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Zwelethu Mthethwa
South African painter and photographer
Zwelethu Mthethwa (born 1960) is a South African painter and photographer.
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He was convicted of murder in 2017, and is currently incarcerated at Pollsmoor Prison.[1]
Biography
Mthethwa, a native of Durban, graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
In 1985 he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in imaging arts in 1989.[2] Upon returning home, he worked for some years in business, and then became a lecturer on photography and drawing at the Michaelis School in 1994.
He left the post in 1999 to devote himself full-time to his art. Mthethwa is known for his large format color photographs, but also works in paint and pastel; he has had over 50 solo exhibitions in galleries around the world.
His work was included in the 2005 Venice Biennale[3] and the 2004 Gwangju Bienn