FNB Art Joburg has announced the 2025 FNB Art Prize Winner as Thato Toeba. The Prize recognises outstanding artistic talent and contribution to the contemporary art scene.
Thato Toeba was born in 1990 in Maseru, where they live. They are an artist, a lawyer and a social sciences researcher working with mixed-media photomontage and assemblage. Using collage and assemblage, they bring photos, textures and materials to tell layered stories about identity, power and history.
On their decision to select Toeba, the jury for the 2025 FNB Art Prize said: “Thato Toeba’s practice holds a quiet force. Their use of collage and assemblage is both deliberate and layered, allowing for a visual language that is conceptually clear and materially rich. There is a distinct sense of control in how they handle composition, texture and text, revealing a commitment to process as much as to meaning. What set Toeba apart was the clarity of vision, the formal maturity of the work and the considered pace of their trajectory. In the field of strong nominees, theirs emerged as the most resolved and coherent.”
