Athi-Patra Ruga: Not your average wallflower #designindaba •

Athi-Patra Ruga (@AthiPatraRuga) was born in Umtata in 1984 and lives and works in both Johannesburg and Cape Town. Ruga was recently included in the Phaidon book Younger Than Jesus, a directory of over 500 of the world’s best artists under the age of 33. His works form part of private public and museum collections here and abroad, namely: Museion — Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano Italy; CAAC — Pigozzi Collection, The Wedge Collection, and the Iziko South African National Gallery. He is a speaker at Design Indaba 2014.