(b. 1982, Johannesburg, South Africa) 

Teniqua Crawford is a multidisciplinary artist.  Her work explores the human condition and its ephemeral nature through the female form. Crawford’s paintings of the figure captured in natural light are an expression of our pure being and essence. Her contained, muted, fragments serve as poetic symbols of the human condition.

Crawford paints and sculpts her subject from life while drawing from her inner world. Her creative process combines observation, memory, imagination and subconscious elements. Mark making resonates with her as an attempt to capture and give form to the ephemeral. She creates a sense of stillness, silence, and solitude in her works, drawn to these qualities as a pathway to the inner self.  She has recently been creating abstracted figures in states of emergence that explore the interplay of presence and absence. 

Her exploration of the human form as landscape seeks to connect humanity to the natural world. Her connection to nature is inspired by growing up along South Africa’s wild mountain coastline. The prehistoric Middle stone-age caves in this area shaped her perspective of the nature of time and existence.    

Her works are in private collections in America, Asia, Australia, England, Europe, the Middle East and South Africa.  She received a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University and a Master of Fine Arts from Harvard University at the American Repertory Theatre, and the Moscow Art Theatre Institute [MXAT].

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 - Breasts, Major Group Exhibition during Venice Biennale ACP Palazzo Franchetti

2023 - Summer Exhibition, Everard Read, London

2021 - From Life Exhibition, Sladmore Contemporary, London