Meleko Mokgosi

Meleko Mokgosi is a Botswana-born, New York-based artist known for large-scale narrative painting that interrogates colonialism, postcolonialism, and the politics of representation in southern Africa. His monumental, cinematic works draw on art history, psychoanalytic theory, and Marxist critique to examine how desire, labor, and power are constructed within African contexts. He has been recognized as a significant voice in contemporary painting, with works exhibited at major international institutions.