RESIDENT

Mdikane is a visual artist who explores themes of healing and meditation within the post-apartheid Black South African community. She holds Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand (2023). Mdikane’s work challenges societal norms by representing the diversity of Black identity and seeks to empower and promote visibility.

RESIDENT

Mbolekwa is a visual artist living and practising in Johannesburg, South Africa. He acquired an Honours in Fine Arts from the University of Witwatersrand (2023). His work explores binaries, and seeks to interrogate identity, the mechanisms of colonialism, religion, and metaphysical reality.

RESIDENT

Ngcobo is a performance, drawings, and installation artist. Her work engages with the subject matters of the Black female body and how she can re-represent it outside the constraints of coloniality, tradition, culture, religion and patriarchy by challenging ways of seeing experiences connected to Black womanhood.

RESIDENT

Matuis is a Johannesburg-based artist who uses creativity and art to discover the self while interacting and negotiating with the external world. He hails from the Eastern Cape and is completing his BA in Fine Arts at the University of Witwatersrand.

INTERNATIONAL RESIDENT

Lizzie Wee is a Singaporean multidisciplinary artist, curator, designer, illustrator, art director and video editor. She has lived in many cities including Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Berlin, Boston, New York, and Singapore. She received her BFA from New York University and an MA Fine Arts from the Goldsmiths programme at LASALLE College of the Arts.

INTERNATIONAL RESIDENT

Dylan Chan is a Singapore-based artist and curator who graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts with Bachelors in Fine Arts (Hons). He was awarded the Winston Oh (Practice) Award 2018 & 2022, and nominated for the prestigious Takifuji Art Award 2021, Sovereign Art Prize 2024.

INTERNATIONAL RESIDENT

Isa Pengskul is a Thai American conceptual artist. During her undergraduate years Pengskul studied Philosophy and Studio Art at Vassar College, NY. She completed her Master of Arts in Fine Arts with distinction at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.

INTERNATIONAL RESIDENT

Baha Suleiman is a Palestinian/Jordanian documentary photographer based in Amman, Jordan. Suleiman is carrying out his second residency with BLVCK BLOCK. His work seeks to capture the stark similarities between the Palestinian diasporic experience and the black South African experience through the lens of forced dispossession. 

RESIDENT Alumni

STUDIO 1 MANAGER

Mwanza is a South African, multidisciplinary artist. He completed his BA Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2020. His practice is centred around portraiture and figurative painting.

RESIDENT Alumni

Fisher is a visual artist, curator and publisher based in Johannesburg.  She holds an Honours in Curatorship degree from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (2020) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand (2019).

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

STUDIO 2 MANAGER

Mammawezizwe Sibiya is a South African multidisciplinary artist and curator with a passion for visual storytelling and immersive experiences.

FOUNDER and CEO

FINE ARTIST

Solomzi Moleketi is a South African painter who holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from LA SALLE College of the Arts in Singapore and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.