Dumile Feni

**Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mhlaba** "**Dumile**" **Feni** (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Silimiin goli May biɛɣ'pishi ni yini dali yuuni 1942 ka daa kpi yuuni 1991) daa nyɛla South African lihigu nuchee ni baŋda zaŋ n-ti  Katlego Lhuzwayoboth, o nuchee ni tumanima nyɛla din tooi jɛndiri pɛntibu Apartheid din be South Africa. 

## Documentary
Yuuni 2010, o kundinima tumanima shɛli *Zwelidumile* nyɛla o ni daa bahi. South African filmmaker Ramadan Suleman nyɛ ŋun daa nam li.

## Maŋmaŋ biɛhigu
Feni's tuuli yuli, Zwelidumile gbunni nyɛla ninvuɣ so sokam ni mi tiŋgbani kam ni."

Feni nyɛla ŋun mali bia ŋun nyɛ paɣa ka o yuli booni Marriam Diale.

## Exhibitions

### Solo exhibitions
* 1965: Transvaal Academy, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1966: Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
* 1966: Gallery 101, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1966: Johannesburg Civic Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1966: Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
* 1966: Republic Festival Exhibition, Pretoria, South Africa
* 1966: SA Breweries Art Prize Exhibition, toured South Africa
* 1966: *Trans-Natal*, Natal Society for Arts, Durban, South Africa
* 1967: Gallery 101, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1967: Transvaal Academy, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1968: Sketches from a Private Collection, Goodman Gallery
* 1969: Grosvenor Gallery, London, United Kingdom
* 1970: Exhibition from the Collection of Desmond Fisher, Goodman Gallery
* 1970: The 51 Club Winter Art Exhibition, Goodman Gallery
* 1975: *South African Sculpture*, Goodman Gallery
* 1981: *Black Art Today*, Jabulani Standard Bank, Soweto
* 1988: La Galleria, New York, NY
* 1989: Portrait of Nelson Mandela for the Pathfinder Mural, New York, NY
* 1990: *Township Art from South Africa*, Applecrest, New York, NY
* 1991: Standard Bank National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa
* 2010: *Art on Paper*, MOMO Art Gallery, South Africa

### Group exhibitions
* 1966: *Artists of Fame and Promise*, Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1967: São Paulo Art Biennial, Brazil
* 1967: *Sculpture South Africa, 1900: 1967*, Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1969: *Contemporary African Art*, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
* 1971: Gallery 101, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1972: Gallery 101, Johannesburg, South Africa
* 1975: *African Art from South Africa*, Gallery 21, London, United Kingdom
* 1977: *Contemporary African Art in South Africa*, Rand Afrikaans University, Pretoria Art Museum, University of Orange Free State, William Hamphrey Art Gallery (University of Fort Hare)
* 1977: SANG (Cape Town Festival), Gallery 21, South Africa
* 1982: *Art towards Social Development: an Exhibition of South African Art*, National Museum and Art Gallery, Gaborone, Botswana
* 1983: United Nations Exhibition, Commemoration of Namibia Freedom Day, New York, NY
* 1987: *Unlock Apartheid's Jails, conference on children under apartheid*, with Bill Cosby and the American Committee of Africa, Hyatt Hotel, New York, NY
* 1988: *Uhuru: an Exhibition of African American Art against Apartheid*, City without Wall Gallery, Newark, NJ
* 1988: *Voices from Exile (Seven South African Artists)*, Washington, DC; Los Angeles, CA; Houston, TX; Philadelphia, PA
* 2010: MOMO Art Gallery, South Africa

## Pina
* 2003: Order of Ikhamanga in Gold, for excellence in the arts

## Selected works and publications
* Feni, Dumile, and Bruce Smith. *[http://www.johansborman.co.za/artist-biographies/feni-dumile/ Dumile: Artist in Exile] *, South Africa: Bruce Smith in association with *Art on Paper,* 2004.  

## Kundivihira

## External links
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* https://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/DUMILE.htm
* http://www.pelmama.org/DUMILE.htm