Lebohang Kganye Biography

Solo 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.