Artist CV
Tinyiko Makwakwa
b. 1984 Johannesburg, South Africa.
Makwakwa is a Visual artist, primarily working in Textile art with a focus on natural dyes.
Selected Solo
2025 Umbhaco Oditshiweyo- SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
2023 The BluePrint- Kalashnikov Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa.
2021 Cosmos and Community - Kalashnikov Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Hlukanisa uHlanganise - Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Terrain - Ebony Curated, Franschhoek, South Africa.
Vol III Tropology of image and imagination - BMWartgeneration X BMWyoungcollectorsco, Nirox, South Africa.
A very Loop Street Summer - Ebony Curated, Cape Town, South Africa.
2024 Refuse the given world - Kalashnikov Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Steelwool and other Paradoxes - Latitudes Center of the arts, South Africa
Gathered II - SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2023 All that she carried - Latitude Center for the Arts, Johannesburg, South Africa
2022 New Signings - Kalashnikov Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Selected Art Fairs
2025 RMB Latitudes Art Fair - INDEX Kavula Studio, Johannesburg, South Africa.
FNB Art Fair - Kalashnikov Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2024 FNB Art Fair - Kalashnikov Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
RMB Latitude Art Fair - Kalashnikov Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Investec Art Fair - Kalashnikov Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2023 Investec Art Fair - Kalashnikov Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
1-54 Contemporary Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
RMB Latitude Art Fair - Kalashnikov Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2022 Turbine Art Fair - Kalashnikov Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Collections:
2025 More Family Collection, Johannesburg. RSA
2024 Iziko Museum of South Africa, Cape Town, RSA
Residencies:
2025 South African Foundation and Fellowship for contemporary art and Lion Sands game reserve.
Panel Talks
2024 Wits Arts Museum (Wam) Then and Now: Innovations in African Textile,
Johannesburg, South Africa
2023 twyg Textile Talk Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
2022 twyg Textile Talk Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
Workshop Facilitation
2024 Hazendale festival: Stellenbosch South Africa.
Goethe Insitute JHB Lapa Brixton Project Artist in Residence Natural dye
2023 Goethe Insitute JHB Lapa Brixton Project Artist in Residence Natural dye
2022 Goethe Insitute JHB Lapa Brixton Project Artist in Residence Natural dye