Treasure Mlima (b. 1999 - Durban, RSA) is a self-taught South African artist. Mlima’s works are composed of 2D prints, showcasing an array of imagery dealing with space and identity from an African perspective. Technically his artistic process includes the use of found images that are digitally manipulated into collages, then carved into wood and eventually painted with oil-based and acrylic inks. Mlima sees himself as a sample of a type of existence in the world that is African. As an artist he commits himself to being a cultural practitioner who has the duty to expose what is hidden.

Through his art, he both reveals the existing and suggests a different reality using neutral symbolism, neither confrontational nor compromising.approaches consciousness as a bodily experience rather than a fixed idea. His work isolates the quiet moments when the body performs, and records the strain that history and colonial structures leave on the self. Drawing on Frantz Fanon's writing on psychological displacement and the internalised white mask, he asks what it takes to name the world and to belong without the exhaustion of spectacle.

Through slow, rhythmic carving, Mlima develops a formal language that values emergence over resolution and improvisation over polish. After a career spent studying the body, he now presents it as evidence: a physical record of internalised performance and institutional conditioning.