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Moshekwa Langa
South African contemporary artist
Moshekwa Langa (born 1975) is a South African visual artist whose work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, video, and photography.[1]
Biography
Moshekwa Langa was born in Bakenburg, Limpopo, South Africa in 1975.
He began studying art history around the age of 15, which made him want to become an artist. Some time after high school, he came to view making art as an opportunity to become part of an "ongoing story."[2] He studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (the State Academy of Fine Arts) in Amsterdam.[3] As of 2021, Langa was based in Amsterdam and had work on permanent exhibition at MoMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Tate Modern, among others.[4]
Career
Langa has said about his work, "If I had to explain what I do to someone, I would say I make kind of dreamscapes…I try to record aspects of waking and sleeping time."[5] One critic