Vulindlela Nyoni

Vulindlela Philani Elliott Nyoni was born in Chilimanzi, Zimbabwe in 1976 and attained a Bachelor of Arts in the Fine Arts from the then University of Natal in 1998 and a Masters in Fine Arts from the now University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2006. His Masters thesis was entitled "Representations of 'other' in selected South African artworks: Re-membering the black male body". Nyoni is a lecturer at the Department of Visual Art at the University of Stellenbosch after lecturing at and eventually heading the Art Department at UKZN. Apart from being a practicing artist, Nyoni also lectures in Printmaking and Drawing. His main interests lie in the politics of representation and self-representation as exploration of personal narrative through print media. Nyoni has served as a national and regional selector for the Sanlam Portrait Award, Absa Atelier and Sasol New Signatures competition. He has shown widely on a national level and continues to expand his international profile as artist, educator and curator. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at GUS Gallery Stellenbosch in 2014 entitled ERRANT He continues to make his own work at any opportunity he has.