Penny Siopis

Penny Siopis

Penny Siopis was born in Vryburg, Northern Cape, South Africa. She currently lives and works in Cape Town. She has an MFA (1976) and an Honorary Doctorate (2017) from Rhodes University, Grahamstown. Siopis is currently an Honorary Professor at Michaelis School of Fine...
Samson Kambalu

Samson Kambalu

Samson Kambalu was born in Malawi. He lives and works in London. Kambalu studied at the University of Malawi (BA Fine Art and Ethnomusicology, 1995-99), Nottingham Trent University (MA Fine Art, 2002-03) and Chelsea College of Art and Design (PhD, 2011 – 15)....
Jacki Job

Jacki Job

Jacki Job was born in Cape Town, South Africa, where she lives and works. She is currently a lecturer at the School of Dance and Department of Drama at the University of Cape Town (South Africa). She began dancing with Jazzart in the late 1980s. In 1994 she started...
Frances Goodman

Frances Goodman

Frances Goodman was born in Johannesburg, South Africa where she currently lives and works as a practising artist. She completed a Masters in Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College at the University of London (London, United Kingdom: 2000) and held a laureateship at the...
Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon was born in New York, where he lives and works. At the age of 22, he received a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University (1982) and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 1985. Whether through the sampling of prominent African American...