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Boubacar Touré Mandémory, Couleurs de Pêche, from the series Capitales Africaines, 2000–2005

About the Artists

DOA ALY Born in Cairo, 1976; Lives and works in Cairo; Education: BFA, Fine Arts Academy, Cairo (2001) Solo Exhibitions: Grey Matter, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2004); Puppet Fashion Show, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2003); Pixels Series, Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo (2002) Group Exhibitions: Body, Falaky Gallery, American University in Cairo (2003); Al Nitaq Festival of Contemporary Art, Cairo (2001); Al Nitaq Festival of Contemporary Art, Cairo (1999) Awards and Residencies: IAAB: International Exchange and Studio Program, Basel (2005); A Single Country Project: Arts Exchange Program, United States (2004); Residency, Open Studio Project, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2003)

OLADÉLÉ AJIBOYÉ BAMGBOYÉ Born in Odo-Eku, Nigeria, 1963; Lives and works in London; Education: BSc, Chemical and Process Engineering, Strathclyde University, Glasgow (1985); MA, Media Fine Art Theory and Practice, Slade College of Fine Art, London (1998); Solo Exhibitions: Thomas Erben Gallery, New York (2002); Project Gallery, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; Thomas Erben Gallery, New York; Helsinki City Art Museum (2000); Artpace, San Antonio, Texas (1999) Group Exhibitions: Museum for African Art, New York; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Edinburgh City Art Centre, Scotland (2003); Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; P.S.1, New York; International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Pacifico, Yokohama (2001); Tate Britain, London; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands (2000); Kassel, Germany (1997); Guggenheim Museum, New York (1996); Awards and Residencies: Artist-in-Residence, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2001); Resident Research Professor, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan; Nominated for the Vincent van Gogh Bi-Annual Award for Contemporary Art in Europe (2000); New Works 99:3, Studio Residency Program, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas (1999) Bibliography: Byvanck, Valentin, and Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé. “Oladélé A. Bamgboyé.” In Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, edited by Laurie Ann Farrell, pp. 62-73. New York: Museum for African Art, 2003. Obrist, Hans-Ulrich, and Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé. “Interview with Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé.” Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, no. 13-14 (Spring-Summer 2001), pp. 86-91. Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé: Writings on Technology and Culture. Rotterdam: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2000.

YTO BARRADA Born in Paris, 1971; Lives and works in Paris and Tangier; Education: Sorbonne, Paris and the International Center of Photography, New York Solo Exhibitions: Yto Barrada, Jeu de Paume-Site Sully, Paris (2006); Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; Centre de la Photographie, Geneva; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK (2004); Gran royal turismo, Galerie Polaris, Paris (2003) Group Exhbitions: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2006, The Photographers' Gallery, London (2006); 7th Festival Cultures du Maghreb, Caen, France; Hors circuits, Lille, France (2005); Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Villa Medici, Rome; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (2004); Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, The Netherlands; International Center of Photography, New York (2003) Awards: The Photographers' Gallery, London (2006) Bibliography: Barrada, Yto. A Life Full of Holes: The Strait Project. London: Autograph ABP, 2005. Masson, Anaïs, Yto Barrada, and Maxence Rifflet. Fais un fils et jette-le à la mer: Marseille/Tanger. Paris: Éditions Jean-Michel Place, 2004.

LUIS BASTO Born in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa (now Maputo, Mozambique), 1969; Lives and works in Maputo, Mozambique; Group Exhibitions: Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris (2004) 8th Bienal de la Habana, Havana; Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 5th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali (2003); Photoforum PasquArt, Seevorstadt, Switzerland; Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano; Schule für Gestaltung, Basel; Galeria da Associação Moçambicana de Fotografia (AMF), Maputo; continuing at other venues Photofesta, Associação Moçambicana de Fotografia (AMF), Maputo (2002); Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona; Iwalewa-Haus, Afrikazentrum der Universität Bayreuth, Germany; 4th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali (2001); National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare (2000); South African National Gallery, Cape Town Bibliography: Luis Basto: Photographe. Montreuil: Éditions de l'Oeil, 2004.

ZOHRA BENSEMRA Born in Algiers, 1968; Lives in Algiers and works internationally; Solo Exhibitions: Algérie-Algerien, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin/Bonn (2002); Fnac, Brussels (1998) Group Exhibitions, 6th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali (2005); Kommunale Galerie im Leinwandhaus and Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt (2004); Galerie de la Fnac Montparnasse, Paris; Festival International du Photojournalisme, Perpignan, France (2003); Perpignan, France (1997) Bibliography: Zohra Bensemra: Algérie. La vie quotidienne des années 1992-2002. Berlin/Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2002.

ZARINA BHIMJI Born in Mbarara, Uganda, 1963; Lives and works in London; Education: BA, Fine Art, Goldsmiths' College, London (1986); Leicester Polytechnic, Leicester, England (1983) Solo Exhibitions: Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden; Institute of International Visual Arts, London (2004); Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut; Tate Britain, London (2003); Talwar Gallery, New York (2001) Group Exhibitions: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England (2005); The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (2004); 50th Venice Biennale; 8th International Istanbul Biennial (2003) Kassel, Germany (2002); Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; P.S.1, New York (2001); Guggenheim Museum, New York (1996) Awards and Residencies: Infinity Award for Art, International Center of Photography, New York (2003); Artist-in-Residence, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Berlin (2002); Sciart, Research Award for Artist/Scientist Collaboration, UK (2001); Artist-in-Residence, National Institute for Medical Research, London (2000) Bibliography: Bhimji, Zarina. “Imaging the Body: The Work of Zarina Bhimji.” Lancet 355 (April 15, 2000), p. 1377. Dewan, Deepali. “Tender Metaphor: The Art of Zarina Bhimji.” In Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes, edited by Gilane Tawadros and Sarah Campbell, pp. 131-37. London: Institute of International Visual Arts, 2003. Zarina Bhimji. Cambridge: Kettle's Yard, 1995.

MOHAMED CAMARA Born in Bamako, Mali, 1985; Lives and works in Paris and Bamako; Solo Exhibitions: Château du Grand Jardin, ORCCA, Joinville, France (2005) Tate Modern, London (2004); Africalia 2003, Brussels (2003); Galerie Pierre Brullé, Paris; Galerie Chab, Bamako, Mali (2002) Group Exhibitions: Critic's Choice, FACT, Liverpool (2005) Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona; Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France (2004) MuDAC-Musée de Design et d'Arts Appliqués Contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland; 5th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali; Barcelona; Kornhausforum, Bern; Salon International du Livre, Geneva (2003). Bibliography: Mohamed Camara, photographe. Text by Colette Fellous. Montreuil: Éditions de l'Oeil, 2002.

ALI CHRAÏBI Born in Marrakech, Morocco, 1965; Lives and works in Marrakech; Solo Exhibitions: Dries & Driss, Katja & Kadija, Centre Culturel de l'Agdal, Rabat, Morocco (with Bernice Siewe) (2005); Institut Français de Rabat, Morocco; Real Sociedad Fotográfica, Zaragoza, Spain (2003) Group Exhibitions: Fundación Cristóbal Gabarrón, Valladolid, Spain; Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània, Barcelona; kbp (Klein Blue Productions), Brooklyn, New York; 12th Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, The Netherlands (2005); Fundación Antonio Pérez, Cuenca, Spain (2004); Villa des Arts, Casablanca (2003); Dak'Art 2002: Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar; European Parliament, Brussels (2002); Mémoires intimes d'un nouveau millenaire, 4th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali (2001) Awards:“Au Sud du Sud” prize, Centre Culturel SAREV, Marseille, France (2002); Award from the Salon National d'Art Photographique, Association Marocaine d'Art Photographique (AMAP), Meknès, Morocco (1999) Bibliography: Suites marocaines: La jeune création au Maroc. Paris: Revue Noire, 1999.

ALLAN DESOUZA Born in Nairobi, 1958; Lives and works in Los Angeles; Education: MFA, Photography, University of California, Los Angeles (1997); Critical Studies, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York (1994); BA (Hons), Fine Art, Bath Academy of Art, England (1983); Foundation Art, Goldsmiths' College, London (1977) Solo Exhibitions: Talwar Gallery, New York (2005); The Lost Pictures, Pomona College Museum of Art, California (2004); Talwar Gallery, New York (2003); collaboration with Yung Soon Min, Mezzanine Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Oboro Gallery, Montreal (2002) Group Exhibitions: 6th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali; Museum for African Art, New York (2005); Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Philadelphia Museum of Art; William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut (2004); Museum for African Art, New York; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Edinburgh City Art Centre, Scotland (2003) Awards, Residencies, and Professional Experience: Artist in Residence, University of Southern Maine, Portland; Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2005); Faculty, Vermont College, Montpelier (2005); Commission, Museum for African Art, New York (2003); Lecturer, Photography Department, California Institute of the Arts; Visiting Artist, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (2002); Artist in Residence, Art in General, New York; Photography Residency, Light Work, Syracuse, New York; Individual Artist's Award, Durfee Foundation, Los Angeles (2001); Lecturer, Studio Art Department, University of California, Irvine (2003) Bibliography: Allan deSouza: The Lost Pictures. New York: Talwar Gallery, 2005.

DEPTH OF FIELD (DOF) Collective formed in Lagos in 2001; Kelechi Amadi-Obi (born in Lagos, 1969); Uchechukwa James-Iroha (born in Enugu, Nigeria, 1972); Toyosi Zaynab Odunsi (born in Lagos, 1975); Amaize Ojeikere (born in Lagos, 1966); Emeka Okereke (born in Aba, Nigeria, 1980); Toyin Sokefun-Bello (born in Lagos, 1978) Education: Kelechi Amadi-Obi BL Nigerian Law School, Lagos (1993) LLB, Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus (1992);Uchechukwa James-Iroha BA, Visual Arts, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria (1995); Toyosi Zaynab Odunsi BA, Visual Communications, Westminster University, UK; Amaize OjeikereHND, Business Administration and Management; Emeka Okereke Alliance Française, Lagos (2004); Government College Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria (1999); Toyin Sokefun-Bello BSc, University of Lagos (1996-99) Solo Exhibitions: Berlin Photography Festival, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin South London Gallery; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (2005);ifa-Galerie, Berlin and Stuttgart (2004) Bibliography: STADTanSICHTen. Geislingen/Steige: C. Maurer, 2004.

ANDREW DOSUNMU Born in London, mid-1960s; Lives and works in New York; Group Exhibitions: Kunst-Werke, Berlin (2004);GAS Gigantic Artspace, New York (2003) African Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, and the Brooklyn Museum (2000) FESPACO Pan-African Film Festival, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Los Angeles Independent Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival (1999) Awards and Residencies: Sundance Screenwriters Lab; Sundance Filmmakers Lab (2005); Laurent Award for Best Documentary Film, for Hot Irons, FESPACO Pan-African Film Festival, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Reel Film Video Award, Toronto International Film Festival (1999)

HALA ELKOUSSY Born in Cairo, 1974; Lives and works in Cairo and Amsterdam; Education: MA, Image and Communication, Goldsmiths' College, London (2002); BA, Business Administration and Economics, American University in Cairo (1996) Solo Exhibitions: Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2005); Khalil Sakakini Art Centre, Ramallah, Palestine; Aarau, Switzerland (2003) Group Exhibitions: Sammlung Essl-Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg, Austria; Castello dei Ruffo, Scilla, Italy; 9th International Istanbul Biennial (2005); Bamako 03: Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona Dak'Art 2004: The Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar Cairo; 11th Noorderlicht Photofestival, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (2004); PhotoCairo 2, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo; Bamako, Mali; Kornhausforum, Bern (2003) Al Nitaq Festival of Contemporary Art, Cairo (2001) Residencies: Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (2006) Founding member of the Center for the Contemporary Image, Cairo (2004); Artists in Residence Programme, Aarau, Switzerland; Open Studios, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2003)

THEO ESHETU Born in London, 1958; Lives and works in Rome; Education: Degree in Communication Design, North East London Polytechnic (1981) Solo Exhibitions: BAMcinématek, Brooklyn (2004); Museo Laboratorio d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome; African Film Festival and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York (2003); 58th Venice Film Festival (2002); Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (1999) Group Exhibitions: Brooklyn Institute of Contemporary Art; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (2005); Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy (2004); African Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, and the Brooklyn Museum INPUT 2000, Halifax, Canada; Chiesa di San Giorgio, Bologna (2000);Golem Video Festival, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin Sithengi, Cape Town (1999) Awards, Residencies, and Professional Experience: Faculty, Accademia dell'Immagine, L'Aquila, Italy (2003) Best Biographical Documentary for Dialogue with Yves Klein, Asolo Art Film Festival Fellowship, Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbertide, Italy (2002); Faculty, Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Italy (2000) Award of Merit, African Film Festival of Verona; Second Prize, International African Film Festival, Milan; Prix du Conseil de l'Europe, VideoArt Festival, Locarno (1999).

MAMADOU GOMIS Born in Senegal, 1976; Lives and works in Dakar; Mamadou Gomis has worked for over fourteen years as a photojournalist in Senegal for international agencies such as Agence France-Presse, Panapress, and Reuters. He is currently the director of photography services for the Dakar-based daily Le Journal. In August 2004, that newly launched newspaper commissioned Gomis to follow in Boubacar Touré Mandémory's footsteps by publishing one photograph in the paper on every day except Sunday. Gomis's pictures appear on page 13 under the heading “Arrét sur image...” (“Pause on the image…”) and show a snapshot of life from somewhere in Senegal's capital. The photographs are always printed with a caption written by the photographer himself. Whether of swimmers stretching before a race, performers of a ritual dance, women digging through the trash, men reading the Qur'an during the holy month of Ramadan, or people cooking and eating a monkey, the photographs have an unpretentious yet striking aesthetic that makes them accessible to local readers. Limited to one image per day—but potentially limitless in the length of the project—Gomis's quotidian enterprise captures not only the vibrancy and difficulty of life in Dakar, but also reflects the city back to its inhabitants in its moments of ritual, celebration, excitement, desperation, routine, and quietude.

KAY HASSAN Born in Johannesburg, 1956; Lives and works in Johannesburg; Education: Guest student, Schule für Gestaltung, Basel (1989); Evangelical Lutheran Art and Craft Centre, Rorke's Drift, South Africa (1978) Solo Exhibitions:Gallery Momo, Johannesburg; Kay Hassan, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (2003); Kay Hassan, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Haus Huth, Berlin; Pretoria Art Museum; South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Durban Art Gallery, South Africa (2000) Group Exhibition: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2005); Johannesburg Art Gallery; Museum Bochum, Germany (2004); Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich (2003);Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Museum Africa, Johannesburg (2002) The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; P.S.1, New York (2001); Dak'Art 2000: Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar (2000) Awards, Residencies, and Professional Experience: Recipient of first DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Contemporary Art (2000); Faculty, Academy of the Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA), Johannesburg (1993); Scholarship to study printmaking with S. W. Hayter at Studio 17, Paris (awarded by the French government) (1988) Bibliography: Bester, Rory. “Kay Hassan: Borders and Borderlands.” Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, no. 10 (Spring–Summer 1999), pp. 18–23. Kay Hassan. Bonn: DaimlerChrysler AG, 2000. Kay Hassan: Kunsthalle Bern, 21.3–27.4.2003. Bern: Kunsthalle, 2003. Meerali, Shaheen. “Cape of Longing: South Africa and Kay Hassan.” Third Text, no. 55 (Summer 2001), pp. 85-92.

ROMUALD HAZOUMÉ Born in Porto Novo, Benin, 1962; Lives and works in Porto Novo; Solo Exhibitions: Romuald Hazoumé, Fondation Zinsou, Cotonou, Benin (2006); Romuald Hazoumé: ARTicle 14-débrouilles-toi, toi-même, October Gallery, London; Romuald Hazoumé: La Bouche du Roi, The Menil Collection, Houston (2005) Romuald Hazoumé, Centre Culturel Français, Turin (2002); Romuald Hazoumé, Art & Public, Geneva (2000); Romuald Hazoumé, Vor-Sicht, Dany Keller Galerie, Munich; Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany; The Project, New York (1999) Group Exhibitions: Museum of Fine Art, Houston; The Grimaldi Forum, Monaco (2005); Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2004); Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Nederlands Foto Institut, Rotterdam (2001) Dany Keller Galerie, Munich; 5th Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina (2000) Bibliography: Romuald Hazoumé. Cotonou: Fondation Zinsou, 2006. Romuald Hazoumé: La Bouche du Roi. Houston: Menil Collection, 2005. Volkwein, Peter. Romuald Hazoumé “Vor-Sicht.” Ingolstadt: Städtische Galerien, 1999.

MOSHEKWA LANGA Born in Bakenberg, South Africa, 1975; Lives and works in Amsterdam; Education: Participated in the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (1998). Solo Exhibitions:Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (2005); South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2002);Geneva; The Renaissance Society, Chicago (1999) Group Exhibitions: Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2004) New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; 50th Venice Biennale; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; Purnell Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; Blaffer Gallery, Art Museum of the University of Houston; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; other venues; Museum for African Art, New York; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Edinburgh City Art Centre, Scotland (2003) Awards: First Prize, FNB Vita Art Prize (2001) Bibliography: Langa, Moshekwa, and Kobena Mercer. “Moshekwa Langa: In Conversation.” In Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, edited by Laurie Ann Farrell, pp. 93–113. New York: Museum for African Art, 2003. Moshekwa Langa. Chicago: Renaissance Society; Geneva: Centre d'Art Contemporain, 2002. Walker, Hamza. “The Global Village Revisited.” In Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes, edited by Gilane Tawadros and Sarah Campbell, pp. 205–17. London: Institute of International Visual Arts, 2003.

MAHA MAAMOUN Born in Cairo, 1972; Lives and works in Cairo; Education: MA, Middle Eastern History, Arabic Studies Department, American University in Cairo (2001); BA, Economics, American University in Cairo (1993) Solo Exhibitions: Retake, Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, England (2004) Group Exhibitions: Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (2006); Dak'Art 2004: Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar; collaborative project between Egyptian and Swiss artists, Cairo; Musei di Porta Romana/Galleria Arteutopia, Milan; 11th Noorderlicht Photofestival, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (2004); commission for public transport buses, Cairo PhotoCairo 2, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo; 5th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali; Kornhausforum, Bern (2003) 4th Nile Salon for Photography, Palace of Arts, Cairo Opera House (2002) Awards and Residencies: Dak'Art Biennial jury award, Prix du Centre Culturel SAREV, Marseille Residency, Visiting Arts/Brighton International Fellowship, Brighton, England (2004)

BOUBACAR TOURÉ MANDÉMORY Born in Dakar, 1956; Lives and works in Dakar; Solo Exhibitions: Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris (2002) Group Exhibitions: Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa; Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2003); Musei di Porta Romana, Milan; Photofesta 2002, Associação Moçambicana de Fotografia (AMF), Maputo, Mozambique (2002); Kunsthalle, Vienna; 4th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali; 11th Aubenades de la Photographie, Aubenas, France Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Palais de l'Archevêché, Arles, France (2001);Mois de la Photo, Dakar (2000); 19th Festival des Trois Continents, Nantes, France (1997); Rencontres du Cinéma du Réel, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1996) Bibliography: “B. T. Mandémory Interviewed by Gerald Matt: 'I Do Not Like the Cinema'” In ¡Flash Afrique! Photography from West Africa, edited by Thomas Miessgang and Barbara Schröder, pp. 78–80. Vienna: Kunsthalle, 2001. Kouoh, Koyo. “Frozen Mobility: A Photographer in Dialogue with His Environment.” In ¡Flash Afrique! Photography from West Africa, edited by Thomas Miessgang and Barbara Schröder, pp. 37–40. Vienna: Kunsthalle, 2001.

ZWELETHU MTHETHWA Born in Durban, South Africa, 1960; Lives and works in Cape Town; Education: MFA, Imaging Art, Rochester Institute of Technology (1989) Solo Exhibitions: Ticket to the Other Side, Galerie Hengevoss-Dürkop; Hamburg, Women in Private Spaces, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (2005); Lines of Negotiation, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (2004); Interior Portraits: Zwelethu Mthethwa Photographs, Cleveland Museum of Art (2003); Staging, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri (2002) Group Exhibitions: Click, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg; The Experience of Art, 51st Venice Biennale; Ipermercati dell'arte: Il consumo contestato / Art Hypermarkets: Contesting Consumerism, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena; New Work/New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Significant Works Within Reach, Schneider Gallery, Chicago; The Whole World Is Rotten: Free Radicals and the Gold Coast Slave Castles of Paa Joe, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (2005); Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; African Photography, 26th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo; Made in Africa Fotografia 2004, Musei di Porta Romana/Galleria Arteutopia, Milan (2004); The African Exile Museum, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich; Rites sacrés, rites profanes, 5th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali; Kornhausforum, Bern; Strangers, First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York (2003); The Gift: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario (2002); Africas: The Artist and the City, Centre de Cultura Contemporània, BarcelonaThe Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; P.S.1, New York (2001); Fun Five Fun Story, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2000) Awards, Residencies, and Professional Experience: Research Associate, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (2000); Nominee, FNB Vita Art Prize, South Africa (1999); Lecturer in Photography and Drawing, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (1994-99); Bertrams VO Art for Africa Award, South Africa; City of Abidjan Prize, Abidjan Biennale, Ivory Coast (1993) Bibliography: Dhlomo, Bongi. “Zwelethu Mthethwa Talks about His Photographs.” In Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa, edited by Frank Herreman, pp. 66-75. New York: Museum for African Art, 1999; Godby, Michael. “The Dreams of Color: Zwelethu Mthethwa's Portraits.” Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, no. 10 (Spring–Summer 1999), pp. 46–49. Zwelethu Mthethwa. Texts by Octavio Zaya, Michael Godby, and Teresa Macri. Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1999.

JAMES MURIUKI Born in Kenya, 1977; Lives and works in Nairobi; Education: BA, Design, University of Nairobi (2001);Group Exhibitions: 1st Indian Ocean Photography Biennial, Alliance Française, Madagascar (2005); KENYAart, Brooklyn Public Library (2004)

LAMIA NAJI Born in Casablanca, 1966; Lives and works in Casablanca; Solo Exhibitions: Couleurs Primaires, Galería Rafael Pérez Hernando, Madrid (2005); I Love Cats, Institut Français de Casablanca, Rabat, Fez, and Meknès, Morocco (2001) Group Exhibitions: Interruptus, La Boca Espacio de Cultura, Madrid (2005); IES Luis de Góngora. Exposición retrospectiva 1992-1996, Festival Sensexperiment, Córdoba, Spain (2003); Buen Rotllo, MACBA, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Barcelona; Made in Africa Fotografia 2002, Spacio Oberdan, Milan (2002); Mémoires intimes d'un nouveau millenaire, 4th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali (2001); Artistes de la Casa de Velázquez, Institut Français de Casablanca; Nuits urbaines, Institut Français de Marrakech, Morocco (2000); Casa Velázquez, Madrid Maroc: Médina, Médinas, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France Paris-Casa: Suites marocaines, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris (1999); Casablanca, Fragments d'imaginaire, Institut Français de Casablanca (1997); In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present, Guggenheim Museum, New York (1996) Bibliography: Voyage intentionnel = Overcoming Tourism: Hakim Bey, Lamia Naji, Hassan Massoudy. Carcassonne, France: Musée Lilim, 1994.

OTOBONG NKANGA Born in Kano, Nigeria, 1974; Lives and works in Paris and Amsterdam; Education: DasArts, Advanced Research in Theatre and Dance Studies, Amsterdam (2005-present); École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1995-2001); Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria (1992-94) Solo Exhibitions: Fokus 2, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany (with Jens Haaning); On Fragile Grounds, objectif_exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium (2004) Group Exhibitions: Belonging, Sharjah International Biennial 7, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates North/South Lab, Tanzquartier, Vienna (2005); Africa Remix:Contemporary Art of a Continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo African Photography, 26th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo Do You Believe in Reality?, Taipei Biennial, Taiwan; Epifyten: De Klassieke hortus als voerdingbodem voor hedendaagse kunst, Hortus Botanicus, AmsterdamFlash Right, Turn Left Artwalk, Amsterdam Flying Circus Project 04, TheatreWorks, Singapore (2004); El arte con la vida, 8th Bienal de la Habana, Havana (2003); The Classical Eye and Beyond, FotoFest 2002, Project Row Houses, Houston Dessins XXL, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France (2002); Mémoires intimes d'un nouveau millenaire, 4th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali (2001) Awards and Residencies: DasArts, Trustfund Stichting/Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science (2005); Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs/DCO/IC Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science (2003); Ministère des Affaires Étrangères (AFAA) and Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (DAP), France Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science (2002); Residency Program, Houilles, France (2000) Bibliography: Smokescreen: Otobong Nkanga. Neuenkirchen: Kunstverein Springhornhof, 2004.

OMAR D. (DAOUD) Born in Annaba, Algeria, 1951; Lives and works in Algiers and Paris; Solo Exhibitions: Algérie de touts les silences, Fnac, Paris; traveled to Madrid, Lisbon, Ghent, Bamako, and Algiers (1999) Group Exhibitions: Paris Photo 2005, Musée du Louvre, Paris; T'saouar: Photographes du Maghreb, Château de Sainte-Suzanne, France (2005); Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World, 11th Noorderlicht Photofestival, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (2004); Algérie portraits, Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne, France; Théâtre du Muselet, Chalon en Champagne, France (2003); En direct de Bamako: Une sélection des 4e Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine, Fnac, Paris Gens de Berbérie, Festival International de Biarritz, Terres d'Images Grâce, Biarritz, France (2002); Enfants de Bagdad, exil & création, Grasse, France; Mémoires intimes d'un nouveau millenaire, 4th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali (2001) Bibliography: L'Algérie antique: De Massinissa à saint Augustin. Text by Serge Lancel. Photographs by Omar Daoud, Pierre Salama, and Cornelis Van Voorthuizen. Paris: Mengès, 2003. Algérie portraits. Paris: Éditions Éric Koehler, 2003. Enfants de Bagdad. Paris: Éditions Miroirs de l'Oeil, 2001. Mémoires de disparus. London: Autograph Londres, 2005.

JO RACTLIFFE Born in Cape Town, 1961; Lives and works in Johannesburg; Education: MFA, University of Cape Town (1988); BA, Fine Art, University of Cape Town (1985); Diploma in Fine Art, Ruth Prowse School of Art, Cape Town (1982) Solo Exhibitions: Jo Ractliffe: Selected Colour Works 1999-2005, Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art, Johannesburg (2005); Jo Ractliffe: Selected Works 1982-1999, Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art, Johannesburg (2004); Snow White, École Cantonale d'Art du Valais, Sierre, Switzerland (2002); End of Time, Ibis Art Gallery, Nieu-Bethesda, South Africa; Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, Cape Town (1999); Guess Who Loves You, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (1997) Group Exhibitions: Prepossession, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney; Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast; 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town; Unsettled: 8 South African Photographers, The Regional Museum, Kristianstad, Sweden; Reykjavik Museum of Photography; Durban Art Gallery, South Africa; Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen (2005); A Decade of Democracy: South African Art 1994-2004, South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Mine(d)fields, Stadtgalerie, Bern (2004); Coexistence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts (2003); Iconografias metropolitanas: Cidades, 25th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo (2002) Awards and Professional Experience: Finalist, DaimlerChrysler Creative Photography Award (2003); Nominee, FNB Vita Art Prize, South Africa (1999); Faculty, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1991-present) Bibliography: Atkinson, Brenda. Jo Ractliffe: Artist's Book [taxi series 001]. Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing, 2000. Ractliffe, Jo, and Brenda Atkinson. Jo Ractliffe: End of Time. Cape Town: Mark Coetzee Fine Art Cabinet, 1999. Ractliffe, Jo, and Terry Kurgan, eds. Johannesburg Circa Now: Photography and the City. Johannesburg, 2005. Ractliffe, Jo, and Warren Siebrits. Jo Ractliffe: Selected Works 1982–1999. Johannesburg: Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art, 2004.

TRACEY ROSE Born in Durban, South Africa, 1974; Lives and works in Johannesburg; Education: The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, Cape Town (2004); BA, Fine Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1996) Solo Exhibitions: Lucie's Fur, Version 1:1:1, The Project, New York; The Thieving Fuck and the Intagalactic Lay, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (2004); Ciao Bella, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg; Gallery in the Round, Grahamstown, South Africa; TKO, Yvon Lambert Le Studio, Paris; The Project, New York (2002); Tracey Rose / Uri Tzaig, La Panadería, Mexico City (2001) Group Exhibitions: 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town (2005); Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Camoufleurs, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany;A Decade of Democracy: South African Art 1994-2004, South African National Gallery, Cape Town; How Can You Resist?, L. A. Freewaves, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles;Negotiated Identities: Black Bodies, Johannesburg Art Gallery; Seeds and Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2004); The African Exile Museum, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich; The Squared Circle: Boxing in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Terror Chic, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich (2003); Africaine, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2002);in the meantime . . . , De Appel, Amsterdam (2001) Residencies: Africa 05 Residency, October Gallery, London (2005); Hollywood Hills House Residency, Los Angeles (2004); Fresh Residency, South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2001) Bibliography: Coombes, Annie E. History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Jones, Kellie. “Tracey Rose: Post-Apartheid Playground.” In Fresh: 7 Young South African Artists at the South African National Gallery. Cape Town: SANG, 2003.

FATOU KANDÉ SENGHOR Born in Dakar, 1971; Lives and works in Dakar; Group Exhibitions: Bamako V, Continuação, FotoRio 2005, Centro Cultural Justiça Federal, Rio de Janeiro; The Sneeze, Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens (2005); Dak'Art 2004: The Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar (2004) Residencies: Residency, Visual Arts, Banff Center, Alberta, Canada, on the theme of “Intranation” (2004) Bibliography: Kandé Senghor, Fatou. “On the Predicament of the Sign: The Modern African Woman's Claim to Locality.” Public Culture 12, no. 1 (Winter 2000), pp. 205–6.

RANDA SHAATH Born in Philadelphia, 1963; Lives and works in Cairo; Education: MA, Visual Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1987); BA, American University in Cairo (1985) Solo Exhibitions: Staying or Leaving / Ostati ili oti?i, Umjetni?ki Paviljon, Zagreb, Croatia; Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz (2004); Being There, Forum on Cultural Practices in the Region, Beirut; The Spice Route Islands of Cairo, ifa-Gallery, Stuttgart (2002); Views (Rooftops), Al-Hanager Gallery, Cairo; Museum of Fine Arts, Alexandria, Egypt (1995) Group Exhibitions: Labyrinth Trap, DOK für Moderne Kunst, St. Pölten, Austria (2005); Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World, 11th Noorderlicht Photofestival, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands; Aperture Foundation, New York; FotoFest at Vine Street Studios, Houston (2004); Contemporary Arab Representations: Cairo, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; Venice Biennale; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden (2003); Fragments, PhotoCairo, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2002); Borders and Beyond, Photoforum PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland; toured to nine other countries (2001); Women Photographers, French Cultural Center, Jerusalem (1993) Residencies and Professional Experience: Pro Helvetia Artist in Residence, Boswil, Switzerland (1995-96); Chief Photographer, Al Ahram Weekly (Egyptian English-language newspaper) (1994-2005); Photo Stringer, Agence France-Presse, in Egypt and Palestine (1994) Bibliography: Golia, Maria. Cairo, City of Sand. London: Reaktion Books, 2004. Hanna, Nelly, and Randa Shaath. Misr umm al-dunya (On the History of Islamic Cairo). Cairo: Dar al-Fata al-Arabi, 1990. Randa Shaath: Under the Same Sky, Cairo. Rotterdam and Barcelona: Witte de With and Fundació Tàpies, 2003. Shaath, Randa. Watani ala marma haggar (Life in a Refugee Camp). Cairo: Dar al-Fata al-Arabi, 1988.

MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY Born in Cape Town, 1981; Lives and works in South Africa; Education: BA, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (2004); Solo Exhibitions: Die Vier Hoeke, Nelson Mandela Cell, Pollsmoor Prison, South Africa (2005) Group Exhibitions: Art 36 Basel; Un autre monde, 6th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali; Cape Town Month of Photography, South African Centre for Photography, Cape Town; Click, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg Vyf Kurators, Vyftien Kunstenaars (Five Curators, Fifteen Artists), Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa (2005); Exhibited Finalist, Brett Kebble Art Awards, Cape Town International Conference Centre (2004) Awards: Michaelis Prize and Simon Girson Prize for Die Vier Hoeke (2004).

SADA TANGARA Born in Mali, 1984; Lives and works in Dakar; Solo Exhibitions: Sada Tangara, MAMCO-Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva; Centre Culturel Français de Saint-Louis, Senegal (2003); le grand sommeil, MEP-Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris (2002) Group Exhibitions: Fotonoviembre 2005, 8th Bienal Internacional de Fotografía, Centro de Fotografía, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (2005); Dak'Art 2004: Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar (2004); Enfants de nuit, Festival Perspectives Nouvelles, Saarbrücken, Germany; Enfants de nuit, Festival d'Avignon, France; Mois de la Photo, MEP-Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (2002); Dak'Art 2000: Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar; Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Palais de l'Archevêché, Arles, France (2000); La Passerelle, Scène Nationale de Saint-Brieuc, France (1999); Dak'Art 1998: Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar (1998) Awards: Lauréat du Prix Gilles Dusein for “le grand sommeil,” MEP-Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris (2003) Bibliography: Bruyère, Jean-Michel, ed. L'envers du jour: Monde réels et imaginaires des enfants errants de Dakar. Paris: Édition Léo Scheer, 2001.

GUY TILLIM Born in Johannesburg, 1962; Lives and works in Cape Town; Education: BCom, University of Cape Town (1985) Solo Exhibitions: Guy Tillim, South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2005); Guy Tillim, Südafrika, Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart; DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin; Kunhinga Portraits, Sala Uno, FotoGrafia: Festival Internazionale, Rome; Leopold and Mobutu, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town; The Photographers' Gallery, London (2004); Congo Democratic Republic, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town; Fotofiesta, Medellín, Colombia; Departure, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town; NSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa; Photo ZA Gallery, Johannesburg; Kunhinga Portraits and Congo Democratic Series, Photo ZA Gallery, Johannesburg (2003); Kuito, Angola, South African Museum, Cape Town; Gallerie Dupon, Paris; Société des Auteurs Multimedia, Paris (2001) Group Exhibitions: Un autre monde, 6th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali; A Journey Around My House, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Outside Europe, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin; 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town (2005); Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Staged Realities: Exposing the Soul in African Photography, 1870-2004, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town; Unsettled: 8 South African Photographers, National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen; The Regional Museum, Kristianstad, Sweden; Reykjavik Museum of Photography (2004); Unveiled / Enthüllt, OMC Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Düsseldorf (2003) Awards: Leica Oskar Barnack Award (2005); DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Photography (2004); Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Award (2003); Prix SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia) (2002); Finalist, Prix Care for Humanitarian Reportage, France (2001); Mondi Award South Africa for Photojournalism (1999); Mondi Award South Africa for Photojournalism (1998) Bibliography: Badsha, Omar, and Guy Tillim. Amulets & Dreams: War, Youth & Change in Africa. Pretoria: South African History Online in cooperation with Unisa Press and the Institute for Security Studies, 2002. Guy Tillim: Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Photography. Pretoria: DaimlerChrysler South Africa, 2004. Tillim, Guy. Departure. Cape Town: Michael Stevenson Contemporary, 2003. Tillim, Guy. Jo'Burg. Johannesburg: STE Publishers, 2005. Tillim, Guy, and Adam Hochschild. Leopold and Mobutu. Trézélan, France: Filigranes Editions, 2004.

MICHAEL TSEGAYE Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1975; Lives and works in Addis Ababa; Education: Diploma in Painting, Addis Ababa University (1998-2002) Solo Exhibitions: Religious Ceremonies, Royal Netherlands Embassy, Addis Ababa (2005); Foreign, Goethe-Institut, Addis Ababa; Out of the Blue, Goethe-Institut, Addis Ababa (2003); Visions of Addis, Goethe-Institut, Addis Ababa (2002); Faces and Identities, Goethe-Institut, Addis Ababa (2001) Group Exhibitions: Expressions 2, Bulgarian Embassy, Addis Ababa; Guramayle, Alem Art Gallery, Addis Ababa; Expressions, Alem Art Gallery, Addis Ababa (2004); Self Portrait, Alliance Ethio-Française, Addis Ababa (2003).

HENTIE VAN DER MERWE Born in Windhoek, Namibia, 1972; Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium; Education: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine (2001); Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten (HISK), Antwerp (2000-2002); MA, Fine Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1996-2000); BA, Fine Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1991-94) Solo Exhibitions: Hentie van der Merwe, Van Laere Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium (2005); graph, Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne (2004); Hentie van der Merwe, Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne; Van Laere Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium (2003); Trappings, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (2001) Group Exhibitions: (my private) HEROES, MARTa Herford, Germany (2005); 10 anni 10 voci, IsIAO-Istituto Italiano per l'Africa el'Oriente, Rome (2004); Body and the Archive, Artists Space, New York; Sexualität und Tod: AIDS in der Zeitgenössischen afrikanischen Kunst, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne (2003); Mémoires intimes d'un nouveau millenaire, 4th Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali (2001); Emotions and Relations [curated by Hentie van der Merwe], Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg; Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, South Africa;Translation/Seduction/Displacement, White Box Gallery, New York (2000); Lines of Sight, South African National Gallery, Cape Town (1999) Awards and Residencies: Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Overseas Study Grant (2000-2001); Nominee, FNB Vita Art Prize, South Africa (2000); National Arts Council Bursary for Overseas Study (1999) Bibliography: Coulson, Amanda. “Hentie van der Merwe at Galerie Gabriele Rivet.” Art on Paper 9, no. 3 (January–February 2005). Reindl, Uta M. “One to Seven: Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Köln.” Kunstforum International 157 (November–December 2001), pp. 342-43. van der Merwe, Hentie. “The Difference Between Colonisation and Desire.” In Grey Areas: Representation, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary South African Art, edited by Brenda Atkinson and Candice Breitz. Johannesburg: Chalkham Hill Press, 1999.

NONTSIKELELO “LOLO” VELEKO Born in Cape Town, 1977. Lives and works in Johannesburg; Education: Student and Project Manager, Market Photography Workshop, Johannesburg (1999-2004) Solo Exhibitions: “The Ones on Top Won't Make It Stop!” An Ongoing South African Graffiti Exhibition, Women's Arts Festival, Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg; The Kuppel, Basel; Johannesburg Art Gallery; Cine Africa, Maputo, Mozambique (2003) Group Exhibitions: Click, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town (2005); Is Everybody Comfortable? A Market Photography Workshop Exhibition, Bensusan Museum of Photography, Johannesburg; Fortaleza, Maputo, Mozambique; Mine(d)fields, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel; Negotiated Identities-Black Bodies, Johannesburg Art Gallery; Photofesta, Associação Moçambicana de Fotografia (AMF), Maputo; Sondela: A Decade of Democracy: Witnessing South Africa, Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston; African American Museum, Dallas; Florida A&M University, Tallahassee; NSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa; Unsettled: 8 South African Photographers, National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen; The Regional Museum, Kristianstad, Sweden; Reykjavik Museum of Photography; Urban Life: Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder: A Market Photography Workshop Exhibition, Johannesburg Art Gallery; Jahnitos, Maputo, Mozambique (2004); Fragments of the City: 6 Women Photographers Defining the City and Popular Culture in South Africa, Bensusan Museum of Photography, Johannesburg (2003); SHARP: A Market Photography Workshop Exhibition, Market Theatre, Johannesburg (2002); MOVE: A Market Photography Workshop Exhibition, Market Theatre, Johannesburg (2001)Awards: Nominee, MTN New Contemporary Artist (2003).

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