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Tshepo Mosopa is an African artist. Tshepo Mosopa was the first recipient of the Reinhold Cassirer Award (2011) then supported by the late Nobel Prize laureate Nadine Gordimer at the Bag Factory Artists Studio’s, South Africa (currently the Cassirer Welz Award in partnership with Everard Read and Strauss &Co.). Tshepo was also the first winner of the inaugural SA Taxi Foundation Art Award (2015). Mosopa was recipient of the Robert Sterling Clark Fellowship Award (2013), Vermont Studio Center, and a mentor for the David Kolaone Mentorship Award for the FNB Joburg Art Fair 2014. Tshepo’s work has been in numerous Art Fairs and International Artist’s Workshop, Thupelo. Mosopa first Solo exhibition was TRANSIT in 2015 with Lizamore &Associates Gallery. His work has shown in iconic exhibitions: Bag Factory Artist’s Studios 25 and 21 year Anniversary exhibitions, Traversed and Recorded at Ithuba Art Gallery. Mosopa has exhibited with galleries such as: Lizamore and Associates Gallery, Bag Factory Artist’s Studios, AGOG, Pretoria Art Museum, SoMa Art + Space, Centurion Art Gallery to name a few. He was also a recipient of the Ithuba Arts Funds in 2012. Mosopa’s work has been selected in major Art Competition’s as a finalist: SA Taxi Foundation Art Award (2015), The Lovell Gallery Artist Competition (2013), Absa L’atelier (2013, 2009), Brainstorm Calendar Competition (2012), Sasol New Signatures (2008, 2007). He was a short listed artist for the Africa Centre Residency Programme (2014, 2012), and a top 4 finalist in the Artspace Mentorship Programme (2011). He has taken part in International Artist Residencies in South Africa, France and United States of America. Tshepo was accredited as an Education Assistant (2008) through the Education Preparatory Programme from the Pretoria Art Museum (PAM), and had co-facilitated major projects in the Museum’s calendar as the: The Children’s Tile Art Project, Educators Orientation Programme and the PAM Kidz Club. Tshepo Mosopa’s work is included in the SA Taxi Foundation Art Collection, Ellerman House Contemporary Art Collection, Bantry Bay, in Cape Town, and several cooperate collections such as HP and E.O.H to name a few and other private collectors. His work has featured in numerous Art Auctions. Currently he is a Resident Artist at the Bag Factory Artist Studios practising as a full time artist.