b. 1995 - Johannesburg, RSA
Seth Pimentel is an illustrator, painter and experimental visual artist who currently living and working in Johannesburg.
Pimentel focuses on pushing the boundaries of contemporary portraiture by merging painting, digital illustration and drawing into a hybrid of experimentation. Continuously developing his style and approach towards addressing themes of identity, mental illness and modern life in the digital age, he uses his practice to highlight his lived experiences in post-colonial South Africa.
Pimentel channels all of his energy and emotion into newer, bigger bodies of traditional and digital pieces and has collaborated with numerous brands and artists from South Africa and around the world such as Netflix, Converse, Redbull, SneakerLab, Jameson and Adobe.
Selected Press:
Artist Seth Pimentel Throws Out The Rule Book And Uses Emotion As A Guide (Sunday Times)
Debut Solo Exhibition: Seth Pimentel (VISI Magazine)
Embracing The Darkness: Seth Pimentel’s Journey To Artistic Freedom (Adobe Create)
Nkuli Khanyile Stirs Joburg’s African Ginger With Bombay Sapphire To Create Brushes Of Flower (Between 10and5)
The Secret of Craft (Creative Morning)
Seth Pimentel Is Overcome By The Creative Spirit (Jameson Indie Channel)
Q&A: Seth “African Ginger” Pimentel's New Basha Uhuru Mural For The Youth (Basha Uhuru)
Seth Pimentel: Exploring Dark Fantasies Through Experimental Illustrations (Bubblegum Club)
Artists We Love: African Ginger (Visi Magazine)
Illustrator Seth: “The Youth Needs To Learn To Stick To Their Guns” (SADC News)
African Ginger (African Now Magazine)
Seth Does It His Way (SneakerLab)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Sisyhus’s Smoke Break - Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA 2022 Why So Blue, Brown Boy? - Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
2021 An Ode to Catharsis - Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg & Cape Town, RSA
Selected Exhibitions & Projects
2021 Reform - The Gallery, 44 Stanley, Johannesburg, RSA
2021 From Present to Pivot - Kalashnikovv Gallery in collaboration with The Bag Factory - FNB Open City,
Oxford Parks, Johannesburg, RSA
2021 Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt - Keyes Art Mile - FNB Open City, Johannesburg, RSA
2021 The Next Movement - Kalashnikovv Gallery in collaboration with Merchantec Capital and Turbine Art Fair,
Illovo Point, Johannesburg, RSA
2021 Winter Salon 2021 - P72 Projects, Johannesburg, RSA
2021 Hello And Goodbye - Kalashnikovv Gallery, Cape Town, RSA
2020 (re)memory - BKhz, Johannesburg, RSA
2020 Captive Audience - Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
2019 Blue is the Warmest Colour - BKhz Gallery, Johannesburg & Cape Town, RSA
2019 Descent Into Chaos - Bkhz Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
2019 ZIP Art Show - Caravaglia Studio, Broadway NYC, USA
2019 arteBOTANICA – NIROX Sculpture Park, Krugersdorp, RSA
2018 Credit the Photographer with Austin Malema - Johannesburg, RSA
2018 The Kids These Days - TMRW Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
2018 Creative Conversation with Ballantine's and Kid Fonque, Johannesburg, RSA
2018 Creative Morning Talk ‘The Secret of Craft’ at VEGA, Johannesburg, RSA
2018 Absolut Vodka OSL Installation, Johannesburg, RSA
2018 ‘Dirty Clean’ SneakerLab Artist Series Exhibition - Johannesburg, RSA and Los-Angeles, USA
2018 ‘Persona’ SneakerLab Artist Series Exhibition - Johannesburg, RSA and Los-Angeles, USA
Art Fairs & Festivals
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, RSA: 2021
Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg, RSA: 2023 / 2021
FNB Art Joburg, Johannesburg, RSA: 2021 - 2019
International Public Arts Festival, Cape Town, RSA: 2019
Basha Uhuru Festival, Johannesburg, RSA: 2019
Art Basel Miami, Miami, USA: 2019