Nicholas Hlobo

Nicholas Hlobo is a South African artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was born in 1975 in Cape Town. He earned a Bachelor of Technology from Technikon Witwatersrand in 2002. He creates large sculptural works that are expansive masses which at once feel oozey, voluptuous and highly structured. The contrast of femininity and masculinity is created by his use of dissimilar materials such as rubber inner tubes, ribbon, organza, lace and found objects.

Awards

Hlobo is the winner of the 2006 Tollman Award for Visual Art, the 2009 Standard Bank Young Artist Award,^[1] Future Generation Art Prize 2010^[2] and is the 2010-2011 Rolex Visual Arts Protégé.

Exhibitions

Hlobo's work has been exhibited in the Tate Modern in London,^[3] the South African National Gallery, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, among several other venues. His work has also been included in the Havana Biennial of 2009 and the Guangzhou Triennial of 2008. Hlobo was the first black festival artist of the Aardklop arts festival in Potchefstroom in 2008. A major survey exhibition of Hlobo’s work was on at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway, from 4 March to 29 May 2011. Hlobo and David Goldblatt were the only two South African artists invited by curator Bice Curiger to exhibit work on the international pavilion IllUMinations of the 2011 Venice Biennale^[4].^[5]

References

1. ^ Meet Nicholas Hlobo, Standard Bank Young Artist Award
2. ^ http://www.futuregenerationartprize.org/
3. ^ Uhambo, Tate Modern
4. ^ "Artists Venice Biennale Announced". Biannial Foundation. http://www.biennialfoundation.org/2011/03/artists-venice-biennale-announced/. Retrieved 11 September 2011. 
5. ^ "SOUTH AFRICA’S ON THE 54TH VENICE BIENNALE 2011". Panga Management. http://pangamanagement.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/south-africa%E2%80%99s-on-the-54th-venice-biennale-2011/. Retrieved 11 September 2011. 

External links

• The Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative
• Nicholas Hlobo, Michael Stevenson Gallery
• Meet Nicholas Hlobo, Standard Bank Young Artist Award
• The Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative
• Nicholas Hlobo, South Africa Info
• Uhambo, Tate Modern
• Articles about Nicholas Hlobo, Mail & Guardian
• Nicholas Hlobo by Sue Williamson , Artthrob

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Name	Hlobo, Nicholas
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Short description	South African artist
Date of birth	1975
Place of birth	Cape Town
Date of death
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