Category: Nabeeha Mohamed

Nabeeha Mohamed (b.1988) is a South African artist based in Cape Town. She studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. Her very personal work grapples with the contradictions of identity and class privilege in post-Apartheid South Africa. Her position 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 and strangeness take centre stage. 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 group exhibitions locally and internationally and has had 4 solo presentations to date.