Nicholas Hlobo is a South African artist based in

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. He was born in 1975 in

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. He earned a Bachelor of Technology from

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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, he was a finalist for the Future Generation Art Prize 2010. In 2010, Hlobo was selected as a protégé by mentor Sir Anish Kapoor as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, an international philanthropic programme that pairs masters in their disciplines with emerging talents for a year of one-to-one creative exchange.

Exhibitions

Hlobo's work has been exhibited in the

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in London, the

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, and the

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, among several other venues. His work has also been included in the

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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

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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. He is included on La Triennale 2012 in Paris and on The Rainbow Nation, an exhibition of three generations of sculpture from South Africa, at The Hague. He has also been selected for the 18th Biennale of Sydney. In 2013 and 2014 his work will feature in exhibitions in Miami (Intethe), Aalborg (Out of Fashion : Textiles in International Contemporary Art), San Francisco (Public Intimacy : Art and other extraordinary Acts in South Africa) and The Divine Comedy. Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists -Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main

References

External links

The Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative

Meet Nicholas Hlobo, Standard Bank Young Artist Award

Uhambo, Tate Modern

Articles about Nicholas Hlobo

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Nicholas Hlobo by Sue Williamson , Artthrob
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