Philiswa Lila

With a B Tech in Fine and Applied Art, an Honours degree in Curatorship and currently pursuing a Masters in Art History at Rhodes University, Philiswa Lila is an artist, curator and scholar fascinated by the socially relevant and timely issues of authorship and agency.  

Lila has participated in a number of residency programmes and exhibitions nationally, including the Joburg Art Fair, Dialogue with the Masters, Young 14 at Bag Factory Studios, Beyond the Academy at Fried Contemporary, and The Spaces Between Maps at the ABSA KKNK Festival.  In 2009 she was awarded a merit award in the ABSA L’Atelier competition and in 2015 selected for the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital Trust Review Exhibition.