asemahle ntlonti
Asemahle Ntlonti was born in 1993 in Cape Town, South Africa. She graduated from the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2017, where she majored in sculpture. She was awarded the Hoosein Mahomed Award for Excellence in 2015 and the Barbara Fairhead Award for Social Responsibility in 2014. Ntlonti was a top 10 finalist for the Barclays L’Atelier Award 2016, participated in Infecting The City Arts Festival 2016 and was also a finalist for Sasol New Signatures Art Competition, 2015. She is a member of iQhiya, a collective of 11 black women based in Cape Town, Johannesburg, South Africa and Botswana. iQhiya recently participated in Documenta 14, 2017 and has exhibited and performed in various spaces around South Africa. Ntlonti Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.
Born 1993. Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa
EDUCATION
2017
BAFA, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa
2011
NSC (National Senior certificate) Plumstead High school, Cape Town
EXHIBITIONS
2017
Salon 2017/2018, Group Show, AVA, Cape Town
AFTERWARD, Group Show, Blank Projects, Woodstock, Cape Town
HOLD, Group Show, Ruth Prowse, Woodstock, Cape Town
iQhiya, Group Show, UKZNSA, Kwazulu Natal
Greatest Hits, Group Show, AVA gallery, Cape Town
Kukho Isililo Somntu, Solo show with Senzeni Marasela, Blank projects, Woodstock, Cape Town
Unsex me, Group Show, Evol Night Club, Cape Town
Grad Show 2017, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town
2016
iQhiya, Group Show, AVA, Cape Town
Echoing Voices from Within: Rhodes Must Fall exhibition, performance, Centre for African Studies Gallery
Barcley’s L’Atelier Art Competition Top 100, Absa Art gallery, Johannesburg
2015
Sasol New signatures Art Competition Top 100, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
ACHIEVEMENTS
2016
Barcley’s L’Atelier top 10 finalists
Infecting The City Arts Festival
2015
Became a member of iQhiya
Sasol New Signatures Art Competition top 100 finalists
The Hoorein Mahomed Award for the excellence
2014
The Barbara Fairhead Award for Social Responsibility
COLLABORATION AND PARTICIPATION IN ART PROJECTS
2017
I cut myself to liberate the splinter, Performa 17, Kemang Wa Lehulere, The Connelly Theater, New York City
The Portrait, performance and installation, Documenta 14, Athens School of Fine Art, Athens
2016
Menye Menye, Performance, Joburg Art Fair Preview, Johannesburg
The Commute pt II, performance installation, Institute For Creative Arts Launch, Hiddingh Campus, University of Cape Town, Cape Town
The Communte pt I, performance installation, Museum Night, in association with Iziko National Gallery, Cape Town
The Portrait II, performance, V & A Waterfront, Museum Night, in association with Iziko National Gallery, Cape Town
The Portrait I, performance, Greatmore Studios, #theopening, Cape Town