Tshepiso Moropa (b. 1995) is a self-taught collage artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. With an academic background in Psychology, Linguistics, and Research, her artistic practice engages deeply with African historical archives and oral histories. Moropa’s work begins in fragments: archival images, memories, folktales, and dreams, which she assembles into hand-crafted collages that feel at once ancient and futuristic, personal and collective. Working across both digital and analogue forms, she constructs visual narratives that reimagine the archive not as a fixed record but as a living and evolving space of possibility.

Moropa has received significant accolades, including the Out of Africa Award (2022), Contemporary African Photography Prize (2024) and the V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography (2025). She has garnered notable international attention, and has been included in presentations at Paris Photo, with Michael Hoppen Gallery, in From the Ground Up, Galleri Image, Denmark; and at 1-54 London with THK Gallery. Moropa has participated in the RE-Memory Virtual Residency (2022) followed by the PESP4 Art Creating Programme (2024). Moropa’s is part of collections around the world, including the Ditau Collection, Workers’ Museum Collection, and notable private collections. Moropa is currently featured in Museum Rietberg’s A Kind of Paradise in Zurich, Switzerland. This will be followed by a presentation of Moropa’s CAP Prize–winning works at the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, Switzerland.

Courtesy THK Gallery