Nokukhanya Langa’s instantly recognisable canvases represent a bringing together of abstraction with disparate disgrammatic elements. The artist’s practice extends beyond paint into the fabric of the canvas itself, shaped by the artist into organic and playful forms, which lend her work a sculptural, tactile quality. Langa’s canvases embody an accumulation of lived experience, depicting phrases and image fragments culled from contemporary internet culture and Langa’s own childhood, as well as those allegories and fairytales which shaped it.
Langa was born in 1991 in Maryland. Langa’s work is held in collection by the Centre Pompidou as part of the DUST: The Plates of the Present commission. Solo exhibitions of the artist’s work have been held in the US, Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK, where she is represented by Saatchi Yates. Langa is recipient of numerous accolades including the C.o.C.A Award, 2022. Having lived and studied across the US, India, the Netherlands and Belgium, Langa lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.