokgosi: Pax Kaffraria is Artforum Critics' Pick
Meleko Mokgosi in the Los Angeles Times
Benefit & Launch Party for The Mistake Room
Meleko Mokgosi in 12th Biennale de Lyon
Meleko Mokgosi's Pax Kaffraria: The Ruse of Disavowal is in the 12th Biennale de Lyon.
Meleko Mokgosi at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Migrating Identities
June 28, 2013 – September 29, 2013
In this exhibition, eight artists—Ala Ebtekar, Michelle Dizon, Naeem Mohaiemen, Meleko Mokgosi, Wangechi Mutu, Yamini Nayar, Ishmael Randall Weeks, and Saya Woolfalk—actively negotiate their relationships with two or more different cultures and the influence on their individual lives.
The work of these artists, all of whom are in their 30s and early 40s, forms a sampling of a generation's response to the role of cultural diversity in the U.S. Guided by their ability to move fluidly between cultures, and drawing from the uniqueness of their individual journeys, these artists reveal the ways in which their identities have been transformed by the confluence of mobility, cultural retention, and personal history.
Meleko Mokgosi in Art Practical
Painting Expanded
By Leigh Markopoulos
April 15, 2013
Bookending the morning presentations with a return to a more analytical approach, the New York–based Meleko Mokgosi situated his most recent body of work—Pax Kaffraria: Sikhuselo Sembumbulu, a series of large-scale paintings meditating on a nineteenth-century gesture of resistance in his native Botswana—somewhere between Western postcolonial discourse and what he described as a more popular version of narrativity, or the conditions of presenting narrative peculiar to his native country.
Meleko Mokgosi in artspace 9 highlights from the armory show
Close Look: 9 Highlights from the Armory Show
by Andrew M. Goldstein
The most electrifying piece at the Armory Show may be this one, a ten-panel work by the 31-year-old Botswana-born artist Meleko Mokgosi, who is currently teaching at New York University.
February 15, 2013
Meleko Mokgosi receives Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
The Joan Mitchell Foundation announce Meleko Mokgosi to be one of twenty-five recipients of the 2012 Painters & Sculptors Grant Program.
The Painters & Sculptors Grant Program was established in 1993 to assist individual artists. The grants are given to acknowledge painters and sculptors creating work of exceptional quality
Meleko Mokgosi in Complex: Art + Design
The 50 Most Iconic Artworks of the Past Five Years
41. Pax Kaffraria: Sikhuselo Sembumbulu by Meleko Mokgosi, 2012
For an article in Art in America magazine, Meleko Mokgosi spoke to writer Brian Boucher on the origins of this work's title: "Pax Kaffraria is a term I made up...'Khaffraria' comes from a settlement established by the British in the early 19th century for mostly Xhosa people," he explains. "'Kaffrar' is the equivalent of 'n***er' in Afrikaans. So the project deals with issues of nationalism, anticolonial sentiment, and resistance, not only to the physical violence but the financialization of global capital." The work has become a milestone piece in studies of African politics and globalization, and Mokgosi explains it best.
January 8, 2013
Meleko Mokgosi in Modern Painters
24 Artists to Watch: Meleko Mokgosi
December 2012
Mokgosi's large-scale, project-based installations, such as Pax Afrikaner, 2008-11, and Pax Kaffraria, 2010-12, take the form of history paintings on panel. They serve, in the artist's words, as "a conceptual, theoretical, and personal working-through of a particular dilemna: the physical and epistemological violence toward black foreigners in southern Africa."
Congratulations to Meleko Mokgosi, 2012 Mohn Award recipient