SANTU MOFOKENG

1956, born Johannesburg, South Africa.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

Market Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa, Like Shifting Sand, 1990.

Market Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa, Rumours/The Bloemhof Portfolio, 1994.

NFI, Holland, Black Photo Album/ Look At Me, 1998.

Nederland Foto Instituut (NFI), Rotterdam, Holland, Chasing Shadows, 1998.

FNAC Montparnasse, France, The Black Photo Album/ Look At Me, 1999.

Workers Library, Johannesburg, Distorting Mirror/Townships Imagined, 1995.

Gertrude Posel Gallery, Wits University, South Africa, Chasing Shadows, 1997.

Nederland Foto Instituut, Rotterndam, Holland, Lunarscapes, 1998.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

Market Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa, Black Sash Human Rights Exhibition, 1989.

Zabalaza Cultural Festival, London, 1990.

University of Witwatersrand, Johnnesburg, South Africa, History Workshop Open Day Festival, 1990.

Malibongwe Women’s Conference, Amsterdam, Holland, Women’s Exhibition, 1990.

Canon Image Centre, Amsterdam, Holland, Going Home with Paul Weinberg, 1990.

Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa, AA Vita Art Now, 1991.

N.G.B.K., Berlin, Germany, Tenant Labourers, 1991.

FNAC - Mother Jones Award winners 1992" –

Light Factory Gallery, North Carolina United States of America, 1993.

Herten Fotofestival, Herten, Germany, Happy Sad Land, 1993.

Rochester, New York, Montage 1993 International Festival of the Image, 1993.

New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, In Transit, 1993.

Bamako, Mali, Recontre de la Photographie Africaine, 1994.

Market Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa, This Land is our Land, 1994.

Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts, Grahamstown, South Africa, Panoramas of Passage, 1995.

Paris, France, Assises de l'Afrique au Siege de l'Unesco, 1995.

Institut Fur Auslandsbeziehungen Gallery, Bonn, Germany, South African Photography with Peter Magubane, 1995.

Transitions: Contemporary Art from South Africa" F-Stop Gallery, Bath, U.K., 1995

Tenerife, Canary Islands, The Third International Photographic Biennale, 1995.

Guggenheim Museum, New York, In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present, 1996

Copenhagen, Denmark, Images of Africa Festival,1996.

Grahamstown, South Africa, Standard Bank National Festival of the Arts, 1996.

Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany, Colors—Contemporary Art from South Africa, 1996.

Bamako, Mali, 3rd Recontres de la Photographie Africaine, 1997.

KultuurHuset, Stockholm, Sweden, Dreams and Clouds, 1997.

Bild Museet, Umea, Sweden, Democracy's Images, 1997.

Sandton Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa, FNB Vita Awards for visual Art, 1997.

Electric Workshop, Johannesburg. South Africa, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, 1997.

Nederlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Holland, blank__ Architecture, apartheid and after, 1998.

Barbican Centre, London and Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary, Africa by Africa: A Photographic View, 1999

Area Gallery, Cape Town, A South Photographs collective exhibition, 1999.

Statement: "Landscape is the mute witness to histories and narratives" Santu Mofokeng, a storyteller of note. Mofokeng won the Ernest Cole Scholarship in 1992 and studied at the International Centre for Photography in New York. Mofokeng has returned to home soil after a years "sabbatical" in Bremen, Germany. Mofokeng held the position of researcher and documentary photographer for the Institute for Advanced Social Research for ten years at the University of the Witwatersrand. He has won many awards and fellowships in Africa, the United States and Germany. Mofokeng has shared his vision and ideas at a number of seminars, symposiums and panel discussions around the world; he has been the instigator of and collaborator with many photographic showcases.