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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

Pillay, P. ‘Art is Sharlene’s Calling’, Post, 17-19 April, pp. 2, Durban

Poldner, K. Storying Durban’s Art Scene, Unpublished Master’s Dissertation, Amsterdam: Vrijestaat Universiteit

2001                     
Smart, C. ‘Workers’, The Daily News, 13 June, pp.5, Durban

Mercury Reporter. ‘Worker’s Day’, The Mercury, 1 May, pp. 4, Durban

Premdev, D. ‘Durban at Work’, Sunday Tribune (Sunday Magazine), 22 April, pp.3, Durban

Pather, S. ‘Sharlene’s Eye for Detail Reveals Slice of Life Often Overlooked’. The Leader, pp.11, 4 May, Durban

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

Exhibitions curated by Sharlene Khan

2022 
Interiorities, Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) Syyposium exhibition, The Point of Order, 28 September-2 October

2021
Afems 2021 Exhibition (online), co-curated with Nomusa Makhubu, 1-5 November

2020
Tactile Visions-Woven, Turbine Fair Art Special Project (online), 27 August-3 September

2019
Creating from the Epicentres of our Agency, co-curated with Zodwa Tutani for the African Feminism (Afems) Conference, The Point of Order Project Space, Johannesburg, 5-7 September

2018
The Mute Always Speak: A Performative Response and Voice/Over: A Shelley Barry Filmic Retrospective co-   curated with Zodwa Tutani, African Feminisms (Afems 2018) Conference, Rhodes University Fine Art Department, Makhanda, 27-29 September

2016
Reasons and its Discontents, His Majesty’s Asylum, Pop-up Gallery – 19 Hill Street, Makhanda, South Africa, Curators: Fouad Asfour and Sharlene Khan, 30 June-5 July

2013
Rememory, William Goodenough College, London, UK, 25 February-3 March, Curators: Sharlene Khan, Fouad Asfour and Imara Rolston

2012
Happily Never After, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, 2-27 July, Curator: Sharlene Khan

2008
Esikhaleni Spatial Practices, 1st Joburg Art Fringe exhibition, Africa Cultural Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, 14-16 March, Official Joburg Art Fair event, Co-curator and co-coordinator (as part of Dead Revolutionaries Club) with Claudia Shneider

2004
The ID of South African Artists Exhibition – Coordinator and co-curator:  an exhibition of 108 South African artworks at the Fortis Circus Theatre in Scheveningen, Amsterdam, Holland, December 03 – April 04, Curators: Sharlene Khan, William Wells and Janine van den Ende 10 Years. 100 Artists (editor: Sophie Perryer) – one of 15 curators chosen for the exhibition-in-a-book concept initiated by Bell-Roberts Publishing, Cape Town, South Africa

Art on Our Mind

Art on our Mind is a NRF Thutuka funded research project that focuses on South African women-of-colour creatives, initiated by Prof. Sharlene Khan, visual artist and Associate Professor at the Visual Arts department at the Wits School of Arts. The research team is made up of under- and postgraduate student volunteers from the art department.

Art on our Mind aims to elevate the status and stature of South African women-of-colour creatives, and through them, inspire a new generation. The Art on our Mind research project aims to generate a public archive of primary information and documentation alongside existing resources.

Afems

African Feminisms (Afems) Conference is a yearly Humanities and Social Science African feminist conference hosted collaboratively by Rhodes University’s Prof Lynda Gichanda Spencer (and her UCAPI research project), based at the Department of Literary Studies in English, and Prof Sharlene Khan (with her Art on our Mind research project), from the Wits University Fine Art Department.

The conference has taken place in 2017 and 2018 at Rhodes University in Makhanda and at Wits University in Johannesburg in 2019, is scheduled to take place at the University of Cape Town and online in 2021, and returns to Rhodes University for its fifth year anniversary in 2022.

Afems provides a yearly platform for  ideas and current research by Humanities and Social Science students and established scholars, creatives and activists, particularly highlighting Rhodes University’s Departments of Literary Studies in English and Wits University’s Fine Arts collaborations around African feminist engagements in literature, popular culture, the visual arts, art history, performance and visual culture at large.

Afems Website

Decolonial AestheSis Creative Lab

The Decolonial AestheSis Creative Lab invites students from all years and departments to share experimental in-field practices through decolonial AestheSis dialogues with experienced practitioners. The Creative Lab challenges facilitators to reflect on their in-field experimental practices across their professional work: literature scholar/screen writer Prof Bhekizizwe Peterson; US American journalist/documentary filmmaker Jon Alpert; Argentine composer Laura Andel and Indian visual artist Vibha Galhotra; visual artist Dr Sharlene Khan and writer/editor Fouad Asfour.

Students from all years and departments are invited to share experimental in-field practices through decolonial AestheSis dialogues with experienced practitioners. Students will collectively experiment on their future (and experienced) professional practices and imagine creative methodologies in various spaces, including artistic practices in visual arts, music, drama and performance, radio and journalism, film and TV, creative writing, teaching methodologies, cultural activism, community work, language and publishing, and so on.

The Decolonial AestheSis Creative Lab is based on selection through an application process. Students can be at any level of their undergraduate and postgraduate studies. The cost of the Creative Lab is R200 per student (any student not able to afford this fee can write to Dr Khan). Students who are chosen for the Creative Lab must be able to attend the full seven-day lab, from morning to evening sessions. Part of the challenge, and fun of this lab, will be to participate and be exposed to creativity in an inter-disciplinary manner.

Black Feminist Killjoy Reading Group

If you are interested in exploring fictional and non-fictional cultural practices of women killjoys of colour from around the globe – in order to think through our own lives, this reading group is for you. We meet every second Friday in the Department of Fine Art at Wits University. Friends from outside our department and field are most welcome (for the Rhodes University BFK group please email us for details as well). For readings email Prof Sharlene Khan: sharlene.khan@wits.ac.za

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

2022

Khan, S.; Asfour, F. and Skeyi-Tutani, Z (2022) ‘Black Feminist Killjoy Reading Group: Informal Reading Groups as Spaces for Epistemic Becoming’, Transformation in Higher Education, Volume 7 (0).
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2021

Khan, S. ‘Thinking Through Black Feminist Creative Theorisation through the Postcolonial Masquerades of South African Visual Artists Mary Sibande and Senzeni Marasela’, in Marco, D. Willoughby-Herard, T. and Zegeye, A. (eds.) Sasinda Futhi Siselapha: Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty-Five years since 1994, Africa World Press
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Khan, S. ‘A Sense of Belonging – Natasha Becker’s Black Feminist Radical Love Curatorial Practice and the Return of Communities’ in Richter, D and Reckitt, H. (eds). Feminist Curating Issue, OnCurating [online and print journal]
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Khan, S. ‘Imagining an African Press’, in Camps, Y, Moritz Grünke, M.; Pascale Obolo, P.; Pichler, M.; Tabapsi, P. (eds). Decolonizing Art Book Fairs: Publishing Practices from the South(s), Berlin: Afrikadaa and Mosaïques [online and print journal]
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Khan, S. ‘Unorthodox Autobiographies’ in Mabaso, N. and Mistry, J. (ed.) Decolonial Propositions, OnCurating, Issue 49 [online and print journal]
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2020

Khan, S. (ed.) Doing it for Daddy: Ten Years On… , Johannesburg: Pole Pole Press [Symposium Proceedings]

Khan, S; Ntombela, N; Makhubu, N; Mdluli, S; Mabaso, N and Skeyi-Tutani; Z. ‘Curating as World-Making – An Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Sharlene Khan, Nontobeko Ntombela, Nomusa Makhubu, Same Mdluli, Nkule Mabaso, Zodwa Skeyi-Tutani’, Journal of African Cultural Studies, Issue (1).
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Khan, S. ‘We-All-Fall-Down: Thinking Through Lines of Proximity and Ubuntu as Decolonizing Praxis in South African Museum Re-Presentations’, in Jang, S. (ed.) What Do Museums Change? Art and Democracy, Seoul: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, ISBN 978-89-6303-248-93600, pp 222-243.
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Khan, S. ‘When Love Chooses Us’, in Bettòlo, A. (ed.) Salon. pp.6-8, Italy: MuseGallery [print artist catalogue]
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2019

Khan, S. (ed.) When the moon waxes red: Negotiating Subjective Terrain as an ‘Inside-Outsider’, an ‘Outside- Insider’, Johannesburg: Pole Pole Press [print artist book] ISBN: 978-0-620-83817-7; Book launches: African Feminisms (Afems) Conference 2019.

Khan, S. ‘When Silences Speak: Gender Performativity in the Visual Practice of Reshma Chhiba’, in Ntombela, N. and Chhiba, R. (eds.), The Two Talking Yonis, Johannesburg, pps.51-71 [print artist book – ISBN: 978-0-620-82867-3].

2018

Khan, S and Asfour, F. ‘Whitespeak: How Race Works in South African Art Criticism Texts to Maintain the Arts as the Property of Whiteness’, Kraehe, A.M.; Gaztambide-Fernandez, R, Carpenter II, S.B. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education, Cham: Palgrave McMillan/Springer International Publishing, pps:187-204 [print and digital book – ISBN: 978-3-319-65255-9, doi.org: 10.1007/978-3-319-65256-2].
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Khan, S. ‘Thinking through, talking back: creative theorisation as sites of praxis-theory’, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, pp. Vol. 32:2. 1-10 [print and online].
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Khan, S. ‘Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria by Chika-Okeke Agulu, 2015, Duke University Press’, Journal of Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, Volume 4 (1), pps. 76-81 [print and online – doi: 10.1080/23277408.2018.1443622].
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2017

Khan, S. and Asfour, F. (eds.) I Make Art. Johannesburg: Sharlene Khan [print artist book – ISBN: 978-0-620-63754-1; Book launches: African Feminisms (Afems) Colloquium – Rhodes University, Makhanda, July 2017; Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) Conference, Wits University, Johannesburg, March 2018.
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Khan, S. ‘When the moon waxes red’, in Gosine, A. (ed.) Small Axe: Caribbean Journal of Criticism. Vol 21, No.2:53, July [print and online].

Diallo, A.; Khan, S.; Jayawardena, M.N. and Sarr, F. ‘Teaching to Empower’, ContemporaryAnd: Platform for International Art from African Perspectives, Special: Documenta 14, Print Edition No.7 &, Berlin, pg. 16-18.
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Khan, S. ‘Under the Influence… of ‘Covering Sarah: Exorcising the Trauma of Colonialism and Racism’. The Conversation [online]. March
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2016

Khan, S. ‘Highlights of 2016’. The Conversation [online]. November.
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Khan, S. ‘Under the Influence… of Berni Searle’s LULL’. The Conversation [online]. November.
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Khan, S. (2016). ‘Under the Influence…of Dumile Feni’s African Guernica’, The Conversation [online]. 7 September.
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Khan. S. and Pienaar, H. ‘The Removal of Art at UCT: Interview with Sharlene Khan’. Litnet [online]. 28 April.
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Khan, S. ‘Videokunst Forderpreis Bremen 2016: Eight Questions for Sharlene Khan’. Bremen: Kusthalle Bremen.
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2015

Khan, S. ‘I Make Art – Voicing Voice, Speaking Self and Doing Criticality’, Reconstruction [Electronic], Vol. 15(1).
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Khan, S. ‘Ecologies of the Visual, Economies of Profit’, exhibition catalogue for Indian artist Vibha Galhotra’s exhibition Absur-City-Pity-Dity at Jack Shainmain Gallery, New York, October 2015. [print exhibition catalogue]

Khan, S. 2015. Postcolonial Masquerading: A Critical Analysis of the Masquerading Strategies of South African Visual Artists Anton Kannemeyer, Tracey Rose, Senzeni Marasela, Nandipha Mntambo and Mary Sibande. Unpublished thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Goldsmiths, University of London. London.
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Khan, S. ‘Speaking Things into Being as if They Were: Visualising the Unseen in the Creative Practice of Odun Orimolade’ [unpublished article].

Khan, S. ‘Episodes of Happening: Eco-conceptualism in the Artwork of Vibha Galhotra’ [unpublished article]

2014

Khan, S. ‘Speaking Truth to Power: Censorship and Critical Creativity in South Africa’, in Petresin-Bachelez, N.,Bobin, V. and Silva, B. (eds.) Manifesta Journal #17: Future(s) of Cohabitation, Amsterdam: Manifesta Foundation, pp. 59-63 [print and online arts journal].

2012

Khan, S. ‘Who am I? Portrait of the life and art of Dumile Feni, Review of documentary Zwelidumile (dir. Ramadan Suleman)’, Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies, Vol. 3(1), pp. 100-105 [print].

Khan, S. ‘‘Mam-Winnie’: Representations of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in the visual artworks of Sue Williamson, Bongi Bengu and Senzeni Marasela’ [unpublished paper].

Khan, S. ‘Becoming – The Art of Everyday Performativity’ in Stemburger, C.M. (ed.) Alterating Conditions: Performing Performance Art in South Africa, exhibition catalogue, Vienna: artandtheory.net, pp. 16-24 [print exhibition catalogue].

Khan, S. ‘There He Built an Altar to the Lord and Called on the Name of the Lord’ in Bila, V. and Waller, M. (eds.) Authentic Woodcarver, Polokwane: Timbila and Polokwane Art Museum, pp. 33-49 [print book].
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2011

Khan, S. ‘Behind Gopal Jayaraman’, Gopal J. Website [online website].
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Khan, S. ‘But What’s All Dis Here Talkin ‘Bout?’, Artthrob, March [online].

2010

Khan, S. (ed.) What I look like, What I feel like. Johannesburg: Sharlene Khan [print artist book – ISBN: 978-0-620-46450-5].
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2009

Khan, S. ‘Olly Molly’, Ecofashion World Blog, [online] 27 May.
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Khan, S. ‘From the Earth to the Moon’, Ecofashion World Blog, [online] 14 April.
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Khan, S. ‘Gatekeeping Africa’, Springerin, Vienna, No. 1/2009, “Art on Demand” [print].
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2007

Khan, S. ‘Gatekeeping Africa’, Artlink, Vol 27 (2): June, Australia [print].
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Khan, S. ‘Mokgabudi Amos Letsoalo’, Double 07, exhibition catalogue, Polokwane: Polokwane Art Museum [print exhibition catalogue].
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2006

Khan, S. ‘Aluta Continua: Doing it for Daddy’, Art South Africa, Vol 4(3), April, Bell-Roberts Publishing: Cape Town [print and online].

Khan, S. A Critical Analysis of the Iconography of Six HIV/Aids Murals from Durban and Johannesburg, in terms of Gender, Race and Class. Unpublished research report submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Master in Fine Arts. University of the Witwatersrand. Johannesburg.
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2004

Khan, S. ‘Curatorial Statement: Sharlene Khan’, in Perryer, S. (ed.) 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell-Roberts Publishing: Cape Town, 13-14 [print book – ISBN: 1868-729-877).
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Khan, S. ‘Zama Dunywa’, in Perryer, S. (ed.) 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell-Roberts Publishing: Cape Town. 102-105.
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Khan, S. ‘Rookeya Gardee’, in Perryer, S. (ed.) 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell- Roberts Publishing: Cape Town. 118-121.
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Khan, S. ‘Gabisile Nkosi’, in Perryer, S. (ed.) 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell- Roberts Publishing: Cape Town. 278-281.
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Khan, S. ‘Sophie Peters’, in Perryer, S. (ed.) 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell-Roberts Publishing: Cape Town. 286-289.
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Khan, S. ‘Berni Searle’, in Perryer, S. (ed.) 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell-Roberts Publishing: Cape Town. 334-337.
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Khan, S. ‘Usha Seejarim’, in Perryer, S. (ed.) 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell-Roberts Publishing: Cape Town. 338-341.
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Khan, S. ‘The African Label’, Bidoun Magazine [print]

Khan, S. and Koloane, D. ‘Rethinking Identity’, The ID of South African Artists, exhibition catalogue, Van Den Ende: Holland [print exhibition catalogue].
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Khan, S. (ed.) The ID of South African Artists, Van Den Ende: Holland [print exhibition book].
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Khan, S. ‘Jug and Water’, Money Funnel. Claudia Shneider, Kunsterein Recklinghausen, Rupert Walser Gallery: Germany [print exhibition catalogue].
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2003

Khan, S. A Critical Analysis of the Depiction of Women in Murals in KwaZulu-Natal, Unpublished dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Masters of Arts in Fine Arts. University of Durban Westville, Durban.
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Selected artworks by Sharlene Khan

2021-

When the moon wanes

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2014-2022

Post-Apartheid Guernica

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2022-2020

I Make Art

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2009-2022

When the moon waxes

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2011-2022

Nervous Conditions

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2011-

The Bluest Eye (aka No Place)

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2011-

Re-

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2007-2009

What I look like, What I feel like

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1999-2011

“Previously Disadvantaged”

Edward (2008)
Mixed media on canvas

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Books written by Manori Neelika Jayawardane

Jayawardene, Manori (2023) Queering the nation, querying the history of Black portraiture: Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama as a healing ritual. Art Journal. 58.
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Jayawardene, Manori (2022) “This is not the correct history”: Lacunae, Contested Narratives, and Evidentiary Images from Sri Lanka’s Civil War. Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.
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Jayawardane, Neelika & Lane, Carly (2018) Continental Drift: Black/Blak Art from South Africa and North Australia. Cairns Regional Gallery.
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Book chapters by Manori Neelika Jayawardene

Jayawardene, Manori (2022) Institutional irresponsibility: How coverups at art institutions perpetuate gender-based violence. In Lesser Violence: Volume 1. Amie Soudien (Ed). Johannesburg: MaThoko’s Books. Pp. 141-169.
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Books featuring writing by Manori Neelika Jayawardene

Smith, Ming et al (2020) Ming Smith, An Aperture Monograph. New York: Aperture.
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McGrew, Rebecca et al (2020) Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris. Pomona College Museum of Art.
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Bhimji, Zarina (2018) Zarina Bhimji: Lead White. Heni Publishing.
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Muholi, Zanele et al (2018) Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness. New York: Aperture.
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Nunn, Cedric (2015) Unsettled. Wunderhorn.
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Journal articles written by Manori Neelika Jayawardene

Jayawardane, Manori (2019) ‘The capacity-building-workshop-in-Africa hokum’^*, Journal of African Cultural Studies. 31(3): 276-280. DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2019.1630265

Other writing by Manori Neelika Jayawardene

Jayawardene, Manori (2022) “Art and the Limits of ‘Awareness’ Politics: Reflections on Guantánamo, this year’s Berlin Biennale controversy, and the artworld’s tendency for shallow political consciousness.” Art Review. 11 Nov. 2022.
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Jayawardene, Manori (2020) “Ming Smith’s Photographic Tribute to August Wilson.” Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph. Aperture: 2020.
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Jayawardene, Manori (2019) “Fashioning an ‘Image Space’ in Apartheid South Africa: Afrapix Photographers’ Collective and Agency.” Extra – a publication of Antwerp’s FotoMuseum.
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Theses by Manori Neelika Jayawardene

Jayawardene, Manori (1999) “The escape artist”. MA Thesis. Iowa State University.
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Journal publications by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2022) In search of reciprocity: Feminist challenges in Posthumanist thinking–An intellectual meditation. Agenda. 36(1): 43-53.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam (2020) The Arts in the time of pandemic. Agenda. 34(3): 148-153. DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2020.1783888.
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Govinden, Betty (2019) “Two oceans marathon” – women from the South. Agenda. 33(3): 34-41. DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2019.1680258.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2018) “Women Doing History Differently.” African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning. 2(1): 30-46.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2014) Book Review of Reading Migration and Culture: The World of East Africa Indian Literature. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. 26(1): 102-106. DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2014.897823.
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Amin, Nyna & Govinden, Betty (2014) Autobiographies, biographies and writing lives. Agenda. 28(1): 3-6.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2011) A fire that blazed in the ocean–Gandhi and the poems of Satyagraha in South Africa, 1909-1911 by Surendra Bhana and Neelima Shukla-Bhatt. Journal of Natal and Zulu History. 29: 158-161.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam (2011) Remembering “Salisbury Island”. Yesterday & Today. 6: 53-62.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam (2009) Healing the wounds of history: South African Indian writing. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. 21(1-2): 286-302. DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2009.9678322.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2009) Claiming Pandita Ramabai in an Indian Christian diasporic location in the early 20th century: spelling out the fragments of a broken geography. Migration-challenge to religious identity. 2: 113-132.

Hofmeyr, Isabel & Govinden, Betty Devarakshanam (2008) Africa/India: Culture and Circulation in the Indian Ocean. Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa. 13(2): 5-15.
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Govinden, Betty Devarakshanam (2008) The Mahatma, the text and the critic—in South Africa. Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa. 13(2): 47-62.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2003) Aziz Hassim’s “The Lotus People”. Annual Review of Islam in South Africa 6. 60-62.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (1998) ‘While she watered the morning glories’: evaluating the literary achievement of Gcina Mhlophe. African Literature Today. (21): 69-81.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (1995) Reading Back: Images of God in Pauline Smith’s “The Little Karroo”. Journal of constructive theology. 1(1): 75-90.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (1994) Women-Searching in South Africa. Journal of theology for Southern Africa. 89: 3-3.

Books by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden

Govinden, Devarakshanam (2021) The Story of Senthamani 1923-2021 – Commemorative Centenary.

Govinden, Devarakshanam (2015) 1913 Satyagraha Passive Resistance and Its Legacy. Delhi, India: Manohar Publishers & Distributors.

Govinded, Devarakshanam (2010) Reflections on Recent Writing. Lap Publishing, Germany.

Govinden, Devarakshanam (2008) Sister Outsiders: The Representation of Identity and Difference in Selected Writings by South African Indian Women. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press.

Govinden, Devarakshanam (2008) A Time of Memory reflections on recent South African Writings. Durban: Solo Collective.

Phiri, Isabel Apawo; Govinden, Devarakshanam & Nadar, Sarojini (Eds) (2002) Her Stories: Hidden Histories of Women of Faith in Africa. Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal: Cluster Publications.

Book chapters by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden

Govinden, Devarakshanam (2014) Introduction in Durban Dialogues, Indian Voice: Five South African Plays. Ashwin Singh. Aurora Metro Books.

Amin, Nyna & Govinden, Devarakshanam (2012) Sari stories: Fragmentary images of ‘Indian woman’. In Was it something I wore? DRESS IDENTITY MATERIALITY. Relebohile Moletsane, Claudia Mitchell & Ann Smith (Eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. Pp. 323-340.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam (2009) Review of Allison Drew, Between Empire and Revolution: A Life of Sidney Bunting 1873–1936. Journal of Natal and Zulu History. 27: 85-87. 10.1080/02590123.2009.11964155.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2002) ‘The Mother of African Freedom’– The Contribution of Charlotte Maxeke to the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa. In Her-stories: Hidden Histories of Women of Faith in Africa. Pietermaritzburg: Cluster. Pp. 304-326.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2000) AGAINST AN AFRICAN SKY: COOLIE DOCTOR: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. In The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Essays in Criticism. A.L. McLeod (Ed). New Delhi: Sterling. Pp. 82.

Theses by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden

Govinden, Devarakshanam (2000) Sister Outsiders: The Representation of Identity and Difference in Selected Writings by South African Indian Women. Doctoral Thesis. University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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Poetry by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden

Govinden, Devarakshanam (2022) IN MEMORIAMFOR PROFESSOR BRIJ VILASH LAL (1952-2021). Indialogs. 9: 99-101.
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