Tsoku Maela

Exhibitions
2014 – Boom! Baby group exhibition: Young Blood beautiful life Gallery, Cape Town
2014 – Month of Photography group exhibition and talk: Mogalakwena Gallery 2015 – Mass is art group exhibition: Pan African Market, Cape Town
2015 – Cape GRID International Photography Bennial: Castle of Good hope, Cape Town
2015 – Broken Things: A story of self-love: Solo Exhibition, 99 Loop Gallery 2016 – Barongwa: I am that I am: Solo Exhibition, 99 Loop Gallery
2016 – Rituals, LagosPhoto Festival, Nigeria (Broken Things)
2017 – Photo17, solo, Directors selection (Broken Things), Zurich
2017 – Turbine Art Fair, Lizamore and Associate Gallery
2017 – 35 years: Trailblazers group exhibition, Lizamore & Associates gallery 2017 – FNB Joburg Art Fair, group exhibition with Ablade Glover & Tony Gum, Christopher Moller gallery
2018 – ICT Cape Town Art Fair, group show with Neo Matloga, Ablade Glover
(including Andrew Solgado Solo)
2018 – No More clichés, please, solo. Lizamore & Associates gallery
2018 – In Silva group exhibition (including: Gina Waldman, Diane Victor, Anastasia Pather), Kalashnikov gallery, Johannesburg.
2018 – Appropriate, PULSE Art Fair, Art Basel, Miami- Christopher Moller gallery 2019 – In Silva, KKNK Festival, Oudtshoorn
2020 – Heart & Mind, Silvermine Arts center, New Canaan, Connecticut
2020 – Je Sais Pourquoi Chante L’oiseau en cage, Montreal, Quebec
2020- Photo London fair (Digital)
2020 – AKAA (Also Known as Africa) art and design fair, Paris
2021 – London Art Fair (Digital), African Arty
2021 – Art Market Budapest w/ Christopher Moller
2022 – 1-54 Contemporary Art Fair, Paris, w/ African Arty
2022 – ‘Stories we should tell’, Harvard Graduate School of Design
2022 – Africa Foto Fair, MuCAT, Côte d’Ivoire

Talks
– “The language of crazy”, State of Dis-ease: A transdisciplinary workshop on South African health and Illness presented by JIAS , University of Witwatersrand (2019), curated by Dr. Beth Vale

– Strauss & Co Masterclass: Using Photography to document the future -Tsoku Maela in conversation with Richard Ndimande. Strauss & Co (2019)

– Mental health stigma discussion with Sarah Agatoni, Hamwe Festival (Rwanda), University of Global Health Equity (2020)

– Dagmar Van Weeghel and Tsoku Maela in conversation with Dr. Amanda Maples (curator of African Art North Carolina Museum of Art), AKAA art design fair (2020)

– Exploring identity through photography: Diane Smyth in conversation with Jane England, Adjoa Armah and Tsoku Maela, Photo London (2021)

– Masculinity, Mental health & Creativity: A conversation with Tsoku Maela and Abbas Zahedi. Chaired by Sai Murray. Hosted by Healing Justice London (2021)

Awards
Standard Bank Rising Star Award: Media & Marketing (2016)
CAP Prize shortlist 2016 & 2019
Movement: Art for social change/racial justice, 3rd place (Chicago, Illinois), 2021
The Lancet Psychiatry Cover Artist, 2022 (London)