Representative work by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
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Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum

b. 1980, Mochudi, Botswana · Botswanan-Canadian · Based in Johannesburg, South Africa; London, UK

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Mt. Royal School of Art (MICA), Baltimore
  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Animation
  • Installation

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum creates paintings and drawings around migration, cosmology, selfhood and invented landscapes. Recurring figures, including the alter ego Asme, move through spaces shaped by science, mythology and memory.

Painting; drawing; installation

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Major Works

  • 2010sAsme series
  • 2018There Are Mechanisms in Place
  • 2019The Star at the End of the World
  • 2020sBattlecry
  • 2020sHomeplace
  • 2010sCosmological Drawings
  • 2010sLandscape with Figures
  • 2010sHybrid Portraits
  • 2020sMythic Family Scenes
  • 2020sSpeculative Interiors

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