Naledi Mo Modupi

Naledi Modupi is a Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary visual artist known for her bold, emotive portraiture that celebrates femininity, identity, and cultural pride. Her work spans painting, illustration, sculpture, ceramics, and photography, each piece telling layered stories of womanhood, memory, and heritage.

Deeply inspired by the South African women who raised her, Naledi uses line, shape, pattern, and vibrant colour to create abstract portraits that honour their strength, spirit, and beauty. Her visual style bridges tradition and modernity, with a creative practice that fluidly moves between traditional mediums like paint and chalk to digital art and sculptural ceramics.

I use portraiture to stage confidence, vulnerability, and the poetics of being seen on your own terms.