Sam Nhlengethwa is a South African creative collage artist and the co-founder of Bag Factory Artists' Studio.
11 Facts About Sam Nhlengethwa
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Sam Nhlengethwa began collecting jazz records from the age of 17 and started assembling his art collection in 1977 while in school and swapped his own work for those of his schoolmates.
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Sam Nhlengethwa attended the Rorke's Drift and studied at the Johannesburg Art Foundation and the Mofolo Art Centre in Soweto.
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Sam Nhlengethwa began his career in 1976 and later taught part-time at the Johannesburg-based Federative Union of Black Artists.
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Sam Nhlengethwa co-founded the Bag Factory Artists' Studio in Johannesburg in 1991 to provide studio space and artistic resources to black artists.
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Sam Nhlengethwa won the Standard Bank Young Artist award in 1994, and worked as a television technician for South African Broadcasting Corporation for 13 years.
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Sam Nhlengethwa's works are exhibited throughout globally with collections at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, the Iziko South African National Gallery, the Durban Art Gallery and numerous others.
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Sam Nhlengethwa is represented by the Goodman Gallery in South Africa.
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Sam Nhlengethwa had been featured in 23 exhibitions globally including:.
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Sam Nhlengethwa had been featured in 6 solo exhibitions including:.
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Sam Nhlengethwa's work has realized prices ranging from $81 USD to $66,202 USD in auctions.