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Kim Mobey is a visual artist with thirty years of professional practice in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. Her work examines identity, migration, displacement, and belonging. Her work treats age, race, gender, and historical era as fluid elements, generating meaning through implication and direct contrast within the work itself. She has sold to international collectors throughout her career and exhibits internationally. She relocated from South Africa to Montevideo, Uruguay in 2025, where she maintains an active studio practice.

Selected Exhibitions

2021 — The Cape Gallery Wildlife 2021

2021 — Rust en Vrede Gallery, Cape Town — Not A Portrait

2020 — Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town — Home is where the Art is

2020 — Rust en Vrede Gallery, Cape Town — The Grand

2019 — Rust en Vrede Gallery, Cape Town — National Portrait Top 40

2018 — Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town

2017 — Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg

2017 — Johannesburg Art Fair, Johannesburg

2017 — Art Africa Fair, V&A Watershed, Cape Town

2011 — In This Skin (solo), Knysna Gallery — sponsored by Sanlam Private Investments

Awards and Competitions

2019 — Sanlam Portrait Award, Top 40 Shortlist

2017 — PPC Imaginarium Awards, Sculpture Finalist

2017 — World of Design Competition, Finalist — CTICC, Cape Town

Fellowships and Residencies

2023 — Fellowship, Goethe-Institut — Arts and Artificial Intelligence