Meleko Mokgosi
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Background
Meleko Mokgosi (born in Francistown, Botswana; lives and works in Wellesley, MA) is an artist, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Yale School of Art, and the co-founder and director of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program . Mokgosi received his BA from Williams College and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study program. He received his MFA from the Interdisciplinary Studio Program at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2011. He participated in the Rauschenberg Residency at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, FL in 2015 and the Artist in Residence Program at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY in 2012.
Interests
His large-scale, figurative, and often text-based works engage history painting and cinematic tropes to investigate historiography, democracy, and liberation movements across Africa and the diaspora. His most recent body of work, Spaces of Subjection (2020 – present), examines the concept of subjection and subjectivity as they pertain to perspectives on African, African American, and Black life.
