Sango Filita was born in Queenstown, South Africa. He graduated his B-tech degree in Fine Art at Walter Sisulu University 2014, East London. Filita recently obtained his master’s degree in visual arts from the University of South Africa (UNISA) and he is currently working on his PhD research. As a visual artist and curator, Filita specializes in painting, printmaking, drawing, mural art and sculpture, but his love is with painting. Sango has exhibited widely in various national exhibitions from when he was in East London until his current location which is Pretoria, from private to public art galleries. Filita’s artistic skills have been developing graciously over the years, leading to his proficiency in painting and the conceptualization of the various concepts he deals with in his art. Sango recently has exhibited some of his abstract and political artworks with UNISA staff and student exhibition where he focuses on the recent issues that are challenging South Africa at large. In the new artworks Sango portrays the issue social life and of Covid 19 on how it has and still affecting everyone and the country. In 2023 Filita participated in a mural art competition that was organised by BMW in East London where he won the first place from the competition. Sango is now creating new works and doing new experiments for his PhD upcoming exhibition.
