Post-colonial Pack Leader - 2015

80.5 x 62 cm
Acrylic on canvas

Proud Soldier (After Pemba’s ‘Soldier’) - 2014

110.7 x 77 cm
Oil on canvas

Themba Shibase

Born in Port Shepstone, 1980. Lives in Durban, South Africa

Themba Shibase is a South African Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1980. Shibase’s work is anchored in questions of identity and authenticity, negotiating the seemingly disparate practices of ancestral heritage and urban culture.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017

Themba Shibase: Give-and-Take, Push-and-Pull, SMAC Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2015

Themba Shibase: Slightly Off Centre ,SMAC Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012

PAINT I: Contemporary South African Painting 2002 - 2012, SMAC Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa

2010

Living in KZN: Group show,Artspace Berlin, Germany

2008

Home is my Castle, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa