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Thero Makepe

It’s Not Going to Get Better (2024)

We Didn’t Choose to be Born Here (2020 -)

Music from My Good Eye (2019)

Fly Machine/Mogaka (2018)

Monna O Montsho (2018)

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We Didn't Choose to be Born Here (Installation View), Javett-UP Art Centre, 2026 - 2027 The Place that Dried Up, 2023 We Didn't Choose to be Born Here (Installation View), Javett-UP Art Centre, 2026 - 2027 Phomolo Sello, 2025 We Didn't Choose to be Born Here book, published by PhMuseum We Didn't Choose to be Born Here book, published by PhMuseum We Didn't Choose to be Born Here book, published by PhMuseum We Didn't Choose to be Born Here book, published by PhMuseum Metaphorical Biographies, Vela Projects, 2026 Mavis, the Songbird, 2026 Broken Hearts, 2024 Insurance, 2024 Matlapana Bridge, 2024 Tsodilo Hills (The Mountain of the Gods) II, 2024 Fotodoks - festival for contemporary documentary photography, Architekturgalerie München, Munich, 2025 Under Surveillance, 2021 Daughter, Mother & Grandmother (1935- Present) II, 2020 We Didn't Choose to be Born Here (Installation View), Javett-UP Art Centre, 2026 - 2027

Latest News:

We Didn’t Choose to be Born Here, debut photobook published by PhMuseum, now available

Currently in Residence at Headlands Centre for the Arts, CA, USA
Metaphorical Biographies group exhibition at Vela Projects, Cape Town, South Africa, open 27 August until 26 September 2026 
Thero Makepe: The Histories We Inherit, Interview on Art Africa

We Didn’t Choose to be Born Here, solo exhibition at Javett Art Centre, Pretoria, South Africa, open 15 May 2026 until 13 February 2027

We're Still Here: Thero Makepe’s Visual Jazz, Contemporary And, written by Vamika Sinha

Illuminating the Shared History Between South Africa and Botswana, Aperture, written by Kwanele Sosibo
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