Hasan and Husain Essop
Hasan and Husain Essop are twin brothers (born 1985, Cape Town) and currently, live and work in Cape Town. They graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Art, majoring in Printmaking and Photography respectively, and a Postgraduate diploma in Art in 2009. Recipients of the 2014 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art, they exhibited their collaborative photographic series Unrest at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Standard Bank Gallery, National Arts Festival and Iziko Museum, among other venues in South Africa.
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Recipients of the 2014 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art, they exhibited their collaborative photographic series Unrest at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Standard Bank Gallery, National Arts Festival and Iziko Museum, among other venues in South Africa. Recent exhibitions include The Repenters, presented at Eclectica Contemporary, Cape Town and part of Eclectica Contemporary’s booth in the GIF Section at FNB Art Joburg 2024. Notable exhibitions include Remembrance at Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (2012), Indelible Marks at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai (2011), Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2011) and Peek-a-boo Current South Africa at Helsinki Art Museum, Finland (2011). Their works are held in several private and public collections such as the Deutsche Bank Collection, Spier Art Collection, Durban Art Gallery and Iziko South African National Gallery.
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HASAN AND HUSAIN ESSOP
Refugees, 2016
Pigment inks on cotton rag paper
90.5 x 130 x 3.5cm

HASAN AND HUSAIN ESSOP
Drone Strike, 2017
Pigment inks on cotton rag paper
90.5 x 130 x 3.5 cm

HASAN AND HUSAIN ESSOP
Cyber Recruit, 2020
Pigment inks on cotton rag paper
90.5 x 130 x 3.5 cm

HASAN AND HUSAIN ESSOP
Usual Suspects, 2020
Pigment inks on cotton rag paper
90.5 x 130 x 3.5 cm