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Spaces of Subjection: Prints (Part 1), 2023


About the artist

Born in 1981 in Francistown, Botswana, Mokgosi was raised in the city of Maun. After moving to the United States, in 2003, he earned his bachelor’s degree from Williams College in Massachusetts and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study program, both in 2007. He earned his master of fine arts degree from the Interdisciplinary Studio Program at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2011 and was an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem from 2011-2012. An associate professor at the Yale School of Art in New Haven, Mokgosi serves as co-director of Graduate Studies in Painting/Printmaking.

Mokgosi’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including recent solo exhibitions at The Pérez Art Museum Miami; the Williams College Museum of Art; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Fowler Museum at UCLA; and the Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, among others.

His work is included in the collections of The Pérez Art Museum, the Baltimore Art Museum, the Hammer Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, among many others.

various dimensions ranging in size from 16 ¾" x 16 ¾" to 28" x 36.5"

Five etchings in a grouping Edition of 6

Master Printer Tom Reed

Methods Etching


Included in the portfolio


etching of a german shepherd with the words "enter at your own risk"
etching of a woman lying face down on couch in domestic space
portrait of a woman wearing a necklace
print with two smaller rectangles, one with text and the other with labeled food items
etching of a person wearing a tank top and a baseball cap backwards