1990年出⽣于南⾮德班，2016年获得德班理⼯⼤学纯艺术学⼠学位。姆古尼的创作探讨了⿊⼈身份、⽂化与现代性的交汇点。他主要使⽤绘画作为媒介，通过⿊⼈肖像作品叙述⿊⼈的⽣活，有意识地映照⽂化和当代话语，并呈现⿊⼈身份的多元性。⽬前，他在南⾮德班⽣活和⼯作。
姆古尼利⽤⿊⼈城市经验与视觉⽂化，在其作品探索了⼀种新兴的⾮洲现代性。他的创作展现了南⾮与世界之间的艺术交流，并揭示了⿊⼈⽂化在塑造和理解当代世界中的重要性。
姆古尼所创作的肖像作品的⼒量在于他能将殖⺠主义的艺术语境转化为⼀种新的⾮洲⽂化主体性，从⽽⿎励⼤众认同⿊⼈⺠族性的主观叙事。
受到⾃我身份的启发，姆古尼的作品展现了杂合不同⽂化、地域和身份之间游移的持续变化。通过他的艺术与美学⽅法，姆古尼在视觉上巧妙地平衡了这样⼀种⼆元对⽴：⿊⼈身份既是⼀种⼴阔⽽难以定义的整体，⼜是强⼤的⽂化驱动⼒。
Born in 1990 in Durban, South Africa, graduated with a BA in Fine Art at the Durban University of Technology in 2016. Mnguni’s practice delves into the nexus of Blackness, culture, and modernity. Employing painting as his primary medium, Mnguni’s Black portraiture highlights narratives of Black life, deliberately reflecting culture, contemporary discourse, and celebrating the diverse dimensions of Blackness. Currently, he lives and works in Durban, South Africa.
Mnguni’s work explores an emerging African modernity underpinned by an urban Black experience and visual culture. He showcases an interplay of art between South Africa and the world, illustrating how integral Black cultures are to the development and understanding of our modern world.
The power of Mnguni’s portraiture lies in his ability to subvert colonialist artistic grammar, repurposing it to celebrate a new African cultural subjecthood and find pride in narratives of subjective Blackness.
Inspired by intersections of selfhood, Mnguni’s work reflects an oscillation in a state of permanent hybridity, a movement between cultures, places, and identities. Through his artistic and aesthetic approach, the artist’s work is balanced visually between the dichotomy of Blackness as an expansive unknowable monolith and an intense generator of culture.
