Songezo Zantsi’s paints poignant moments of human interactiondraw on a long history of realism in painting.  Zantsi features natural poses, movements, and attitudes which are reflective of social realities that surround the artist and which he proposes are responsible for the culture of a society.

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Biography

Songezo Zantsi was born in 1991 in Cape Town. He grew up with his grandparents in Alice, a historically significant town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. He currently lives and works in Cape Town.

In 2022, Zantsi presented his first solo exhibition titled IInkumbulo and in 2024 is second Iyabulela Ilali at Vela Projects, Cape Town. He has been part of group exhibitions at the Association of Visual Arts, Cape Town (2021) and Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town (2022).