Mr L.V.J.`Mama
Mr Thando Mama is a MFA Graduate of the Arts of Africa and Global South Research Programme in the Fine Art Department at Rhodes University. He has a professional career of over 18 years; a recipient of the Prix de la Communaute Francaise de Belgique in 2004 at the Daka’rt Biennial, the MTN New Contemporaries award in 2003. His work is mostly new media, photography, video art and installation art. He have work also as an Exhibitions Designer at Robben Island Museum and independent artist-curator and Arts Project Manager
His teaching areas include Visual Arts Literature, Graphics including traditional printmaking, analogue and digital photography. His research area are in commemorative performance, memorials and land/ landmarks, photographic archive and critical theory in contemporary South African society, including black modernist and amateur 20th century South African black photographers and art historians. Professional practice; include exhibition making, curation, visual arts content creation, curriculum development for critical theory in visual culture and art history, arts consultation.
2018 – MFA Thesis titled ‘ “Forgetting Ntaba kaNdoda”: Reciting Performative Memories at the Ntaba kaNdoda Monument (Rhodes University)
2018 – Exhibition titled “Forgetting Ntaba kaNdoda” (Albany Museum & Fort Selwyn, Grahamstown)
2017 – Exhibitions; 20th Festival of Contemporary Art Sesc_Videobrasil; Sesc Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2016 – Publication; Exhibition Review – ‘Ubuzwe’ and exhibition by Sikhumbuzo Makandula. http://www.grocotts.co.za/content/meaning-nation-and-nationhood-09-11-2016
2015 – Exhibitions; Umhobe we Sizwe/ Of Nationhood; Goethe on Main, Johannesburg
2015 – Of Nationhood/ Desolation; The AVA Gallery, Cape Town