born 1956 in Johannesburg, South Africa
lives in Johannesburg

Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2006 “Chasing Shadows: Magic and Disease”, carlier | gebauer
2006 “Invoice: Chasing Shadows/ Magic and Disease”,
Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
2004 “Santu Mofokeng”, Gallery Momo, Johannesburg, South Africa
2004 “Rethinking Landscapes”, CPIF, Paris
2003 “Chasing Shadows”, Memling Museum, Brugge, Belgium
1999 “The Black Photo Album / Look At Me (photos)”, FNAC Montparnasse, France
1998 “Lunarscapes”, Nederland Foto Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1995 “Distorting Mirror / Townships Imagined” Worker´s Library, Johannesburg, South Africa

Group Exhibitions (selected)
2008 "Urban Reflections", Stills, Edinburgh, Scotland
2008 Haunch of Venison, London
2007 “Reality Crossings,” 2. Fotofestival Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
2007  “52nd Venice Biennial” (African Pavillon)
2007 “Contemporary Photography Art from South Africa”, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
2007-2004 “Afrika Remix”, Germany, UK, France, Japan
2004 “Unsettled”, Copenhagen, DK / Durban, SA
2004 “Forbidden City”, Beijing, China
2004 “New Identities. Zeitgenoessische Kunst aus Suedafrika”, Museum Bochum, Germany
2002 documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
2001 “The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994”, MGB, Berlin / Guggenheim Center, NY
2000 “The Song of the Earth”, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2000 “L´État des Choses”, Kunstwerke Berlin, Germany
1998 “Blank--: Architecture, apartheid and after”, Netherlands Architecture Institute Rotterdam
1996 “In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present”, Guggenheim Museum, New York
1994 “A Shifting Landscape”, Photo International, Rotterdam
1993 “In Transit”, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
 
Awards and Prizes
2001 DAAD Fellowship, Berlin, Germany
1998 Künstlerhaus Worpswede Fellowship, Worpswede, Germany
1992 1st Mother Jones Award for Africa
1991 Ernest Cole Scholarship to study ICP, New York, USA