Press
2023
A Journey Through an Artist’s Landscape of Emotion, Business Day Wanted,2023
Son[i]a #369 Sethembile Msezane, RadioWeb MACBA, 2023
2022
Bamako Encounters photography festival pulsates with revolutionary spirit, Financial Times, 2022
Sethembile Msezane- Day 2: Unlocking History and New Narratives, CIMAM, 2022
Welcome to Sethembile Msezane, artist-in-residence at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, 2022
2021
Rencontres Des Bamako 2022 | Here Is The List Of Participating Artists, Griot, 2021
Africa Writes 2021 Headlines, Africa Writes, Royal African Society, 2021
Look to your ancestral past at new Sainsbury Centre exhibition, Evening News 24, 2021
Sethembile Msezane: Dwala Lam’ + Text by Dr Portia Malatjie,Centre for Human Right and the Arts, Bard 2021
Dwala Lam': Digital Commission with Artist Sethembile Msezane , Open Society University Network, 2021
New short film ’Isimo’ propels people to self-reflect, Weekend Argus, 2021
ISIMO- A film by Sethembile Msezane, Nataal, 2021
In Conversation With Sethembile Msezane on Her Short Film ‘ISIMO’, Between 10 and 5, 2021
2020
Sethembile Msezane, Photoworks, 2020
Crossing over from spiritual world of ancestors to visual art, Sowetan, 2020
Stellenbosch Triennale, A Bold Experiment, The New York Times, 2020
Tear Down Colonial Monuments: A Conversation with Aleema Gray and Sethembile Msezane for Counter-narratives, Contranarrativas, 2020
No matter what you think of protesters, you have them to thank for society’s progress, The Correspondent, 2020
2019
Speaking Through Walls, Reuters, 2019
2018
Wonder Women, Elle Magazine 2018
OkayAfrica 100 Women Honoree, OkayAfrica, 2018
2017
Sethembile Msezane Speaks about Her Exhibition for Zeitz MOCAA, House and Leisure, 2017
TEDGlobal Conference Speaker- TED, 2017
Standing for Art and Truth: A Chat with Sethembile Msezane- TED Blog, 2017
Birds of a Revolutionary Feather- Mail & Guardian, 2017
The Poetics of Remembrance as Resistance: The Work of Sethembile Msezane- artthrob, 2017
Claiming Public Space: Artist Sethembile Msezane on History and Commemorative Practices- Bubblegum, 2017
Time of Many: The Power of Art Collectives- PETRIe Betrayal, 2017
Excerpts From the Past- Creative Feel, 2017
2016
Bad Education by M. Neelika Jayawardane- Even Magazine, 2016
The Art of Disruptions: Some Reflections: Thembinkosi Goniwe- adjective, 2016
Living Sculpture: On a Wing and a Prayer- Times Live, 2016
Speaking Truth to Statues- Times Live, 2016
Afro-Superheroes: Prepossessing the Future- Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2016
5 Young Artists Who Have us Excited about Politics- Livemag, 2016
2015
Sethembile Msezane performs at the fall of the Cecil Rhodes statue, 9 April 2015- The Guardian
The Global Face of Student Protest- The New York Times, 2015
City Press, 2015
Introspective Photographic Series Wins Sasol New Signatures Merit Award- Sasol New Signatures, 2015
Elle Meets Sethembile Msezane- Elle Magazine, 2015
Creative Women- Sethembile Msezane on Black Women and Colonialist Ideologies- Between 10 & 5, 2015
Breathing Statue Slams Afrophobia Notions- The Journalist, 2015
Portia Malatjie on the Open Stoep Residency at the AVA- Visi, 2015
The Art of Movement- City Press, 2015
2014
Bright Young Things- Art South Africa, 2014