About the Artist

Exhibiting at the Cape Gallery in Church St, Cape Town

ARTIST STATEMENT

I make art about the similarities between us and other — choosing subjects that run counter to traditional expectations, because when expectations are stripped away, something more interesting shows up. Identities are constantly disassembled and reassembled. I use whatever ideological material is at hand — found objects of the mind.

BIOGRAPHY

Kim Mobey is a South African artist based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Exhibiting since 2003, with a first solo show sponsored by Sanlam Private Investments in 2011, her work has been shown at the Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg Art Fair, and Investec Cape Town Art Fair. In 2019 her portrait Nora in Winter was shortlisted in the Sanlam Portrait Award Top 40. In 2023 she held a Goethe-Institut fellowship on arts and artificial intelligence.

Her work explores identity, displacement, and belonging — questioning how inherited narratives bear out in individual lives.

National Portrait Award short list 2019

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2021 — Rust en Vrede Gallery, Cape Town — Not A Portrait

2020 — Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town — Home is where the Art is

2019 — Rust en Vrede Gallery, Cape Town — Sanlam Portrait Award Top 40

2018 — Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town

2017 — Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg

2017 — Art Africa Fair, V&A Watershed, Cape Town

2017 — UJ Gallery, Johannesburg — PPC Imaginarium Finalist

2015 — Gallery La La, Soho, New York

2014 — Work in Progress, Cape Town

2014 — See the Point Darling, Official Residence of the Premier, Western Cape

2006 — AVA Members Exhibition, Cape Town

2005 — Barnes Art Fair, London

2005 — Atlantic Gallery, Cape Town

2005 — Carmel Gallery, Cape Town

2004 — Glimoré Gallery, Cape Town

SOLO

2011 — In This Skin, Knysna Gallery — sponsored by Sanlam Private Investments

CURATORIAL

2014 — Grand Daddy Hotel, Cape Town

2012 — The Naked Truth, Knysna Gallery, Cape Town

2004 — Three group exhibitions, Glimoré Gallery, Cape Town

2003 — Together We Stand, Glimoré Gallery

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