Mokgosi was born in 1981 in Francistown, Botswana. He received his BA from Williams College, Massachusetts, and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, in 2007. Thereafter, he completed his MFA under the mentorship of Mary Kelly at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2011. He was appointed Associate Professor in Painting/Printmaking at the Yale School of Art in 2019, having previously been an assistant professor at the Gallatin School, New York University.

Solo shows have taken place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, USA (2024); Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (2023); Saint Louis Art Museum (2022); The Current, Stowe, Vermont (2021); Perez Art Museum Miami (2020) Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago (2019); University of Michigan Museum of Art (2020); Hammer Museum (2019); Baltimore Museum of Art (2018); Fowler Museum, UCLA (2018); Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts (2017); Rochester Contemporary Art Center, New York (2017); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2015), as well as Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg (2016, 2019); Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (2015, 2016; 2023); Honor Fraser, Los Angeles (2014, 2018) and Gagosian, London (2020).

Notable group exhibitions include The Future is Present, the Harbinger is Home: Selections from Prospect. 6, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado (2025); Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (2024); Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, Art Institute of Chicago (2024); One History, Two Versions, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas (2024); On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine (2024); Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA (2024); When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Zeitz MOCCA, Cape Town (2022); Eclipse, 7th Athens Biennale (2021); Ubuntu, a lucid dream, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2021); Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier at Fondation Louis Vuitton (2017); The Ease of Fiction, a travelling exhibition which has shown at CAM Raleigh, North Carolina (2016); the African American Museum, Los Angeles (2016), and the Museum of the African Diaspora (2017); A story within a story…, the eighth Göteborg Biennale (2015); Meanwhile… Suddenly, and Then, the 12th Lyon Biennale (2013); Migrating Identities, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2013); and Primary Sources and The Bearden Project, Studio Museum, Harlem (both 2012).

His work is in public collections including the St Louis Art Museum, Pérez Art Museum Miami; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art for Rollins College, Winter Park, FL; the Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; and Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris.

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