Born in Payneville township of Springs in Gauteng, he relocated early with his family to Kwa-Thema and spent his childhood with his grandmother in Ratanda.
[2] Nhlengethwa began his career in 1976[3] and later taught part-time at the Johannesburg-based Federative Union of Black Artists (FUBA).
He won the Standard Bank Young Artist award in 1994,[1] and worked as a television technician for South African Broadcasting Corporation for 13 years.
My jazz collages, with their distorted patterns, attempt to communicate all of this.Nhlengethwa collage style niche uses hard-edge cut out and cut up shapes of ready-made images from selected reproductions and juxtaposed to make new images, often combined with other media to create new forms.
[9] He has 276 works[10] at auction including: In the course of his career, Nhlengethwa had collaborated with various South African printmaking studios namely:[3]