b. 1995, Soweto, South Africa Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa Terence Maluleke is a Johannesburg-based painter and digital artist whose work draws inspiration from the township community he grew up in. Working in a predominantly figurative mode, he creates stylised portraits and still-lifes that explore contemporary Black urban experience. Foregoing the specificity of individualistic portraiture, he embraces the multiplicity of pan-African Black identities in his art. Born in Soweto in 1995, Maluleke is a self-taught artist whose oeuvre springs from a deep engagement with and love for his township community. He works with a strong orientation towards allegorical storytelling using graphic line, geometric shape, flattened perspective, and pattern. Maluleke is an accomplished visual developer who has worked with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Sony Pictures Animation, Netflix, and Triggerfish. In 2022, he co-founded Kasi Sketchbook, a non-profit project that offers drawing clubs to children and young adults in Johannesburg’s townships.