Nabeeha Mohamed
Available Works
About
Nabeeha Mohamed (b.1988, Cape Town, South Africa) completed her BAFA degree at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2011. Mohamed’s very personal work grapples with the complexities and contradictions of identity and class privilege in post-Apartheid South Africa. Her paintings evoke a world that is both familiar yet strange, pensive yet full of folly, interrogating and celebrating how we might find belonging in otherness.
Mohamed has had five solo presentations including Vanitas Woe (2023) at WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, Same Sky, Different Fruit (2022) at Gallery 1957, Accra, Brown Petal (2022) at The Vault, Silo Hotel, Cape Town; Dressing Room (2021) at WHATIFTHEWORLD, and Sunshine on My Skin is My Favourite Colour (2020) at SMITH Studio, Cape Town.
Nabeeha Mohamed has participated in group exhibitions locally and internationally, notably, Self-Identity in the Face of the Global Pandemic (2021) at Gallery 1957, London, Limininality in Infinite Space (2020) at African Artists’ Foundation, Lagos, Melancholympics, The Wunderwall (2020) at PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, Don’t Give A Damns at Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam, Speculative Inquiry #1 (on Abstraction) (2019) at Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town and Close Encounters (2018) SMITH Studio, Cape Town. She has participated in residencies at Gallery 1957 artist in residency program in 2022 in Accra, Casa de Ilhabela, Brazil and at the gallery, Johannesburg.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2023 | Vanitas Woe - Vanitas Woe, WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town |
| 2022 | Same sky, different fruit, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana |
| 2021 | Brown Petal, The Vault, Silo Hotel, Cape Town |
| Dressing Room, WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town | |
| 2020 | Sunshine on my skin is my favourite colour, SMITH, Cape Town. |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2021 | Self-Identity in the Face of the Global Pandemic, Gallery 1957, London |
| 2020 | Liminality in Infinite Space, African Artists’ Foundation, Lagos |
| Melancholympics, The Wunderwall, PLUS- ONE Gallery, Antwerp | |
| Don’t Give A Damns, Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam | |
| 2019 | Rendezvous II, SMITH, Cape Town |
| Speculative Enquiry #1 On Abstraction, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town | |
| Bad Taste: Image in Crisis, SMITH Cape Town | |
| Outside, RK Contemporary, Cape Town | |
| Rocks, gallery, gallery, Johannesburg | |
| Know this place?, KZNSA, Durban | |
| 2018 | Rendezvous, SMITH, Cape Town |
| Close Encounters, SMITH, Cape Town | |
| 2017 | Summertide, The Gallery, Riebeeck Kasteel |
| 2016 | HB (A Humble Little Show), Chandler House, Cape Town |
| Fugly, Chandler House, Cape Town | |
| 2015 | Map of the New Art, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice |
| 2012 | Outside the Lines: An Exploration of Abstract Materiality, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town |
Presentations
| 2021 | Dressing Room |