Bongiwe Dhlomo-Mautloa

Bongiwe or Bongi Dhlomo-Mautloa , (born 1956) is a Zulu South African printmaker, arts administrator and activist.

She was born in Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal, and educated at St Chad's School in Ladysmith and Inanda Seminary School. She furthered her studies at Rorke's Drift Art and Craft Centre studying printmaking and gained a diploma in fine arts.

Exhibitions

2022: When Rain Clouds Gather: Black South African Women Artists, 1940–2000, The Norval Foundation, Cape Town. (Curated by Portia Malatjie and Nontobeko Ntombela) - Group exhibition

2022: Yakhalinkomo. Javett- UP Gallery, University of Pretoria, Tshwane. (Curated by Tumelo Mosaka with Sipho Mndanda as Co-Curator and Phumzile Twala as Research and Education Coordinator) - Group Exhibition

2018: FUBA: Preserving a Legacy, Keyes Art Mile, Johannesburg.

2017: A Labour of love, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg.

2015: A Labour of Love, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.

2014: Impressions of Rorke’s Drift – The Jumuna Collection, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.

2012: A Fragile Archive, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg.

2010: Strengths and Convictions: The Lives and times of South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Nobel Peace Centre, Oslo.

2003: Rorke’s Drift: Empowering Prints 1962 – 1982, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Durban Art Gallery, Durban.

2003: Time, Memory and Desire, Standard Bank Art Gallery, Johannesburg.

1999: [Rewind] Fast Forward.za, Van Reekum Museum of Modern Art, Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

1998: Trans Figurative, Association of Visual Arts Gallery, Cape Town.

1989 – 1990: Art/Images in Southern Africa, Kulturhuset, Stockholm.

1988: The Neglected Tradition, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg.

1986: Images of South Africa (solo exhibition), Gaborone.

Publications 2004: Dhlomo, B and Godby, M “Art and Politics in a Changing South Africa: Bongi Dhlomo in Conversation with Michael Godby."African Arts, vol. 37, no. 4.