Solo Exhibitions
2018
When the moon waxes red, African Feminisms Conference (Afems 2018) Rhodes University Fine Art Department, Makhanda, 27-29 September
2016
When the moon waxes red, Studiengalerie, Goethe Universitat-Frankfurt, Germany, 28-30 September
When the moon waxes red, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 19 February-1 May
2015
Post-apartheid Guernica and Daebu Lullaby (Residency exhibition), Gyeonggi Cultural Centre, Gyeonggi, South Korea, 17 July
Nervous Conditions, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 23 January
2013
Nervous Conditions, I Make Art, No Place, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 5 December
2011
Other Stories, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa, 31 March-30 April
2009
Other Stories, Right on the Rim Gallery, Arts on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa, 12 September-11 October
(B)lack and What I look like, What I feel like, Polokwane Art Museum, Polokwane, 26 March-15 May
2008
(B)lack, Association for the Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 10-23 March
What I look like, What I feel like, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa, 4-29 September
2007
(B)lack, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA), Durban, South Africa, 2-21 October (catalogue)
Walking the Line, BAT Centre, Durban, South Africa, 5 – 27 October
2006
Previously Disadvantaged, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa, 17 August – 3 September (catalogue)
2004
Walking the Line, University of Witwatersrand Downstairs Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa, 3 September (catalogue)
2003
Two for One Rand, Goethe Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, 25 November-11 December
2001
Durban at Work, Master’s degree work, Kwa-Muhle Museum, Durban, South Africa, April-June
Group Exhibitions
2022
– When the moon waxes and When the moon wanes, 5th Casablanca Biennale, So Art Gallery, Casablanca,
Morocco, 18 November-17 December 2022, Curated by Selma Naguib
2021-2022
– Post-Apartheid Guernica – Come Home: A Call, Live Performance by Sharlene Khan, Mokgabudi Amos
Letsoalo, Litho Nqai and Mandlakazi Zilwa, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 21 October
2022
– Post-Apartheid Guernica, Sharlene Khan and Mokgabudi Amos Letsoalo, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 10 October 2021 – 30 January 2022
2020
– Now-Now, Gallery 114, Curator: James Reed, Oregon, USA, 5-29 November, Curator: James Reed (catalogue)
– New World Order, Turbine Art Fair, 27 August – 2 September, Curator: Johan Thom
– Embodying Hir-Self, Latitudes Art Fair Online, Curator: Beathur Mgoza Baker, 17 August – September
2019
– Present Passing: South by Southeast, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, 24 March-15 June, Curators: Patrick D. Flores and Natasha Becker (catalogue)
2018
– Re-membering: Memory, Intimacy, Archive, Jordache Ellapen, Reshma Chhiba and Sharlene Khan, Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 22 June-25 July
– Re-membering: Memory, Intimacy, Archive, Jordache Ellapen and Sharlene Khan, Point of Order Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 5-18 April
2017
– When the moon waxes red, Thessaloniki Biennale, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece, 30 September-
14 January 2018
– Looking after Freedom, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 7-26 September, Curators: Nkule Mabaso and Rael Salley
– Re-membering: Memory, Intimacy, Archive, Jordache Ellapen, Reshma Chhiba and Sharlene Khan, KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa, 15 August-3 September
– Looking after Freedom, Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 23 May-23
June, Curators: Nkule Mabaso and Rael Salley
2016
– Foundations and Futures – Celebrating 25 Years, Bag Factory (Fordsburg Artist) Studios, 28 October-12 December, Curator: Aysha Waja
– Reasons and its Discontents, His Majesty’s Asylum, Pop-up Gallery – 19 Hill Street, Makhanda, South Africa, 30 June-5 July, Curators: Fouad Asfour and Sharlene Khan
2015
– Thupelo 30 Year Exhibtion/Auction, Provinence Auction House, Cape Town, South Africa, 12 November, Curator: Jill Trappler
– Two-person show with Mirielle Jefferson, Spring/break Art Show, New York, USA, 3-8 March, Curator: Natasha Becker
2014
– Literary, Polokwane Art Museum, Polokwane, South Africa, 10 September-15 October, Curator: Amos Letsoalo
– ARTchipelago Artists Exhibition, Institut Francais Maurice, Mauritius, 20 June-7 July, Curator: Tiffany Thompson
2013
– Rememory, William Goodenough College, London, UK, 25 February-3 March, Curators: Sharlene Khan, Fouad Asfour and Imara Rolston
2012
– She Said No – a No-Peformance, Goldsmiths Art Department, London, UK, 11 December
– Happily Never After, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 2-27 July, Curator: Sharlene Khan
– Staff/Stuff, Unisa Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa, 19 June-6 July, Curator: Lawrence Lemaoana
2011
– It’s all Chinese to Me – How Abstract Can One Be?, After the Butcher, Berlin, Germany, 17 June-7 August, Curator: Eva Seufert
– Agter die Berge: The Joburg Fringe Video Berlin, Haus 19, Berlin, Germany, 26 May-11 June, Curators: Claudia Shneider and Christine Gruss
– Figures of Speech, ‘Beyond Languages Project’, Jozi Art Lab, Arts on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa, 25 February-6 March, Curators: Eva Seufert, Fouad Asfour, Claudia Shneider
– Samsara, Tathum Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 24 February-20 March, Curator: Selvin Naidoo
– Crossing Boundaries: Contemporary Art and Artists from South Africa, The Gallery – Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar, 26 January-5 March, Curators: Jochen Sokoly and Ortrud Mulder (catalogue)
2010
– Samsara, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa, 26 November-13 February 2011, Curator: Selvin Naidoo
– Nud(g)e, Artspace, Johannesburg, South Africa, 30 May-30 June, Curator: Sotiris Moldovanos
– The New Order Beauty, Palette Art Gallery, Delhi, India, 25 January-28 February, Curator: Vibha Galhotra
2009
– Art from Southern Africa, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH Head Office, Eschborn, Germany, 12 November-February 2010, Curator: Karin Reinprecht
– Bring mir ein Gras vom Rand der Bildebene, Atelier Frankfurt, Germany, 5 June-8 July, Curators: Fouad Asfour and Saul Judd
2008
– Urban Concerns, BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden, 19 January-1 March, Curator: Veronica Wiman
– Gunshot Show, Afrika Cultural Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, 27 January, Curator: Claudia Shneider
– Esikhaleni Spatial Practices, Africa Cultural Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, 14-16 March, Curators: Dead Revolutionaries Club and Claudia Shneider
– Living Legacy, Kizo Gallery, Durban, South Africa, 1-30 September, Curators: Bongi Bengu and Nathi Gumede. (catalogue)
– Modern Fabrics, Bag Factory Artist’s Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa, 22 September-17 October, Curator: Nontobeka Ntombela
– Bring mir ein Gras vom Rand der Bildebene, Dioptic GmbH Weinheim, Germany, 17 October-30 March, Curator: Fouad Asfour and Dioptic GmbH
2007
-The Hourglass Project: Personal Vocabulary, House Museum and Resource Centre of African American Art, Atlanta, USA, 15 July-9 September, Curator: Karen Comer Lowe. (catalogue)
– Gunshot Show, Biba Gallery, Smithfield, South Africa, 15 December-25 January, Curator: Claudia Shneider
2006
– MTN New Contemporaries, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 21 May-25 June, Curator: Khwezi Gule (catalogue)
– Les Arts De La Coexistence?, Alliance Francaise, Paris, France, 17-20 January
– Les Arts De La Coexistence?, Les Arts Deniers, Paris, France, 15 February-30 March
2005
– Feb Group Show International 2005, Bayer ABS Limited Gallery, Gujerat, India, February-March, Curator: Vinod Patel and Alok Bal (catalogue)
– Take Me to the River, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa, 25 May-3 July, Curator: Vivienne Lassman (catalogue)
– Les Arts De La Coexistence?, Migrationculturelles, Bordeaux, France, 21 September-22 October, Curator: Bruce Clark (catalogue)
– Les Arts De La Coexistence?, St. Eugene Crypt, Biarritz, France, 17 November-4 December
– South African Artists on Residency, Mairie Chateau, Pujols, France, 3-8 December
2004
– The ID of South African Artists, Fortis Circus Theatre, Scheveningen, Holland, April, Curators: Janine Van Den Ende, William Wells, Sharlene Khan (catalogue)
– Community (Re)Production, Gallery Ancienne Couronne, Biel-Bienne, Switzerland, 15 May, Curator: Hubert Dechant
– 10 Years, 100 Artists, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 8-23 December
2003
– Thupelo International Workshop Exhibition, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, February
– Women’s Day Exhibition, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa, 7-22 August, Curator: Phumzile Dlamini (catalogue)
– Open Studio, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, 2-7 November
2002
– State of Being, Fordsburg Artists’ Studios, Johanneburg, South Africa, April (catalogue)
– Freedom -1001 Miniatures, Spaza Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 27 April, Curator: Andrew Lindsay
– Mail Art, Minds-I Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa, June-July
– Heritage Day Exhibition, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa, September-October, Curator: Pat Khoza (catalogue)
2001
– Unmasked, Crart Rd, Durban, South Africa, March-April, Curator: Gabi Ngcobo
– Ethwekeni, Bat Centre, Durban, South Africa, May-June, Curator: Gabi Ngcobo
2000
– Malibongwe Ophezulu, African Art Centre, Durban, South Africa, Curator: Anthea Martin, August
– Heritage Day Exhibition, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa, September- October, Curators: Pat Khoza and Phumzile Dlamini
1999
– Izikwepha Zethu, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa, July, Curators: Pat Khoza and Phumzile Dlamini
1998
– 5th Gopio International Visual Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa, July-August