Lebogang Mogul Mabusela

Portrait of Lebogang Mogul Mabusela, courtesy of artist

Lebogang Mogul Mabusela (born in Mabopane) is a self-proclaimed Zinequeen and Monotypebabe currently practising in Pretoria. In 2019 she graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the Wits School of Arts, where she was awarded the Standard Bank Fine Arts Prize. Mabusela has participated in a number of group exhibitions in South Africa, including Cape Town Art Fair, The Latitudes Art Fair and David Krut Projects. Internationally, she has shown in Lagos, Nigeria, at Frieze London and in Paris, at Gallery Esperance.

In 2019, Mabusela was a Top 50 Design Indaba Emerging Creative. Her first solo exhibition in 2022, titled Ukwatile? presented a body of work about language, catcalling and voyeurism at Stevenson Gallery, in Johannesburg, as part of their STAGE program for unrepresented artists. Currently she runs a printmaking program called The Monotypebabe Curatorial. Mabusela’s residency participations include The Young Womxn Studio Bursary at Bag Factory, the Blvck Block Online Residency and the Salzburger-Kunstverein in Austria. In 2024 she was shortlisted for the Norval Sovereign African Art Prize and showed work at the Norval Foundation in Cape Town. In 2024, iVumVum, her second solo exhibition, took place in Johannesburg at the Bag Factory Artists’ Studios.

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