ARTIST BIO
Nyaniso Lindi is a visual artist and independent curator currently living in Makhanda. He is a Gerard Sekoto award winning artist (2009) and studied toward a Fine Art degree at Rhodes University.
Lindi is a master printmaker who patronises his technique across print mediums but confesses to relief printing – specifically Colour Reduction being close to his heart.
His work has been exhibited in many spaces including the National Arts Festival, Cite Internationale des Arts – Paris, the MoMa Art Gallery in New York, various art spaces in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. As well having participated in numerous group exhibitions and cultural exchanges across South Africa, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Mozambique, Nigeria and in Northern America. As well as Beijing. Some of those include Cross – Cultural Identities, and Art For Humanity: Break The Silence Billboard Campaign. He’s also the co-founder artist of eGazini Community Outreach Project established in the early 2000’s in Makhanda – home to the National Arts Festival.
Currently, Lindi teaches art in community spaces and is the co- founder of The Open Space, a concept pop-up art gallery and empty stage for creative across all art disciplines and hosts Creative Kids Master Art Classes in what he calls “children I hang out with and let them beat me at chess with really much more talent than I have”.
He is also the curator of the Thandeka Stamper Art Galari- the only recorded art gallery in a village in South Africa where he is the driver behind the public art and urban renewal project in rural & township spaces. This ongoing PADP (Public Art Development Project called Makana Freedom Route) includes public art stretching between Matyana River in Makhanda to Peddie on the R345 to Hamburg Beach.
Lindi is currently working towards two new bodies of work, “Battered and Broozed” and a solo multi-media exhibition called “Waya -Waya”… Imoto Yocingo.