Thina Dube (b. 1993) is a South African artist and educator whose practice explores identity, memory, language, and the lasting psychological effects of apartheid. Trained as a printmaker at the University of Johannesburg, Dube works across monotype, painting, embossing, and handmade paper.

Silhouetted figures are central to his visual language. Their deliberately obscured identities invite viewers to project their own experiences and assumptions onto the image, while reflecting the fluid way identity is constructed by language, society, and memory. Domestic motifs such as paper doilies evoke family histories and nostalgia, but also carry associations with colonial influence and inherited cultural structures.

Dube has exhibited internationally at AKAA Paris, Cologne Fine Art & Design, ARCO Lisboa, and 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London. His solo exhibitions include The Last Harvest at the Stellenbosch Museum and Yesterday Today & Tomorrow at Guns & Rain, both in 2018. His work was also included in Running: The New Contemporary at Qingdao Art Museum, China, in 2021.
"The work unpacks the idea of identity and the colonial past that is part of the South African identity. The oval portraits look at the Victoria influence and the rule of Queen Victoria. The work looks at how a lot of households during apartheid had a lot of men working in mines, farms, and cities, and women looked after the children in the townships or rural areas. The work also aims to glorify the role that women played at home as well as honoring the women’s march that took place in 1956, 9 August in Pretoria." - Thina Dube, July 2021.