Kamogelo Mosehla was born on the 1st of December 1999 in Benoni. Living in Daveyton, he attended Melodi Primary School, where he developed his love for performing art. Drawing at that time was just a hobby for him. Upon finishing primary school, he enrolled at the East Rand School of the Arts, where he began to understand what visual arts is all about and fell in love with it. In 2021, he enrolled at the University of Johannesburg for an art degree, which he completed in 2023. He just finished his honors degree in visual arts at the University of Johannesburg in 2024.

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Through my process-based practice, I explore artmaking as a ritual of recollection and connection with my ancestors. The subject of my work derives from the concepts of Motho, Umuntu (the nature of being), ancestry, violence, history, and colonial legacies. The works also delve into the terminologies of dispossession, what it means to be a “black body,” and South African jazz. Jazz is essential to my art-making process; it sets my language in motion. It’s a language that exists in between representation and transcendence. I use intuition and dreams to direct myself. When I am fully absorbed in the flow of creativity, I feel something greater than myself has taken hold of me. Badimo ba lleša koša nna ka bena. I understand my works to be that which binds the material and the immaterial together.

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