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Athi-Patra Ruga

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Biography

Athi-Patra Ruga (born in 1984) is a South African artist who uses performance, photography, video, textiles, and printmaking to explore notions of utopia and dystopia, material and memory. His work explores the body in relation to sensuality, culture, and ideology, often creating cultural hybrids. Themes such as sexuality,Xhosa culture, and the place of queerness within post-apartheid South Africa also permeate his work. Athi-Patra Ruga was born on 9 March 1984 in Umtata in Eastern Cape, South Africa. He studied fashion history and design at the Gordon Flack Davison Design Academy in Johannesburg Ruga was recently included in the Phaidon book Younger Than Jesus, a directory of over 500 of the world’s best artists under the age of 33. In 2014 he presented in collaboration with Zanele Muholi and Nandipha Mntambo, facilitated by Hans Ulrich Obrist at Design Indaba Conference at Cape Town. Ruga has an exhibition done recently in London At 1–54 at London’s Somerset House, Of Gods, Rainbows and Omissions, also includes a collaboration of cohesive ideas for the exhibition with other South African Artists Emma Willemse, Faith47, and Thania Petersen. Ruga’s work has been purchased by numerous public and private collections, including the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa permanent collection, Iziko South African National Gallery,[7] Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, in Bolzano Italy, and the CAAC – Pigozzi Collection.

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Standard Bank Young Artist for Performance 2015, Malick Sedibe Prize for Photography , 8th Ruth Baumgarte Art Award.

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