Nabeeha Mohamed 1988

Lives in Cape Town. Works in Cape Town.

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Nuweland

Nabeeha Mohamed (b. 1988, Cape Town, South Africa) studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town and graduated, specializing in painting, in 2011. Mohamed’s very personal work grapples with the complexities and contradictions of identity and class privilege in post-Apartheid South Africa. Her identity as a woman of colour, hushed during her childhood years in an attempt to assimilate to the white society and culture she grew up in, is now celebrated in her paintings where colour, boldness and strangeness take centre stage. Her paintings offer a tension when these celebrations of identity are intersected with a playful critique of the capitalist economy and class privilege from which she benefits.

Mohamed has participated in several group shows, including Speculative Inquiry #1 (on Abstraction) (Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town), Map of the New Art (Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice), Outside the Lines: An Exploration of Abstract Materiality (WhatiftheWorld, Cape Town), Fugly (Chandler House, Cape Town) and Close Encounters (SMITH Studio, Cape Town). In 2017 she completed a residency at Casa de Ilhabela (Ilhabela, Brazil) and she is currently working towards her first solo show to be exhibited in February 2020.

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Artworks by Nabeeha Mohamed

Overripe And Never Ready

2020

Self Portrait (Brown Study)

Articles on Nabeeha Mohamed

Africa has something to tell the rest of the world in terms of art and design

Nuweland is a new addition to the GalleryViewer platform: a gallery that goes off the beaten track in terms of content, but also in a literal sense.

Flor Linckens

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Art Rotterdam 2020

Banele Khoza, Ben Orkin, Nabeeha Mohamed, Morné Visagie, Kyu Sang Lee

5 feb - 9 feb 2020, Rotterdam, Nederland

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Mohamed has participated in several group shows, including Map of the New Art (Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice), Outside the Lines: An Exploration of Abstract Materiality (WhatiftheWorld, Cape Town), HB (A Humble Little Show) and Fugly (Chandler House, Cape Town) and Close Encounters (SMITH Studio, Cape Town). In 2017 she completed a residency at Casa de Ilhabela (Ilhabela, Brazil) and she is currently working towards her first solo show to be exhibited next year.

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