Lebohang Kganye (born 1990, Johannesburg, South Africa) received her introduction to photography at the Market Photo Workshop, in Johannesburg, in 2009 and completed the Advanced Photography Programme in 2011. She obtained a Diploma in Fine Arts from the University of Johannesburg in 2014 and is currently doing her Masters in Fine Arts at the Witwatersrand University. Notable awards include Camera Austria Award (2019), Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize (2020), Grand Prix Images Vevey (2021/22), and the Foam Paul Huf Award (2022).
Read MoreSolo exhibitions include Shall you Return Everything, but the Burden, Rautenstrauch Joest Museum, Cologne, Germany (2023); Ternary Memories of Yesterday, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark (2023); Mmoloki wa mehopolo; Breaking Bread with a Wanderer, Brundyn Arts and Culture, Cape Town (2023); Haufi Nyana? I've Come to Take you Home, FOAM, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2023); Staging Memories, Grand Prix Images Vevey 2021/22, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (2022); Leave the light when you leave for good, Georgian House Museum, Bristol Photo Festival, Bristol, UK (2022); What Are You Leaving Behind?, ROSEGALLERY, Santa Monica, CA (2022); The Stories We Tell, George Bizos Gallery, Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa (2020–2021); Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography: Lebohang Kganye, Award Ceremony, Exhibition Space Camera Austria, Graz, Austria (2019); a ppr oc he: Lebohang Kganye, Le Molière, Paris, France (2019); Mohlokomedi wa Tora, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa (2018); Tell Tale, The Photo Workshop Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2018); and Ke Lefa Laka, Market Photo Workshop Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2013) amongst others.
Recent group exhibitions include A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK (2023); Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI (2023); Trace — Formations of Likeness, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2023); T_he Struggle of Memory_, Palais Populaire, Deutsche Bank Collection, Berlin, Germany (2023); Book Spaces, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, Germany (2023); Tell Me What You Remember: Sue Williamson and Lebohang Kganye, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA (2023); The Norval Sovereign Art Prize 2023, Cape Town, South Africa, (2023); As We Rise: Photography from The Black Atlantic, Traveling Exhibition, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, Canada / Peabody Essex Museum, Salem,MA (2023); The Power of My Hands, Traveling Exhibition, Museu Nacional de História Natural, Luanda, Angola (2023); MAST Photography Grant 2023, Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy (2023);OZANGÉ, Bienal de Fotografía Africana, Malaga, Spain (2022/23); Words Create Images, 5th International Biennale of Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocc (2022/23); Motherhood, Syker Vorwerk Contemporary Art Center, Germany (2022/23); and A Feminine Lexicon, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo (2022/23) amongst others.