Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
The Wake, Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany.
Let me tell you about Red…, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa.
The Red Ventriloquist, MAC Lyon – Musée d’art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France.
A Red Flight of Fancy, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
2021
Blue, Purple, Red, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Unhand Me, Demon!, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA.
2019
I Came Apart at the Seams, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Somerset House, London, UK.
Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York City, USA.
2018
The Armory Show (Gallery MOMO), Piers 92 & 94, New York City, USA.
A Crescendo of Ecstasy, presented by The Mixed Reality Workshop (TMRW) in collaboration with Eden Labs, Keyes Art Mile; FNB Joburg Art Fair (TMRW), Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2016
Right Now!, as part of Stellenbosch University’s Woordfees Festival, Stellenbosch University’s Art Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
The Armory Show (Gallery MOMO), 92 & 94 Piers, New York City, USA.
2014
The Purple Shall Govern, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2013
Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France.
The Purple Shall Govern, Grahamstown National Arts Festival Grahamstown; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
The Purple Shall Govern, MAC/VAL Musée d’Art Contemporain di Val-de-Marne, Paris, France.
Mary Sibande and Sophie Ntombikayise Take Central Court, Central Court, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
The Purple Shall Govern, MAC/VAL The Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France; IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town ; North-West
University Gallery, North-West University, Potchefstroom; Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, The National Arts Festival,
Grahamstown; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
2012
Mary Sibande and Sophie Ntombikayise Take Central Court, Central Court, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
2010
Long Live the Dead Queen, Inner City Johannesburg, Exhibition of billboards on 19 buildings, Johannesburg, The Albany History Museum; Grahamstown, South Africa.
2009
Long live the Dead Queen, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2006
My Madam’s Things, Gordart Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
[upcoming] Textile Biennial, Museum Rijswijk, Netherlands
Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
2022
FNB Art Joburg (SMAC Gallery), Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Dream Invisible Connections: Mary Sibande & Dorothy Kay, Strauss & Co, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Inner Landscapes, Bloom Galerie, Geneva, Switzerland.
Art Brussels (SMAC Gallery), Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium.
Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK), Oudtshoorn, South Africa.
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), Cape Town, South Africa.
2021
Art Basel Miami Beach (Kavi Gupta), Miami Beach, USA.
West Bund Art & Design Fair (Bloom Galerie), West Bund Dome, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.
Paris Photo Fair (Braverman Gallery), Braverman Gallery, Paris, France.
Weekend Special, Cape Town Art Weekend, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
Opening Exhibition, FNB Art Joburg, SMAC Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
TEXTURES: The History and Art of Black Hair, Kent State University, Ohio, USA.
Investec Cape Town Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Digital Event.
Black Luminosity, curated by Gcotyelwa Mashiqa, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Margins of Error, NIROX Foundation Sculpture Park, Krugersdorp, South Africa.
2020
BredaPhoto, Breda, Netherlands.
Investec Cape Town Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Cape Town International Convention
Centre (CTICC), Cape Town, South Africa.
Reclaiming Power: Womxn and Intersecting Inequalities, Oxfam South Africa, The Worker’s Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa.
NOW LOOK HERE. The African Art of Appearance, Asterweg 17, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Making of Ourselves, BKHZ, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present,
Moody Centre for the Arts – Rice University, Houston, USA.
Soos Familie / Like Family, Rupert Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
2019
Ngoma: Art and Cosmology, curated by Musha Neluheni, Philippa van Straaten
& Khwezi Gule, Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg, South Africa.
Felix Fair (Kavi Gupta), Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, USA.
Art Basel Miami (Kavi Gupta), Miami Beach, Miami, USA.
arteBOTANICA, Nirox Sculpture Park, Krugersdorp, South Africa.
Frieze London (Kavi Gupta), Regents Park, London, UK.
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Somerset House, London, UK.
To Reclaim, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, USA.
That Was Then, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
My Africa. Our Art, Javett Art Centre, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Open Borders, 14ª Curitiba International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Curitiba, Brazil.
N’GOLÁ Festival of Arts, Creation, Environment and Utopias, São Tomé e Príncipe.
Ampersand Foundation Award 21 years celebration exhibition,
University of Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), South Africa.
FNB Art Joburg (SMAC Gallery), Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Construction of the Possible, Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba.
Made Visible, Contemporary South African Fashion and Identity, Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, USA.
2018
The Red Hour, curated by Simon Njami, Dak’Art: African Contemporary Art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal.
In Their Own Form, Museum of Contemporary Photography(MoCP), Chicago, USA.
Shifting Boundaries: A Selection of Works showcasing South African Women Artists
of the Past 100 Years, Welgemeend, Cape Town, South Africa.
Not a Single Story, a collaboration between NIROX Foundation & The Wanås Foundation, Nirox Foundation Sculpture Park, Cradle of Human Kind, South Africa.
Continental Drift: Black / blak Art from South Africa and North Australia, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, Australia.
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now), The Met Breuer, New York City, USA.
Cultural Threads, TextielMuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands.
Friends50, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
Extra/Ordinary, curated by Ceren & Irkman Arkman, Plugin New Media Section, Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey.
2017
South Africa: The Art of a Nation, The British Museum, London, UK.
All things being equal, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African (MOCAA),
Cape Town, South Africa.
African Mosaic: Selections from the Permanent Collection, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C, USA.
Dress Code, Gallery MOMO, Cape Town, South Africa.
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair (Gallery Momo), Somerset House, London, UK.
Art on Paper, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa. Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), Cape Town, South Africa.
The Evidence of Things Not Seen, Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg, South Africa.
Another Antipodes/Urban Axis, PS Art Space, Fremantle, Australia.
Beauty and Its Beasts, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa.
Identitet/Identity Avesta Kommun, Verket/Avesta Art, Sweden.
Deep Memory, Kalmar konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden.
2016
Different Angels, Höhenrausch Linz, Austria.
Desire, Association of Arts Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Re[as]sisting Narratives [Travelling Exhibition], Framer Framded, Amsterdam, Netherlands; District Six Museum Homecoming Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.
A Place in Time, Nirox Foundation Sculpture Park, Krugersdorp, South Africa.
Selling the Shadow, curated by Ayana V Jackson, Gallery MOMO, Cape Town, South Africa.
Chicago Expo (Gallery MOMO) Chicago, USA.
After the Thrill is Gone, Fashion Politics and Culture South Africa, Richmond Center for Visual Arts, USA.
South Africa the Art of a Nation, British Museum, London ,UK.
2015
Barriers – Contemporary South Africa, Wanås Konst Sculpture Park, Knislinge, Sweden.
Art_textile, The Whitworth, Manchester, UK.
Between the Art and the Experience, Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
Twenty: Art in the Time of Democracy, UJ Arts Centre, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
ReSignifications: Imagining the Black Body and Re-Staging Histories, Museo Bardini, Florence, Italy.
South African Art in a Time of Democracy, 6th Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China.
2014
Where do I end and you begin?, Edinburgh Festival of Arts, Scotland.
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada.
Material Self: Performing the Other Within, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada.
2013
Say it Loud!: Art by African and African-American Artists in the Collection, Norton Museum of Art, Florida, USA.
My Joburg, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany; La Maison Rouge, Paris, France.
Family Histories, Dishman Art Museum, Lamar University, Beaumont, USA.
Sibande on Campus: Mary Sibande Installation/New Work, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Meanwhile…. Suddenly and Then, 12th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France.
2012
Recent Additions: 2009-2012, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
The Rainbow Nation: Contemporary Sculpture from South Africa, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Hague, Netherlands.
Somehow, Somewhat in the middle of things, Liefhertje en De Grote Witte Reus Gallery, Hague, Netherlands.
Say it loud, Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
2011
(Re)constructions, Contemporary Art from South Africa, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói (MAC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
ARS 11, Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland.
Desire, Narratives in Contemporary South African Art, 54th Venice Biennale (South African Pavilion), Venice, Italy.
Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
BEYOND Re/PRODUCTION. MOTHERING, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.
2010
From Pierneef to Gugulective: 1910-2010, Iziko South African National Gallery,
Cape Town, South Africa.
l’Exposition du Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres, Dakar, Senegal.
Space: Currencies in Contemporary African Art, curated by Thembinkosi Goniwe & Melissa Mboweni, Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2008
Four Tales, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2007
Dark and lovely (5 Women), Gordart Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
I Love you Positive or Negative, Espace Simon Michel, Paris, France.
2006
Sasol Miniatures Exhibition Sasol, Johannesburg, South Africa.
ABSA L’ATELIER Awards Top 50 exhibition, ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
I Love You Positive or Negative, Alliance Francaise, Johannesburg, South Africa.