(b. 1987, Pretoria, South Africa)

A sense of social conscience compels Setlamorago Mashilo. He employs the use of ‘dika le diema’ (Sepedi proverbs and idioms) into his multidisciplinary art practice, to translate the community’s oral histories into artistic interventions and installations.

Taking the baton from his earlier works, Mabu a u tswitswe, Bodulo and Landlords & Trespassers, Mashilo’s work oscillates around the ‘consequence’ of dwelling, building and thinking, often [re] interrogating and [re] articulating narratives that resonate individually and collectively about our sense of loss, nostalgia and inherited memories. His work becomes a form of conversation about the values of our societies; how they are deeply encoded in our language and the objects that are derived from them and, ultimately, how that extrapolates into the communities we grow up in.

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Selected Awards/Residencies

2013       PPC Young Concrete Sculptor Award (Fans Choice Award)

2014       Turbine Art Fair & Sylt Emerging Artist Award

2015       Sylt Residency

2016      Global Nomadic Art Project

Selected Public Commissions/Collections

Modern Art Projects

Tambo Foundation

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Selected Group/Solo Exhibitions

2013
PPC Young Sculptor Awards, Pretoria Artist Association

2014
Fresh Produce, Turbine Art Fair
Contemporary Totem Poles (Cool Capital Biennale)

2015
Landlords & Trespassers, Turbine Art Fair
Emerging Artists, Shanghai Art Fair
Capital Present, Fried Contemporary
The Spiritual in the Material”, Lizamore & Associates
FETISH, Albany Museum
When You Come Back, Art on Paper Miami
New Voices, Lizamore & Associates

2016
African Equations, Lizamore & Associates
Installation Art Fair, New York
Tokyo International Art Fair
Performing Wo/Man, North-West University Gallery
Bodulo, Rotterdam International Art Fair
Amandla! Reform, Debate, Redress, Oliewenhuis Art Museum

2017
Johannesburg Art Fair, Everard Read Gallery

2018
The Land Will Decide, solo exhibition at Everard Read Gallery
Johannesburg Art Fair, Everard Read Gallery