2014
Master of Fine Art, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa.
2009
Bachelor of Art in Fine Art, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
ZION, Performa 17 Biennial, New York, NY, USA.
Lefa la Ntate, Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery,University of the Free State, South Africa.
Lefa la Ntate, Tatham Art Gallery Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Lefa la Ntate, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2016
Lefa la Ntate, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Lefa la Ntate, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Lefa la Ntate, IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
Adam Aronson Fine Arts Center, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, USA.
Bophirima, Tyburn Gallery, London, UK.
ENDABENI, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2015
KE KGOMO YA MOSHATE, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria. (C)
Mohau Modisakeng, Big Pond Artworks, Munich, Germany.
2014
Mohau Modisakeng, Chavonnes Battery Museum Cape Town, South Africa. (C)
Ditaola, Brundyn + Cape Town, South Africa. (C)
Loop Barcelona, Hotel Catalonia Ramblas, Barcelona, Spain.
Volta NY, Brundyn +, New York, USA.
2013
Inzilo, Video Art Powered by Samsung Special Project, FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2012
Untitled: Sasol New Signatures award for 2011, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa.
2010
Ibutho, Side Gallery, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa.
2017
South African Pavilion, 57th International Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. (with Candice Breitz)
Two., We Buy Gold, Brooklyn NY, USA. (with Dineo Seshee Bopape)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
Summertime, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Regards Croisés, in association with AKAA Art Fair, Voies Off Festival, Arles, France.
Another Antipodes Exhibition: Urban Axis, PS Art Space, Fremantle WA, Australia.
Le jour qui vient, curated by Marie-Ann Yemsi, Galerie des Galeries, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France.
2016
Lagos Photo Festival, Lagos, Nigeria.
Re(as)sisting Narratives, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Fünf Seen Film Festival, Starnberg, Germany.
62nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
Prefer Life, Reydan Weiss Collection, The Weserburg, Bremen, Germany.
2015
Broken English, Tyburn Gallery, London, UK.
DIS/PLACE, MoCADA, Museum of Contemporary Diasporan Arts, New York, USA.
Foreign Bodies, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town, South Africa.
What Remains is Tomorrow, South African Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
Nirox Winter Sculpture Fair, Nirox Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa.
La Fabrique De L'Homme Moderne, in resonance with Lyon Biennale, La Fabric, Salomon Foundation for Contemporary Art, Annecy, France.
I am not a man and a brother? I am not a woman and a sister, Archer Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
AFIRIperFOMA, Lagos, Nigeria.
Joburg Art, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Unseen photofair, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2014
Anyway, the Wind Blows, Brundyn + Gonsalves +, Cape Town, South Africa.
Here Today, The Old Sorting Office, London, UK.
Performing Portraiture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Fearless Renewal, MC Theater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Ukukhumula, GIPCA Live Art Festival, City Hall, Cape Town, South Africa.
Barongwa: Blindspot, Grahamstown Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Personal/Political, 21C Museum, Louisville, USA.
Loop Art Fair, Silencio Club, Paris, France.
Brave New World...20 Years of Democracy, IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town, USA.
Art Against the Wall: An Artist Response to Civil Wars, Gallery 72,Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
!Kauru 2014: Rerouting Dialogue 1994- 2014, Unisa Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa.
2013
Ceci n’est pas une Summer Show, Brundyn + Gonsalves +, Cape Town, South Africa.
Personal and Political, 21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
Biennale International d’Art Contemporain, Fort de France, Martinique, France.
Am I not a Man and a Brother? Am I not a Woman and a Sister, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, USA.
Inzilo, Video Art Powered by Samsung special project, FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa.
VOLTA NY, New York, USA.
2012
Sera, Master of Fine Art exhibition, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa.
Material Representation, Brundyn + Gonsalves, Cape Town, South Africa.
Dak’Art, Dakar Biennale, Senegal. Africa.
Uneveness Exhibition, National Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Newsfeed: Anonymity & Social Media in African Revolutions and Beyond, MoCADA, New York, USA.
Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
Exuberance Project Exhibition, Mandela Rhodes Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. (C)
Implemented Environments, Brundyn + Gonsalves, Cape Town, South Africa.
Are Fanon, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa.
Greatest Hits, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
MTN New Contemporaries, Durban, South Africa.
2011
Implemented Environments, Brundyn + Gonsalves, Cape Town, South Africa. (C)
2010
S A RE FANON, with Lerato Bereng, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa.
This is Our Time, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa. (C)
Greatest Hits, AVA, Cape Town, South Africa.
MTN New Contemporarie, Durban, South Africa.
Spier Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa.
2009
Ugufa Unezindaba, Graduate exhibition, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa.
2016
KE KGOMO YA MOSHATE, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, 2016. (forthcoming)
2014
Mohau Modisakeng, Ditaola, Brundyn+, Cape Town, South Africa, 2014. (C)
2012
Salley, R.J. (coe.), The Exuberance Project, Mandela Rhodes Gallery in association with Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town, South Africa, 2012. (C)
2011
Leibbrandt, Tim, Mauchan, Fiona (Coe.), Implemented Environments, Brundyn +, Cape Town, South Africa, 2011. (C)
Hecker, Judith B. (ed.), Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now: Prints from the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, 2011.
2010
Boslan, Joost (coe.), Forex- This is Our Time, Stevenson, South Africa, 2010. (C)
2014
Nirox Foundation Residency, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Segera Retreat and the Zeitz Foundation Residency, Segera, Kenya.
2013
Visiting Artist, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA.
2011
IAAB International Artists Exchange Program, Basel, Switzerland.
2010
Spier Residency Award, Gyeonggi Creation Center, South Korea.
2017
Yiga, Eugene, Q&A with Mohau Modisakeng about Lefa La Ntate exhibition, bizcommunity.com, 15 June 2017
Sargent, Antwaun, A Powerful Piece of the Venice Biennale Comes to Brooklyn, creators.vice.com, 5 June 2017
Keller, Yelena, “We Buy Gold” Brings a Piece of the Venice Biennale to Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, artsy.net, 3 June 2017
Sargent, Antwaun, A South African Artist’s Self-Portraits Excavate the Traumas of Apartheid, newyorker.com, 27 May 2017
Jayawardane, M Neelika, Venice Biennale: African pavilions and the politics of space, mg.co.za, 19 May 2017
Azimi, Roxana, A la Biennale de Venise, les pavillons africains portent l’art au cœur des plaies, lemonde.fr, 18 May 2017
Gotthardt, Alexa, The Venice Biennale’s 11 Best Pavilions, artsy.net, 10 May 2017
Mercier, Jeanne, Mohau Modisakeng: Le Temps Suspendu, Diptyk Magazine, No. 37, February-March 2017, pp. 52-61
Collison, Lee-Shay, An Introduction to Mohau Modisakeng, South Africa’s Phenomenal Artist, theculturetrip.com, 1 February 2017
2016
Bowen, Ric, I can’t help but make connections…, CCQ Issue 10, issuu.com, August 2016.
Kinsman, Houghton, Where the Sun Sets, frieze.com, 27 July 2016.
Straton, Alan, Standard Bank Young Artist Winner, 2016: Mohau Modisakeng – LEFA LA NTATE, mype.co.za, 25 July 2016.
Gamedze, Thuli, Peripheral Perspectives and the Question of the Land: Mohau Modisakeng’s ‘Lefa La Ntate’, artthrob.co.za, 21 July 2016
McAinsh, Gillian, Nuanced, Profound Multimedia Offering, dispatchlive.co.za, 5 July 2016
Thurman, Chris, Half Art: Grahamstown guarantees astonishing moments, BDLive.co.za, 8 July 2016
Okorokwo, Lily, African Art Guide: Don’t Miss Tyburn Gallery’s Exhibition of Mohau Modisakeng, theglowingcolours.com, 29th May 2016
Gbadamosi, Nosmot, South Africa’s violent history in haunting artworks, edition.cnn.com, 10th June 2016
Hancock, Colin & Page, Thomas, Is this the new home of contemporary art, edition.cnn.com, 31st May 2016
Seymour, Tom, The Post-Apartheid State of South Africa, British Journal of Photography, 27 May 2016
——, 30 Emerging Artists to Watch This Spring, artsy.net, 13 April 2016.
Klawansky, Gillian, Abstract made real, destinyman.com, 23rd February 2016.
2015
Brüggeller, Monika, Individualität des Kollektiven, Kronen Zeitung Nr. 19.923, 10th October 2015. p.49.
Coussonnet, Clelia, 56th Venice Biennale | An Uneven African Presence, anotherafrica.net, 18th May 2015.
Jelcic, Ivona, Zeremonie der Zerrissenheit, Tiroler Tageszeitung Mittwoch, 09th September 2015. p.15.
Kampmann, Matthias, Kritischer Hochglanz, artmagazine.cc, 8th October 2015.
Leiman, Layla, FNB JoburgArtFair: Mohau Modisakeng | The Persona is Political, 10and5.com, 18th August 2015.
Mann, Dave, Meet the Standard Bank Young Artist Award Winners for 2016, 10and5.com, 29th October 2015.
Nikolussi-Salzer, Dorothea, Hochglanzfotos und Kohlehaufen, Der Standard, Mittwoch 23, September 2015. p.29.
Pernegger, Karin, Ke Kgomo Ya Moshate, Indaba. Das SADOCC-Magazin für das Südliche Afrika, October 2015. p.27.
Puchner, Alexandra Marlene, Feinsinnige Vergangenheitsbewältigung, 20er Nr. 168, September 2015. p.29.
Roberts, Oliver, Mohau Modisakeng's self-portraits will blow you away with their strange beauty, Sunday Times Lifestyle Magazine, 26th November 2015.
Schiestl, Helmut, Mohau Modisakeng im Kunstraum Innsbruck, provinnsbruck.at, 03rd Decmeber 2015.
Tylio, Malibongwe, Q&A: Mohau Modisakeng, visi.co.za, 13th November 2015.
——, Mohau Modisakeng in Innsbruck, kunstmarkt.com, 03 December 2015.
——, Mohau Modisakeng on winning the Standard Bank Young Artist award, southcoastnews.co.za, 14th November 2015.
——, Mohau Modisakeng Wins 2016 Standard Bank Young Artist Award, theglowingcolours.com, 03rd November 2015.
——, Standard Bank Young Artist Awards 2016, creativefeel.co.za, 03rd November 2015.
——, Mohau Modisakeng Wins the 2016 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art, tecaa.org, 29th October 2015.
——, 2016 Standard Bank Young Artist Award Winners Announced, artthrob.co.za, 29th October 2015.
——, Standard Bank Young Artist Award winners, artlink.co.za, 28th October 2015.
2014
Joja, Athi Mongezeleli, Feathers unfurl, steel surrounds, mailandguardian.com, 4th July 2014.
Jolly, Lucinda, Throwing the Bones, Cape Times, iol.co.za, 04th July 2014.
Kinsman, Houghton, Next Chapter: Mohau Modisakeng on investigating the impact of cultural histories on contemporary society, anotherafrica.net, 15th September 2014.
Mqombothi, Liduduma'lingani, Artist Mohau Modisakeng: Probing Subliminal Violence, africasacountry.com, 26th June 2014.
O’Toole, Sean, Mohau Modisakeng, Frieze.com, Issue 165, September 2014.
Soudien, Amie, Ditaola: Mohau Modisakeng at Brundyn, artthrob.co.za, May 2014.
----, A Moment with Artist Mohau Modisakeng, nichluxe.com, July 2014.
—, The Quiet Violence of Dreams, City Press, news24.com, 12th July 2014.
2013
Tyilo, Malibongwe, Meet Mohau, visi.co.za, 27th September 2013.
2011
Dodd Alexandra, Spectras of Violence, f11magazine.com, 28th May 2011.
2015
Standard Bank, Young Artist for Visual Arts.
2013
Video Art Powered by Samsung, FNB, Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2011
Winner, SASOL New Signatures Art Competition, Pretoria, South Africa.
2010
Finalist, MTN New Contemporaries Awards, Durban, South Africa.
2009
Merrill Lynch Scholarship, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa.
Piet Viljoen Private Collection.
Wendy Fisher Private Collection.
Emile Stipp Private Collection.
Manuel de Santaren Private Collection.
Salsali Private Museum.
The Ekard Private Collection.
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
21C Museum Hotel, Kentucky, USA.
University of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa.
New Church Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.
Shanti Art Collection.
Modern Forms.
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada.