Siwa Mgoboza was born 1993 in Cape Town and completed his BA Fine Art in 2015, he majored in Painting, at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. Having been raised abroad for most of his life, his work deals with the exploration of the globalized African sense of self, a Western upbringing and the subliminal space where these identities exist. His work examines the construction of identity and tangled relationship between Africa and the West and their respective histories. Mgoboza describes himself as a ‘post post-colonial’ hybrid, questioning the meaning of culture and national definitions.