Stephen Langa

Stephen Langa (b. 1995) is a contemporary South African artist. Langa’s intimate imagery explores stories of the people, experiences and environment around him. Harkening back to artists like George Pemba, Claude Monet, Gerard Sekoto, Jo Maseko and more. His work presents visions of new economic narratives and reality.

Stephen Langa (b. 1995) is a Johannesburg-based South African artist from the Limpopo province, who grey up in the small town of Makopane. He specialises in several different media, including charcoal drawing, watercolour and oil painting. In 2018 he achieved his Diploma in Art & Design from Tshwane North College in Pretoria. Langa's intimate imagery explores stories of the people, experiences and environment around him. Harkening back to artists like George Pemba, Claude Monet, Gerard Sekoto, Jo Maseko and more, his work presents visions of new economic narratives and reality. Langa's work seeks to explore the intimacy of black cultural experiences, composition’s that have questions for the viewer and highlights of his own experiences of his hometown and the city. These are visually detailed to reflect his journey, experiencing life in both worlds and moving from one place to another.  While walking around Keyes Art Mile in early 2024, David Krut spied the work of Stephen Langa on show at BKhz Gallery. David  reached out to the artist, inviting Langa to come work at the David Krut Workshop at Arts on Main, Maboneng. In March of that same year,  he began working with Sbongiseni Khulu, exploring monotypes and reductive monotypes. In 2025 he had his first solo exhibition at David Krut Projects. His work was shown with the David Krut Gallery in New York at the Brooklyn Fine Art print Fair in 2025

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