Manyaku Mashilo is a South African artist whose work spans mixed-media painting, drawing, and collage. Her practice explores themes of spiritual identity, memory, ancestry, and belonging, drawing inspiration from photographic archives to create expansive, abstract scenes. Mashilo’s works depict Black figures migrating through celestial, liminal spaces, symbolizing both spiritual and ancestral journeys. Using family photos and historical imagery, Mashilo blends personal and collective memory to construct “cosmological landscapes” that imagine new futures and renegotiate identity and representation.

Her 2023 solo exhibition “An Order of Being” was held at Southern Guild Cape Town, followed by “The Laying of Hands” at Southern Guild Los Angeles in 2025—her U.S. debut. Mashilo has exhibited at Gagosian (London), Kunsthal KAdE (Netherlands), MoAD (San Francisco), Iziko South African National Gallery (Cape Town), and the Stellenbosch Triennale. Her work is held in prominent collections such as the White Rabbit Gallery, Hort Family Collection, Pizutti Collection, and others.