Mixed-medium painting; portraiture; expanding into sculpture, textile, video, and scent
Kganya Mogashoa
About the Artist
A full-time fine artist and women's rights activist, Mogashoa is passionate about addressing the lack of female representation in leadership and the social ills that affect women. Her acclaimed Sheroes Rands series reimagined South African banknotes with women's portraits — including Winnie Mandela, Charlotte Maxeke, and Lillian Ngoyi — challenging audiences to confront the near-total absence of women from the country's public currency.
Born in 1994, Mogashoa is self-taught and left a career in interior design in 2019 to pursue fine art full-time through her company Koranges Art. Her newer series Reflections of a Queen continues Sheroes Rands — foregrounding iconic female struggle figures including Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, and Ruth Mompati, restoring forgotten faces to public consciousness through portraiture. She works from a studio at Ellis House Art Building in Johannesburg.
Based In
Johannesburg, South Africa (studio at Ellis House Art Building)
Medium
Mixed-medium painting; portraiture; expanding into sculpture, textile, video, and scent
Discipline
Painting, portraiture, women's rights activism, founder of Koranges Art (Pty) Ltd
Themes
Women's representation and value, female leadership, the rewriting of monetary and monumental iconography, restoring forgotten women to public memory
Notable Exhibitions
Sheroes Rands* (Solo, 2023); *Reflections of a Queen* (Front Gallery, AVA, Cape Town, 26 June – 31 July 2025); BASA "My Debut Story" panel
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