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Meleko Mokgosi is an artist and assistant professor based in Los Angeles. He is best known for his large-scale, multi-panel narrative paintings that explore the complexities of post-colonial African history and identity. He has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, including solo exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Mokgosi was born in 1981 in Francistown, Botswana. He received his BFA from the University of Botswana in 2004 and his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. Mokgosi's work has been featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Artforum, and Art in America. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, and the Creative Capital Award. As of 2021, Meleko Mokgosi's net worth is estimated to be approximately $1 million.

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Occupation Artist • assistant professor
Age 42 years old
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Birthplace Francistown, Botswana
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2014

In 2014, Mokgosi began the project Democratic Intuition, which he described as being about "how do normal people understand, reciprocate, have access to, and not have access to the ideas of democracy and the democratic". He presented the first two chapters of this work at his first solo New York exhibition in 2016.

2012

In 2012, Mokgosi was an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. There he worked on completing his Pax Kaffraria painting series, which he explained was "to explore how people in southern Africa think about nationhood." Mokgosi made a series of more than 50 paintings on the subject of colonialism in Africa. A book on the Pax Kaffraria project was published by the Hammer Museum in 2014.

2008

From 2008–2011 Mokgosi created his first series of paintings, Pax Afrikaner, which explored xenophobia and national identity in southern Africa.

1981

Meleko Mokgosi (born 1981) is an artist and assistant professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. His work includes large-scale paintings that explore themes of colonialism, democracy, nationalism, and life in Southern Africa.

Mokgosi was born in 1981 in Francistown, Botswana, and raised in the city of Maun. He began drawing in primary school. While in high school, he became interested in the potential of making political commentary with art. In 2003, he moved to the United States, participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program, and studied art at Williams College and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), earning B.A. and Master of Fine Arts degrees. Mokgosi studied for four years with American conceptual artist Mary Kelly, who guided him in developing a project-based practice, which he described as "focused not on producing objects but articulating a set of questions".

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