Meleko Mokgosi is an artist, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art, and the co-founder and director of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program. His large-scale, figurative, and often text-based works engage history painting and cinematic tropes to investigate historiography, democracy, and liberation movements across Africa and the diaspora. 

Mokgosi received his BA from Williams College in 2007 and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program that same year. He received his MFA from the Interdisciplinary Studio Program at UCLA in 2011, and was an artist-in-residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem from 2011 through 2012. His work has been exhibited internationally, with exhibitions at the St. Louis Art Museum, MO; Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Botswana National Museum, Gaborone, Botswana; The Fowler Museum at UCLA, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, GA; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; among many others. His work is included in public collections such as Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; and Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France.