Sizwe Khoza: Memory, Identity, and Monotype in Contemporary South African Art
Sizwe Khoza is a contemporary South African artist whose work in monotype printmaking, painting, and portraiture has earned him national and international acclaim. Born in Mozambique during the final years of that country’s civil war, he moved with his family to South Africa in 1995, growing up in a context shaped by both displacement and cultural transition. His early experiences between two national identities inform his deep engagement with memory, belonging, and personal history. After completing his schooling, Khoza began intensive art training that would define his lifelong commitment to visual storytelling. As a student at Nkumbulo Comprehensive School, Khoza attended Saturday classes at Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg, where he first encountered printmaking techniques like monotype and linocut. He graduated from the studio’s complete training program in 2012. In 2013, he was awarded a residency at the William Humphrey Art Gallery in Kimberley under the mentorship of th...