DUT graduate Mlu Zondi, has won the Spier Contemporary 2010 Award at the Spier Contemporary Exhibition in Cape Town. The work of 101 artists selected from over 2 700 submissions are being showcased. The exhibition will run until 14 May at Cape Town’s City Hall and later travel to exhibition sites in Johannesburg and Durban.

As part of Zondi’s prize, he will attend the prestigious 18th Street Art Centre in California, USA, as an artist in residency for eight weeks, from December 2010.