Guest Resident at Thami Mnyele Foundation - Amsterdam, Netherlands















b.1993 - Mamaila ZAF
based in Mamaila - South Africa & Amsterdam - Netherlands






SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025Tomorrow is Another Day - Stevenson Gallery, JHB, South Africa

2024mokete, MOU PROJECTS, Hong Kong

2023Figures, Stevenson, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2022Equivocations: Duo show with Paula Rego - Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
Deja Vu - Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
along came your eyes - Hermitage Amsterdam, Netherlands

2021We just want to be closer: Duo show with Singarum Moodley - MARTa Herfod, Herfod, Germany
my hero is always next to me - Stroom, Den Haag, Netherlands
Neo Matloga - Vrienden v/h S.M.A.K. Gent, Belgium

2020Back of the Moon - Stevenson Gallery, JHB, South Africa

2019neo to love - Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands 

2018Good Morning Midnight curated by Tom Morton - De Ateliers, Amsterdam




GROUP SHOWS

2025And I, a newly evolved fish - Iyatsiba Lab, Cape Town, South Africa
When We See Us, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium

Collage: Glimpses of the Now, Four Corners, London, United Kingdom


2024Circulate: Photography Beyond Frames, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
WHEN WORKS MEET, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Licked by the Waves, Museum MORE, Gorssel, The Netherlands
When We See Us, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Heem, Fries Musuem, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Self-Portrait, GRIMM Gallery, New York, USA

2023Sala, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection, Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin, USA
Africa Supernova, Kunsthal KAde, Amersfoort, the NetherlandsCODA Paper Art 2023, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands

Brave New World: 16 Painters for the 21st Century - Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherland


2022When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting - Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
Where do I begin - Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
THIS IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS - Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg
Note to self - Galerie Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium

2021'29 at Reinbeckhallen' Bode Projects, Berlin, Germany MY WHOLE BODY CHANEGED INTO SOMETHING ELSE - Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Watou 2021 - Poperinge, Belgium HI-STORYTELLING - Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany

2019ofte vojagantoj - 360 kunst Wilford X, Temse, Belgium Still Here Tomorrow To High Five You Yesterday  - Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa Winter Sun - Stevenson Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands de Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs - Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands BIG AND PLENTY - AVL Mundo, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2018ABOUT FACE - Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Royal Award for Modern Painting - Koninklijk Paleis, Amsterdam, Netherlands Intersection -  Tyburn Gallery, London, UK Tell Freedom, 15 South African artists’ - Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands

2017“LET’S SEE, WHERE WERE WE, IN THE PIT OF DESPAIR” - De Ateliers, Amsterdam

2016Post Its - Constitutional Court, JHB, South Africa
South African voices - Gallery van Dorst, Wassenaar, Netherlands 
Considering Genius – Res Gallery, JHB, South Africa

2015NEW VOICES IV - Lizamore and Associates Gallery, JHB, South Africa
Time Line – Bag Factory, JHB, South Africa
SA Taxi Art Award – Lizamore and Associates Gallery, JHB, South Africa
South African and Chinese exchange - Workers Museum, JHB, South Africa

2014NEWNOWNEXT – Galerie NOKO, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Graduate show – FADA student exhibition, JHB, South Africa
South African New Voices - Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington DC




AWARDS 

2021ABN AMRO Art Prize

2019Nominated. Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs

2018Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst (Royal Award for Modern Painting)

2015Shortlisted. SA Taxi Art Award 

2014NEWNOWNEXT Award – Galerie NOKO




RESIDENCIES

2025Casa Santa Ana - Panama City, Panama 

2019AVL Mundo - Rotterdam, Netherlands

2016-2018De Ateliers - Amsterdam, NetherlandsGuest Resident at Thami Mnyele Foundation - Amsterdam, NetherlandsZeitz MOCAA Artist in Residence at Segera - Laikipia, Kenya

2015Bag Factory - OR Tambo visiting artist programme, South Africa




COLLECTIONS

City of Ekurhuleni, South Africa.

South African Embassy, Washington DC, USA.

Thami Mnyele Foundation

KRC Collection

Fries Museum

SMAK

The Dean Collection

Dordrechts Museum 

Chazen Museum of Art

ABN AMRO Art Collection

Inhotim Museum

Stedelijk Museum