Lemkus Gallery is excited to announce our new artist-in-residence, Pebofatso Mokoena. Mokoena (b.1993)  in Ekurhuleni, South Africa, is an artist working within the triad of drawing, printmaking, and painting who currently lives and works in Johannesburg. 

Pebofatso Mokoena completed his National Diploma (Visual Art) at the University of Johannesburg. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (Honours) at Wits University with distinction, acquiring both the Postgraduate Merit Award and Merit Award at the Wits Young Artist Award in the same year. Mokoena went on to earn his Master of Arts in Fine Arts (distinction) at Wits University.

Mokoena has held 7 solo exhibitions: The Pebofatso Experience, Inside Jobs, Internal Probes, Neoclassical Taste Matrix, Space Dot Conundrums, Diamond Dust Apostrophes, and Scenographies of the Hologram. Selected group exhibitions include: Fieldworks: Situated Practice in Art and Architecture (UK); Future Worldings (Canada), SENSES, Negotiating Chaos; and Occupation@JAG. Mokoena is part of the writing group Secret Society of Publishers alongside Philiswa Lila, Fouad Asfour and Londiwe Mtshali. The group has published writing in Creative Knowledge Resource (CKR), De Arte, Time of the Writer, with presentations at Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, KLA ART ’25, and SAVAH Conferences.

Mokoena has his own writing published in Curating Johannesburg ed. by Fadzai Muchemwa, Das Bauhaus Verfehlen, Greater Missing The Bauhaus, ed. by Alexander Opper and Katharina Fink.