Author: AOOM

Film Screening and Live Q&A Event for VOXFEM’s Retrospective Film Festival

University of Cape Town Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) Great Texts Talk

Selected publications on Lebohang Kganye (provided by the artist)

Kesting, Marietta (2021) Chapter 11 Affective Archives: Re-animating family photographs in the works of Lebohang Kganye and Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. In Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges. Darren Newbury, Lorena Rizzo and Kylie Thomas (Eds). Routledge.
Available here

Zanot, Francesco (2018) Familiengeister (Family Ghosts).
Available here

Kesting, Marietta (2016) Performing History/ies with Obsolete Media: The Example of a South African Photo-Film. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. 12: 24-38.
Available here

Selected interviews

Lebohang Kganye interviewed by Mmutle Arthur Kgokong (2018) Intraparadox: Interview with Lebohang Kganye. Intraparadox. 30 August 2018.
Available here

Lebohang Kganye interviewed by Sarah Allen (nd). Lebohang Kganye Dipina tsa Kganya Interview with Sarah Allen. 100 Words.
Available here

Lebohang Kganye interviewed by John Fleetwood
Interview provided by artist and available here

Awards given to Betty Govinden

• UNISA PRESS Hiddingh-Currie Research Award – for Best Academic Book, 2010. [For Sister Outsiders]

• UKZN BOOK PRIZE for Best Academic Book, 2011. [For Sister Outsiders]
  
• WOMANDLA  Award. 15 September 2019. At 1860 Heritage Centre. Other awardees included Gcina Mhlophe, Nisa Malange, Judge Navi Pillay, Ela Gandhi.

• Durban Book Fair : Lifetime Achievement Award.  Ethekwini [Durban] Municipality. 18 December 2021.

• Best Prize in Presentations Section:  DUT ANNUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE. Digifest,  14-17 October, 2021. Title of Presentation: “Humans and Robots: A Reflection on Klara and the Sun” [Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Laureate].

• Award of  The Holy Nativity – For Distinguished Lay Service. Anglican Diocese of Natal.

• The English Academy Gold Medal Award. 2022.

Poems: Publications and Presentations by Betty Govinden

Prof Daisy Pillay – Inaugural Lecture.  6 poems to accompany the artworks.

2 poems for Profs Daisy Pillay and Marguerite Muller: SAERA 2023 Conference paper.  “Reaching Out”  and “The Teacher as the Artist”.

Poem Presentation  for Neville Alexander. Against Racial Capitalism – Selected Writings by Neville Alexander. Edited by Salim Vally & Enver Motala. 17 October  2023. UKZN Launch. [Zoom].

Poem: CORRUPTED – A study of chronic dysfunction in South African universities. Jonathan D Jansen.  Johannesburg: Wits University Press.

Poem: Letters to my Mother. By Kumi Naidoo. 2022. Jacana Media.

Presentation: Invitation to present Poems at Midlands Literary Festival – September 3-4, 2022.  [Co-ordinator: Mr Daryl David] [Did not attend, as it was live and not virtual].

Presentation: Invitation to present Poems at Global Forum,  “Sangam and Agora.” Co-ordinated by Prof Vinay Lal, UCLA. July 16, 2022. [Participants include Bongani Kona [UWC/SA], David Garyan [USA/Italy/Armenia] and Henry Theriault [Worcester State University, Mass. US; Editor of The Armenian Weekly.]

Poem. In Memorial Volume [Festschrift] for  Dr E S Reddy – Anti-Apartheid Campaigner at the UN. Eds. Jairam Reddy & Selvan Naidoo. 1860 Heritage Centre and Micromega. 2022.

Poem. In Sisters in The Struggle – Women of Indian Origin  in South Africa’s Liberation Struggle. Kalpana Hiralal. UNISA Press: Pretoria. 2022.

“In Memoriam” – Poem for Professor Brij Vilash Lal [1952-2021, Fiji] In Indialogs. Vol 9, 2022, pp. 99-101. [University of Barcelona].

“In Memoriam” – Poem for Professor Brij Vilash Lal [1952-2021] In  Memorial Collection for Professor Lal, collated by Professor David Dabydeen, University of Warwick, UK. 2022.

Two  poems : “Called to Serve”; “Captive for Freedom”. In Ecumenical Encounters with Desmond Tutu: Visions for Justice, Dignity and Peace,  pp.  189-191.  To commemorate Archbishop Tutu’s 90^th Birthday, on 9 October 2021]. Edited by : Nadar, Sarojini, Maluleke, Tinyiko  Werner, Kgabe, and Hinz. Co-published by Regnum Books, Oxford, and UWC Press, Cape Town.

Poem “For Lewis Nkosi”. In The Black Psychiatrist – Flying Home: Texts, Perspectives, Homage. Eds. Astrid Starck-Adler & Dag Henrichsen. Basler Afrika Bibliograhien: Namibia.  2021.

“Rest in Peace.” In Sayinkalam – Life Songs and Stories.  By Noah Moses Israel. Edited by Dr Connie Israel, 2021, pp. 233.

“Poem for my Grandmother.” In Special Issue : Indian Ocean Imaginaries. 82: 2021, pp. 193-197. Edited by Esther Pujolràs-Noguer & Juan Ignacio Oliva [University of La Laguna, Spain].

Poem.In Children of The Kala Pani – Indian Indentured Routes – 1834-1920.  Judgesdan Pather. 2021. Micromega Publications: Durban.

Presentation: Memorial Poem for Professor Kriben Pillay, 11 December 2021, at UKZN Memorial Programme.

Presentation and Poem : For  Professor Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie – On Retirement. 2021. Presentations by  Professors Kalpana Hiralal [UKZN] and Neilesh Bose [Canada], among others.

Poem on Women. For Women’s Day Commemoration,  21 August, 2021.  The   1860 Heritage  Centre. Participants included Ashante Ngidi,  Fasiha Hassan,  Lesley Ann Forster, Pregs Govender, Gcina Mhlophe,  Liza Aziz, and Siddharthiya Pillay.

Poem.  At Durban Launch of Children of Sugarcane, by Joanne Joseph.  At 1860 Heritage Centre, Durban. Other speakers included Prof Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, Adv Zandile Qono and Kiru Naidoo. 22^nd October, 2021.

Poem presented at  Johannesburg  Launch  of Children of Sugarcane by Joanne Joseph.  At Exclusives, Hyde Park. 27 October 2021.

Poems: Composed in Honour of Ronnie Govender.  April – May 2021.

Poem for Barbara Boswell. Panel Discussion with Barbara Boswell [chaired by Prof. Rajendra Chetty], Madibaland World Literary Festival, UWC, 2020.

Presentation: Poems for Literary Workshop.  “Literary Ecologies of the Indian Ocean. Mauritian and Southern African Intersections.” Co-ordinated by Isabel Hofmeyr. August 16-17, 2019.  WISER, at Wits University. 

Poem on Song for Sarah.  Biography by Jonathan Jansen, with Naomi Jansen.  2017.

Poem on Making Love in a War Zone. Research Publication by Jonathan Jansen. 2017.

Poem presentation [from Return to My Native Land, by  Aime Cesaire]. University Teaching and Learning Office [UTLO] – SPIVAK SEMINAR, UKZN, Durban,  7^th August 2017.

Poem for Launch : AGENDA – Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No 99/28.1, 2014, Special Issue, Autobiographies, Biographies and Writing Lives.   Co-Editor with Prof Nyna Amin.  Introduction, pp. 3-6.  

Poem – To Commemorate the 150^th  Anniversary of the Arrival of Indian Indentured labourers in SA.  English Academy Review.  2011.

Two poems in Womandla! Women power!  A Vibrant Collection of Women’s writing.[Foreword, pp.6-8] Edited by Shabnam Palesa Mohamed, Puleng Nomvula Ndlovu,  Farah Sayed, Aisha Poetrix Mponda, Tasneem Rawat Ally, Nazeera Vawda. Affiliated to CFAD publication.Poem – For Phyllis Naidoo, pp.199-201.Poem – for Valliamma, pp.201-203.

Betty Govinden featured in The POST November 22- November 26, 2023

(photographs courtesy of Betty Govinden)

2020
Podcast: Transfixed in Mothering Time, Mamas with Attitude – Ep16, 30 September

Podcast: Feminism is not about ‘Eating’ Men for Breakfast, Sharlene Khan Chats with Danielle Painter, Jacaranda-FM, 24 August

Hir-self at work in the Art World, Latitudes Webinar with Makgati Molebatsi, Refilwe Nkomo and Sharlene Khan, moderated by Beathur Mgoza Baker, 9 August

2019
Podcast: Creativity, Agency and African Feminisms Conference 2019, Arts Research Africa Dialogues, Wits School of the Arts, Johannesburg, RSA

2018
Rhodes FM, Interview on African Feminisms (Afems) 2018, Makhanda: RFM
Podcast: Sharlene Khan, Canon Collins Legal and Educational Trust, London: UK

2017
Rhodes FM, Interview on book I Make Art, Makhanda: RFM

2016
Kusthalle Bremen, Curator Tessa Alex Interviews Sharlene Khan, Soundcloud, 19 February

2011
SAFM, Interview on Artist Residency Programmes, October, Johannesburg: SABC

2008
Richards, N. Interview, Otherwise, SAFM Live Radio, 28 March, Johannesburg: SABC

Lotus FM. Interview, Live Radio Station, 3 September, Durban: SABC

SAFM, Interview, Live Radio Station, 15 March, Johannesburg: SABC

2007
Janson, Marten and Sharlene Khan – Imagining the Cityscape, StreetNet International.org. Interview

2006
Merchant, Preston. Sharlene Khan: “It started off as me and ended up as them”, 8 February

Mabe, S. Interview, Weekend Live, 27 August, Johannesburg: SABC 2
Mofokeng, J. Featured Artist, Curious Culture, 21 May, Johannesburg: TV 2

2005
The Apprentice TV Show, Art Sale, August, Johannesburg: SABC 3

2004
3 Talk Live Chat Show, 10 Years, 100 Artists, 29 October, Johannesburg: SABC 3

Top Billing Magazine Programme, Wearable Art, 1 October, Johannesburg: SABC 3

2021
 Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Sophie Peters, Nono Motlhoki and Sharlene Khan, African Feminisms (Afems) 2021 Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 12 October
African Feminist Creative Theorisation and the Possibilities of the Imagination, Conference on the Global Knowledge Production in African Studies, 30 September-1st October 2021
Imagining an African Press, MissRead
Feminism Ya Mang, Feminism Yethu, Feminism Yani? Video dialogue with Noma Pakade, Gorata Chengeta, Tumi Mampane and Sharlene Khan hosted by Danai Mupotsa, Goethe Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, online, 18 February

Turbine Art Fair Talk with Craig Jacobs and Sharlene Khan, 29 August
Turbine Art Fair Talk with Mary Sibande, Reshma Chhiba and Willemien de Villiers moderated by Sharlene Khan, 29 August
– Tactile Visions-Woven Exhibition (2020) – curated a set of talks with artists:
o Bev Butkow and Sharlene Khan
o Buhlebezwe Siwani and Sharlene Khan
o Londiwe Mtshali and Sharlene Khan

o Philiswa Lila and Sharlene Khan
o Reshma Chhiba and Sharlene Khan
o Mary Sibande and Sharlene Khan
o Nono Motlhoki and Sharlene Khan
o Zodwa Skeyi-Tutani and Sharlene Khan
o Dean Hutton and Sharlene Khan
o Lebogang Mogul and Sharlene Khan
o Willemien de Villiers and Sharlene Khan
o Thania Petersen and Sharlene Khan
o Lindelwa Masuku and Sharlene Khan
o Sikhumbuzo Makandula and Sharlene Khan
o Tactile Visions curatorial vision

Love in Five Parts, Visual Collaboration with Fouad Asfour, Nono Motlhoki, Zama Mwandla as part of Kundai Moyo’s workshop for her exhibition at the KZNSA Gallery, online, 18 August
Bag Factory Studio Residency Artists talk with Georgina Maxim and Erla Haraldsdottir moderated by Sharlene Khan, online, 25 April
Skin, Bone, Fire: The First Album, Opening Talk for Philiswa Lila’s exhibition Skin, Bone, Fire: The First Album, Absa Gallery, Johannesburg, 1 February
Constructing Landscapes of Probabilities, Moderation of Dialogue between Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi and Malebona Maphutse, Cape Town International Art Fair Talks Programme, Cape Town, 14 February

Book launch respondent to Nedine Moonsamy’s The Unfamous Five, Lovebooks, Johannesburg, 29 October
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Lallitha Jawahirilal and Sharlene Khan, The Point of Order Project Space, Wits University, 10 October

2019
Keynote: A Tribute to Toni Morrison, African Feminisms (Afems) 2019 Conference, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 7 September
Memento Mori/In-Memorium: Gendered Violence in the Visual Arts, African Feminisms (Afems) 2019 Conference, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 7 September
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Mamela Nyamza and Beverley Barry, African Feminisms (Afems) 2019 Conference, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 6 September
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Natasha Becker and Sharlene Khan, African Feminisms (Afems) 2019 Conference, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 5 September
‘We All Fall Down: Thinking through Lines of Proximity in South African Museum Visual Art Collecting’, invited speaker, What do Museums Change? – Art and Democracy, MMCA Research Project International Symposium on the occasion of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s 50th Anniversary, Seoul, South Korea, 28-29 June
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Lebohang Kganye and Sharlene Khan, The Point of Order Project Space, Wits University, 9 May
Memento Mori/In-Memorium: Gendered Violence in the Visual Arts, Intimacy and Injury Workshop, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 14-15 February

2018
Co-facilitator of Article Writing Workshop, National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Article Writing Workshop, Port Alfred, South Africa, 4-5 December
Co-facilitator of Decolonial AestheSis: A Parcour with Fouad Asfour, Decolonial Transformations Workshop, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 30 October-2 November
Co-convenor of the 2nd African Feminisms (Afems) Conference: The Mute Always Speak held at Rhodes University Departments of Fine Art and Literary Studies in English, attended by 60 presenters and 120 participants, 27-29 September
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue ‘Curating as World-Making’ with Zodwa Skeyi-Tutani, Nontobeko Ntombela, Same Mdluli, Nomusa Makhubu, Nkule Mabaso and Sharlene Khan, The Mute Always Speak, African Feminisms (Afems) Conference, School of Fine Art, Rhodes University, 28 September
Negotiating inside-outsider / outside-insider positionality through an African feminist research methodology, Plenary talk and mentoring for the Language, Literature and Art doctoral candidates at the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Doctoral Conference, George, South Africa, 7-9th August
Artist Talk, Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 25 July
– Convenor: Decolonial AestheSis Creative Lab, Rhodes Fine Art Department. A praxis-based creative lab with invited guests Prof Bhekizizwe Peterson, Laura Andel, Jon Alpert, Vibha Galhotra, Fouad Asfour and 22 selected participants. The Lab was sponsored by the Andrew Mellon Decolonial Funds Grant, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa, 8-14 July
When the moon waxes red, performative presentation as part of the Re-membering: Memory, Intimacy, Archive with panelists Tiffany Mugo, Dan Ojwang, Keval Harie, The Point of Order, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 18 April
Artist Talk, The Point of Order, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 12 April
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Senzeni Marasela and Sharlene Khan, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa, 8th April
Vital Statistic of a Citizen, performance and roundtable, Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) conference, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 22-24 March

2017
Paper presentation: The Personal is Institutional at the ‘Translate Contemporary Art’ roundtable, AICA Congress, Institut National de l’historie de l’art, Paris, 13-17 November
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Reshma Chhiba and Nontobeko Ntombela, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa, 27th October
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Nontobeko Ntombela and Sharlene Khan, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa, 8th September
Video screening: When the moon waxes red, East African Literary and Cultural Studies (EALCS) Conference, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 24-26 August
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue ‘Thinking Through, Talking Back: Creative Theorisation as Site of Praxis-Theory’ with Prof Pumla Gqola, Dr Yvette Abrahams, Six Mountains on her Back: (Re)thinking African Feminisms Colloquium, School of Fine Art, Rhodes University, 21 July
Co-convenor (along with the Department of English and Finding Africa), Six Mountains on her Back: (Re)thinking African Feminisms Colloquium, 21-22 July, Rhodes University, RSA
Presentation: When the moon waxes red, Keynote, NEST Symposium hosted by Wits-Stellenbosch-UCT Universities, 29th – 31st March, Cape Town, RSA.
Conference paper: Concerning Violence, Democratic Violence Conference, Rhodes University, 20th – 24th March, Makhanda, RSA.
Presentation: I Make Art – Voicing Voice, Speaking Self and Doing Criticality, Symposium performative presentation, ArtSearch symposium hosted by Wits University, 9th – 11th March, Dance Factory, Johannesburg, RSA.

2016
Presentation: I Make Art – Voicing Voice, Speaking Self and Doing Criticality, Conference performative presentation, Panel: Transgressive Acts: Transnational Bodies, Memory and Change, Black Portraitures Conference hosted by NYU Tisch School, 16th – 18th November, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, RSA. Panelists: Roshini Kempadoo, Harun Gun Sallie, Victoria Collis
Presentation: When the moon waxes red, Conference performative presentation, Panel: Reorienting the Axis: Global African Networks and Visual Production, Black Portraitures Conference hosted by NYU Tisch School, 16th – 18th November, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, RSA. Moderator: Kalia Brooks (New York University) and Anna Arabindan-Kesson. Panelists: Temi Odumosu; Awam Amkpa,
Panel convenor and moderator, The Black Body in Pain, Black Portraitures Conference hosted by NYU Tisch School, 16th – 18th November, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, RSA. Panelists: Nomusa Makhubu, Same Mdluli, Khwezi Gule, Fouad Asfour
When the moon waxes red… Negotiating subjective terrain as an ‘inside-Outsider, an Outside-insider’ researcher within a postcolonial community, Conference performative presentation, Afrasians Conference, Goethe Universitat-Frankfurt, Germany, 28th – 30th September
Symposium convener: Aluta Continua: Doing it for Daddy…Ten Years On Symposium at School of Fine Art, 16th – 17th September, Rhodes University, Makhanda, RSA. Invited guests included: Khwezi Gule, Nontobeko Ntombela, Nomusa Makhubu, Same Mdluli, Fouad Asfour, Ruth Simbao, Gemma Hart, Sikhumbuzo Makandula, Simnikwe Buhlungu, Khwezi Zungu, Mosa Kaiser, Aaliyah Tshabalala. Presented the opening address: Aluta Continua: Doing it for Daddy…Ten Years On and the closing presentation: Doing Race Work
When the moon waxes red, Conference performative presentation at the Decolonising Feminism Conference, 26th – 28th August, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, RSA
Decolonial AestheSis as a consideration for an art history curriculum, Decolonising the Curriculum Conference, 16th – 17th August, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, RSA
‘Postcolonial Masquerading’ and ‘Bio-mythography’ in the Re-telling of our Mothers Postcolonial Lives, Conference paper presentation, Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies (ACLALS), 10-15th July, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, RSA
On Being the Problem, Black Artists/White Labels, 6th June, Point of Order Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
I Make Art – Voicing Voice, Speaking Self and Doing Criticality, Lucid Lunchbox lecture, 14th April, School of Fine Art, Rhodes University, Makhanda, RSA
When the moon waxes red, performative presentation, 1917/2017: Visual Arts after Indenture Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, 18-20 March

2015
Touching and Fondling the Black Body – the Significance of the Blackface Sign in Contemporary South African Visual Arts, BMCCT Visual Arts Symposium, 8-11th September, Walter Sisulu University, RSA
Touching and Fondling the Black Body – the Significance of the Blackface Sign in Contemporary South African Visual Arts, Africa Research Day 2015, 16 March, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK

2014
Radical Politics, Critical Academia: Talking the Talk but Walking the Walk?, paper presented in conjunction with Dieuwertje Dyi Huijg and Terese Jonsson at the London South Bank University conference: Critical Diversities: Policies, Practices and Perspectives, 10-11 July, London, UK
I Make Art – Voicing Voice, Speaking Self and Doing Criticality, paper presented at the National Academy of Sound and Screen and the Zanzibar Film Festival Conference: Creative Practice, Context and Commentary: a Dialogue on Inspirational Production, 20-22 June, Stone Town, Zanzibar
“And so She Died Elsie”– Postcolonial Masquerading Strategies in the Works of South African Visual Artists Tracey Rose, Nandipha Mntambo, Senzeni Marasela and Mary Sibande, conference paper presented at the ARTchipelago Workshop Conference, 14 June, Mauritius
I Make Art, artist talk at the Institute of International Visual Arts (INIVA), 18 May, London, UKAvailable at: https://soundcloud.com/iniva/stuart-hall-library-research-network-sharlene-khan 
An Economy of Blackness in an Economy of Whiteness – the Significance of the Blackface Sign in Contemporary South African Visual Arts, paper presented at the ‘Hallucinatory Theatres’ Goldsmiths Art Research Symposium, 12 May, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
An Economy of Blackness in an Economy of Whiteness – the Significance of the Blackface Sign in Contemporary South African Visual Arts, paper presented at the ‘Uncommon Wealths: Riches and Realities’ Conference, European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS), 14-18 June, University of Innsbruck, Austria

2013
“And so She Died Elsie” – Postcolonial Masquerading Strategies in the Works of South African Visual Artists Tracey Rose, Nandipha Mntambo, Senzeni Marasela and Mary Sibande, paper presented at the ‘Visualising and Materialising Colonial Spaces’ Conference, 11 January, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

2011
Canon Collins Scholar Talk, 9 July, St Paul’s Cathedral, London, United Kingdom
Vote of thanks at launch of Canon Collins Scholarship and Legal Assistance Trust, 14 November, South Africa House, South African embassy, London, United Kingdom

2008
Artist Talk, 25 January, University of Commonwealth Qatar, Doha, Qatar

2007
Feminist Perspectives on Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, paper presented at ‘Representations of Winnie-Madikizela-Mandela’ symposium, 27 – 28 June, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, RSA
David Koloane workshop presentation, 9 May, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, RSA

2005
Artist Talk. Umea University. Umea, Sweden. 17 January

2003
Artist Talk, Migrationsculturelles (MC2a), September, Bordeaux, France
Artist Talk, School of Fashion, September, Bordeaux, France
Perceptions of South African Indian Artists in the Visual Arts Field, Conference paper presented at the South African Architecture and Art Historian Conference, 9-11 September, Rhodes University, Makhanda, RSA

2002
Artist talk, 27 October, American University in Cairo, Egypt

1999
Female Stereotypes in Murals. Visual Art Symposium, Drakensberg, RSA
The Role of Public Art in a Post-Apartheid Society: With Special Reference to the Greater Ladysmith Area, 94 -98, June, Bat Centre, Durban, RSA

Publications on Sharlene Khan

2018
Spencer, L.G.; Ligaga, D. and Musila, G.A. ‘Gender and Popular Imaginaries in Africa’. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, pp. Vol. 32(3). pps. 3-9

Ellapen, J.A. ‘When the Moon Waxes Red: Afro-Asian Intimacies and the Aesthetics of Indenture’, Small Axe 53: July, pps. 94-111

2015                     
Ellapen, J.A. From Black to Brown: Race, Diaspora, and Post-Apartheid South Africa. Unpublished dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the degree of Doctor of Philsophy, Indiana University, Indiana

Adendorff, A. The Princess in the Veld: Curating Liminality in Contemporary Art Production, University of Pretoria, Unpublished thesis for the degree of PhD (Visual Arts), University of Pretoria

2014
al-Samarai, N.L. ‘Claiming Territory Or: Being a Woman of Colour Artist from the South’ in Asfour, F. and Khan, S. (eds.) I Make Art, Johannesburg: Sharlene Khan, pps. 26-35

Asfour, F. ‘Some place where there isn’t trouble’ in Asfour, F. and Khan, S. (eds.) I Make Art, Johannesburg: Sharlene Khan, pps. 109-129

Govinden, B. ‘For Sharlene Khan: Contemplation’ in Asfour, F. and Khan, S. (eds.) I Make Art, Johannesburg: Sharlene Khan, pps. 82-85

Greslé, Y. ‘When I felt like I just wasn’t being heard’: Sharlene Khan’s Nervous Conditions’ in Asfour, F. and Khan, S. (eds.) I Make Art, Johannesburg: Sharlene Khan, pps. 66-78

Kiguwa, P. ‘Postcolonial Entanglements: Psycho-Social Readings of Race, Gender and Nation in Sharlene Khan’s Nervous Conditions and No Place’ in Asfour, F. and Khan, S. (eds.) I Make Art, Johannesburg: Sharlene Khan, pps. 90-98

Van Der Merwe, L. ‘Sacrificial Bodies as Corporeal Articulations of Violence in the Work of South African Female Artists’. Image & Text. No. 24. pps. 08-30

Pillay, T. The Artistic Practices of Contemporary South African Indian Women Artists: How Race, Class and Gender Affect the Making of Visual Art. Unpublished Masters thesis submitted in fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts, University of South Africa, Pretoria

2011                     
Bambelele, P. ‘Artist Explores Other Stories in Joburg’. Sowetan Live. 18 March 

Saleem, F. ‘South African Artists to Display Work at VCUQ Gallery’. The Peninsula. Doha, Qatar

Anonymous. ‘Gallery at VCU Qatar Presents ‘Crossing Boundaries: Contemporary Art and Artists from South Africa”.

Anonymous. ‘Crossing Boundaries. Contemporary Art and Artists from South Africa.’ L’Agenda – Qatar. pp. 48

​2010                     
Asfour, F. ‘Introduction’ in Asfour, F. (ed.) What I look like, What I feel like, exhibition catalogue, pp.8-9, Johannesburg: Sharlene Khan

Ligaga, D. ‘Negotiating Identity Through the Gendered and Racialised body of a South African Artist’, in Asfour, F. (ed.) What I look like, What I feel like, exhibition catalogue, pp.26-36, Johannesburg: Sharlene Khan

Tadjo, V. ‘Being the Subject. Sharlene Khan interviewed by Veronique Tadjo’, in Asfour, F. (ed.) What I look like, What I feel like, exhibition catalogue, pp.12-18, Johannesburg: Sharlene Khan

2009                     
NY Arts. ‘Social Masquerade – Sharlene Khan’, Summer Voices 2009, April, USA

2008                    
Kumalo-Valentine, Z. ‘Painter with Purpose: Sharlene Khan’, Marie Claire, March, pp.127, South Africa

Asfour, F. ‘Cities in Transformation – Interview with Sharlene Khan’, Amkenah Magazine, Nr. 9, Alexandria

Corrighall, M. ‘Here’s What I Think of your Labels’. Johannesburg

Bohlin, A.L. ‘Gatans liv pa Bildmuseet. “Urban Concerns” ett smarbete med Sydafrika’, Folkbladnet. 19 January

Sjorgen, A. ‘Gatans liv pa Bildmuseet’, Vasterbottens Folkblad. 29 January

Pabale, M. ‘Artists Focus on Built Environment’. Joburg.org.za. 5 March 

Asfour, F. ‘Arts’. Karibu. Khanya College, Johannesburg, pp. 7

Mdanda, S. ‘Sharlene Khan at Gallery Momo’, Artthrob, Issue 134 (October)

Simba Sambo. ‘Free Radicals: Dead Revolutionaries Club’, Art South Africa, Vol. 6.3

Janson, Marten. ‘Sharlene Khan – Imagining the Cityscape’

​2007                     
Merchant, Preston. ‘Sharlene Khan: ‘It started off as me and ended up as them’, 8 February

Edblom, S. ‘Subject Matters’, Artlink, Vol 27, No. 2, June, Australia 

2006                     
Smith, K. ‘MTN New Contemporaries’, Art South Africa, Vol. 5.1, Spring, pp.68-69

2005                     
Pichon, S. ‘Visions de l’Afrique du Sud’, Bordeaux 7, 21 September, Bordeaux , pp.11

Talotta, J. ‘Picking Up the Pace of the Art World’, Business Day Art, July, pp.4-5, Johannesburg

2004                     
Yorke, Z. ‘The ID of South African Art’, Art South Africa

Van den Ende, J. ‘Identity: Maak Kennis Met de Hedendaagse Zuid-Afrikaanse Kunst’. Amstersdam

Gule, K. ‘Sharlene Khan’ in Perryer, S. (ed.) 10 Years, 100 Artists, Cape Town: Bell-Roberts

Rubin, N. ‘Blurred Visions’, Art South Africa, Vol.03, Issue: 02, Cape Town: Bell-Roberts

Mofokeng, L. ‘Face Value’, Sunday Times (Metro supplement), 5 September, pp.14, Johannesburg

2003                    
Ryan, M. ‘Murals Cheer Up Durban Station’, The Mercury, 5 February, pp.6, Durban

Marschall, S. Community Murals in South Africa, pp.137-140, Pretoria: University of South Africa

Metrobeat Reporter. ‘Mural Magic’, Metrobeat, September/October, pp.12, Durban

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2001                     
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1999                     
Naidu, K. ‘Art-Stopping Stuff’, Inside UDW, August/September, pp. 4, Durban

Maharaj, N. ‘Murals Helps Ward off the Hospital Blues’, Post, 26-27 May, Durban

1998                    
Naidu, K. ‘UDW Scores Two Abe Bailey Fellows’, Inside UDW, October/November, pp.4, Durban