Lebogang Mogul Mabusela (b. 1996, Mabopane, South Africa) is a Zinequeen and Monotypebabe practising in Johannesburg. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from the Wits School of Arts, where she was awarded the 2019 Standard Bank Fine Arts Prize.
Lebogang Mogul Mabusela employs drawing, printmaking, and paper as mediums to explore the experience of navigating public spaces as a woman and feminine body. Her ongoing series of text-based portraits delves into themes such as language, the male gaze, catcalling, and voyeurism, all situated within the urban landscape of Johannesburg where she lives, works, and plays.
Her intimate oil pastel drawings on paper capture portraits of men—sometimes handsome, charmer, creepy, cleva, benevolent, geriatric, nice, and skelem—adorned with gold chains bearing their attention-seeking verbal expressions or "mating calls." This portrayal serves as a poignant commentary on misogynoir, illustrating that the enduring scrutiny and objectification of women's bodies is a timeless fashion.
In 2022, Mabusela presented her inaugural solo exhibition, Ukwatile?, at Johannesburg's Stevenson Gallery through their STAGE program. The exhibition explored themes of language, catcalling, and voyeurism.
She has also participated in a number of group exhibitions including: Cape Town Art Fair, Artist’s Proof Studios, Cape Town, South Africa (2023); STAGE 4, Stevenson Gallery at The Vault, Silo Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa (2023); Manifold (Deluxe), FF Projects at Frieze Cork street, London, UK (2023); Love Your Family, Wunika Mukan Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria; A Hook, Studio Nxumalo, Johannesburg, South Africa (2022); Practices Of Repair, Goethe Institut, The Point of Order, Johannesburg, South Africa (2022); Pilot, Under Projects, Cape Town, South Africa (2022); Stevenson Gallery at Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa (2022); Where do I Begin, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2022); Alone Of Its Kind, David Krut Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2022).
In 2019, she was a Design Indaba Top 50 Emerging Creative. Mabusela was nominated for the 2024 Norval Sovereign African Art Prize.
