Master of Fine Arts Computer Graphics Design, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, USA
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Graphic Design, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom
Neo Matome-Harun is a member of the WKKF Global Fellows Network, Former Deputy Chairperson of the HRDC Creative Industries Sector Committee, Founding Committee member of the Thapong Visual Arts Centre in Gaborone and former Research Officer of the EU funded Southern African Development Community (SADC) Regional School of Art and Design Project, National Gallery of Art, Harare, Zimbabwe (1992-1994). She has worked as Assistant Curator of Art at the National Museum and Art Gallery in Gaborone where she produced graphics and curated art exhibitions (1989-1992). Neo has also served as Secretary of the UB Arts and Culture Engagement Strategy and as a member of the UB Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) Committee. Her commitment to the development of the arts and culture has resulted in her being invited to judge exhibitions locally and abroad, such as the 2011 Bank Windhoek Triennial held at the National Art Gallery of Namibia.
As a practising artist, Neo has participated in many exhibitions locally and abroad and has artworks in private and public collections. In 2020 she was one of the six women who participated in the Difficult Women exhibition at the National Art Gallery in Gaborone. She held her first solo show, Contested Identities at the Museu Nacional de Arte in Maputo, Mozambique (2010) and at the National Art Gallery in Gaborone (2011). In 2010/11 she was one of the ten winners of the Diamond Trading Company (DTC) Shining Light Awards.
Visual Arts, creative industries
Art in Botswana: The Role of Training Institutions in the Development of the Visual Arts. Paper presented at the Seminar Structuring Africa(s): Cultural Policies and their Differences and Similarities, or how to deal with Needs and Desires. Cape Town, South Africa. Organised by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) Paris, with the support of VANSA, Visual Arts Network South Africa (VANSA) and Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town. (8-10 November 2007). Publication of proceedings, titled AFRICAN CONTEMPORARY ART Critical Concerns was published in October 2011 in France (Condé-sur-Noireau)
http://www.aica-int.org/spip.php?article1240
Bridging Cultural Boundaries: A School of Art and Design for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Region. Legacies of Stone: Zimbabwe Past and Present. Volume II. Royal Museum for Central Africa: Tervuren 1997.
Visual Art in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The Argument for a Regional School of Art and Design. Report prepared by Stephen Williams, Consultant/Project Manager and Neo Matome, Research Officer. March 1994. Harare, Zimbabwe.