Nandipha Mntambo

Hathor

Nandipha Mntambo (b. 1982, Mbabane, Swaziland) lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. Hathor is a self-portrait of the artist as Hathor, one of the most important goddesses of ancient Egypt. Mntambo’s confrontational and alluring sculptures challenge and subvert preconceptions of Black female representation, and disrupt perceptions of attraction, repulsion, and the corporeal.

Support

Major support for the High Line Plinth is provided by Shelley Fox Aarons, Jennifer Allan Soros, Elizabeth Belfer, Suzanne Deal Booth, Fairfax Dorn, Andy and Christine Hall, Hermine Riegerl Heller, J. Tomilson Hill, The Holly Peterson Foundation, Annie Hubbard, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Donald R. Mullen, Jr., Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins, Doug Oliver, Mario J. Palumbo, Jr., Susan Scherr, Susan Viniar, and Anonymous.