Turiya Magadlela

Turiya Magadlela is a South African artist. She was born in 1978 in Johannesburg , South Africa . She is known for using common cloths, from pantyhose to sheeting and correctional service uniforms in her works. In 2018 She was featured in a top 10 list of African artist to invest on by times TimesLive.

Early life

Turiya studied at Funda Community College (1998) moving to University of Johannesburg (1999 - 2001) and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam.

Career and Exhibitions

Magadlela uses panty hoses – a garment with strong ties to matters of sexuality, gender, and the geopolitical exploitation of natural resources, to make her artworks. Her subject matter moves between articulations of personal experiences of women and motherhood and narratives from black South African history. Magadlela engages in a conversation on the colonization of black bodies and women. Magadlela have had solo exhibitions at the Johannesburg Art Gallery , Museum Africa and at Blank projects. Magadlela has participated in several solo and group exhibitions, both locally and internationally including Blue Black, curated by Glenn Ligon (Pulitzer Arts Foundation 2017), Simple Passion, Complex Vision: The Darryl Atwell Collection (Gantt Centre 2017), The Past is Present (Jack Shainman Gallery, The Armory Show in New York City in 2017, Les jour qui vient’ curated by Marie-Ann Yemsi at Galeries Lafayette in 2017, Blackness in Abstraction (Pace Gallery, 2016), The Quiet Violence of Dreams (Stevenson, 2016) and The Grote Oversteek (Stedelijk Museum, Netherlands). In 2002 Magadlela won the Absa L'Atelier Art Competition and was selected as Top 100 Best National Artists. The following year she was awarded the Goethe Institut and Johannesburg Art Gallery Young Artist Award. In 2015 she was awarded the FNB Art Prize. In 2018 she was shortlisted for the Jean-François Prat Prize

Accomplishments and Achievements

• 2002 ABSA L’Atelier, Top 100 Best National Artists
• 2003 Goethe Institut and Johannesburg Art Gallery Young Artist Award
• 2015 FNB Art Prize.
• 2018 Top 10 African Artists to Invest in Now by TimesLive.

• 2018 Jean-François Prat Prize (shortlisted)

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions

• 2023 When Angels Speak of Love, Triangle Art Space, NY curated by Charles Moore.
• 2020 Mirror Mirror: LatchKey Ny, NY

• 2019

Mashadi WouldSay..., MSGSU Resim ve Heykel Muzesi, Santiyesi, Istanbul,Turkey

• 2017

The Armory Show, Solo Exhibit for the Armory Show Presents, New York City, NY

• 2015

Impilo ka Lova, Blankprojects, Cape Town, South Africa Kaffersheet, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.

• 2015

Imihuzuko (for the FNB Art Prize), FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa

• 2012

Everybody knows uFeela, Blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa.

• 2001- 2002

Activate Architects, Johannesburg, South Africa

• 2001

Generator's Art Space, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Collections

Kunsthalle Krems, Brooklyn Museum , LACMA Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, UMOCA Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Sugar Hill Museum, Harlem, NY, UT Black Arts and Studies, Hearst Collection, Amir Shariat Collection, Adjmi Collection, Roux Art Collection, Princeton University Art Museum , African Art Museum, MOCAK Karokow, Poland.