Artists

Natasha Bezuidenhout was born in East London, South Africa in 1991.

The multi-disciplinary artist holds a BTech in Fine Art (cum laude) from Walter Sisulu University, a BA Honours in Art History (2016), and an MFA with distinction from Rhodes University (2019). She is also an alumna of the Arts of Africa and the Global Souths research programme and earned an Advanced Diploma in Technical and Vocational Teaching (cum laude) from Nelson Mandela University in 2023.

Her practice investigates healing, identity, memory, nostalgia, and emotional wounding associated with childhood traumatic experiences within both factual and fictional places.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and selected for major competitions, including the Absa L'Atelier and Sasol New Signatures (Top 100, 2018). Bezuidenhout will also contribute a chapter to Audacious Art Histories: Grounding the Arts of Africa and regularly contributes to the Creative Block Exchange. Bezuidenhout's work has been acquired into the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum collection.