Dineo Seshee Bopape

Dineo Seshee Bopape
Born 1981
Polokwane, South Africa
Nationality South African
Occupation Contemporary visual artist
Years active 2003 -- present
Website seshee.blogspot.com

Dineo Seshee Bopape is a South African multimedia artist. Using experimental video montages, sound, found objects, photographs and dense sculputural installations, her artwork "engages with powerful socio-political notions of memory, narration and representation." [1] [2][3]

Life

Bopape was born in Polokwane, South Africa, in 1981. She studied painting and sculpture at the Durban Institute of Technology, and graduated from De Ateliers in Amsterdam in 2007. In 2010 she completed an MFA at Columbia University in New York.[4][5][6]

Among other venues, Bopape's work has been shown at the New Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, the Mart House Gallery in Amsterdam, and the 12th Biennale de Lyon. She was the winner of the 2008 MTN New Contemporaries Award, and the recipient of a 2010 Columbia University Toby Fund Awards. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Massara, Kathleen (April 6, 2009). "Detritus and Drawings: The Art of Dineo Seshee Bopape". Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "DINEO SESHEE BOPAPE". Suspicious Minds. August 1, 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "ART AFRICA In Conversation with Dineo Seshee Bopape". Art Africa. Art Africa. September 1, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Dineo Seshee Bopape". One Art. January 1, 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  5. ↑ Barnes, Friere (August 1, 2015). "Dineo Seshee Bopape: slow -co- ruption". Time Out.
  6. 1 2 Hegert, Natalie (November 1, 2009). "RackRoom Interview with Dineo Seshee Bopape". Art Slant. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
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