MUSA N. NXUMALO

I am an artist, documentary photographer, and podcaster based in Johannesburg, South Africa. I consider myself a wanderer that borrows from the culture of explorers to pursue a lifelong journal and autobiography that integrates all these practices, in order to write my journey as I navigate, explore, discover and reflect on life and society as a heterosexual Black millennial man.

My work is currently influenced by Chasing Shadows (Santu Mofokeng), House Of Bondage (Ernest Cole), Sons Of The Living (Bryan Schutmaat) and Anthology Of A Decade by Hedi Slimane.

DIRECT CONTACTS

studio.nxumalo@icloud.com

+27815706323 - WhatApp Only

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Suburbia Contemporary

Carrer de Valencia 345, 08009
Barcelona, Spain

Spinnereistraße 7, Halle 4B, 04179
Leipzig, Germany

info@suburbiacontemporary.com

M +34 691089888
T +34 936763992

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2010-14 : Portfolio Readings Master Class, Goethe-Institut

2010 : Borders Master Class, Johannesburg.

2009 : Digital Workflow Master Class, Africa Media online.

2008 : Photography training, Market Photo Workshop.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 : We Are Running Out Of Hashtags! SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

2017 : 16 Shots, SMAC Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.

2009 : Alternative-Kidz [Travelling Exhibition], Stevenson Gallery

2009 : Alternative-Kidz [Travelling Exhibition], Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 - 25 : A Public Affair: Final Act, Cloud Seven, Belgium

2020 : NIRIN – 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

2019 : Crossing Night: Regional Identities x Global Context, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, USA.

2019 : Africa State of Mind [Travelling Exhibition]

2018 : Night Fever: Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today, Adam – Brussels Design Museum,Brussels, Belgium.

2018 : At Large publication Launch, Bad Paper, FNB Joburg Art Fair.

2017 : Platform Africa, Apeture Summer Issue Launch, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair.

2017 : Être là, South Africa, a contemporary art scene, Art/Afrique, le novel atelier, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France.

2017 : Perigrinate [Travelling Exhibition].

2016 : Close to Home: New Photography from Africa, The Walther Collection, USA.

2015 : On Fire: Notions of Community in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Berlin, Germany.

2015 : Peregrinate [Travelling Exhibition], Goethe-Institut, Cote D’Ivoire.

2015 : Next Generation: Emerging Photographers from South Africa, Queens College, USA.

2014 : Peregrinate, FNB Joburg Art Fair (Goethe-Institut), South Africa.

2013 : My Joburg, Maison Rouge Gallery, Paris, France.

2013 : Space Between Us, ifa-Galerie, Berlin, Germany.

2012 : Shoe Shop Project, Goethe-Institut.

2011 : The Night Show, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

2010 : ...For Those Who Live In It, Mu Project Space, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

2009 : Alternative-Kidz, Stevenson Gallery (Side Gallery Project), Cape Town, South Africa.