Santu Mofokeng

Santu Mofokeng was born in Soweto in 1956. He began his photography career early on as a teenager. His first exhibition was in Johannesburg in 1989. He has since exhibited throughout the world. In 1991 he won the Ernest Cole Scholarship, to study at the International Centre for Photography in New York. In 1998 he was the recipient of the Künstlerhaus Worpswede Fellowship and three years later of the DAAD Fellowship, both in Germany. In 2009 he was nominated as a Prince Claus Fund Laureate for Visual Arts.

Santu Mofokeng’s first international retrospective opened in May 2011 at the Jeu de Paume Paris and subsequently travelled to Kunsthalle Bern in the latter part of 2011 and Bergen Kunsthall and the Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg in 2012. He has also shown at the 55th International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale in the German Pavilion in 2013.