Lebohang Kganye

Lebohang Kganye (b. 1990, South Africa) works with expanded photography, video and mixed media to create works that layer historiography, research, theatricality, autobiography and poetics in often sculptural installations. The artist’s family name is etymologically linked to the Sotho word for light, “kganya”; bringing light to layered postcolonial histories is an animating thread in her practice.

Kganye is featured in MoMA New Photography 2025. Her recent touring solo exhibition, Le Sale ka Kgotso, debuted at the Fotografiska, Berlin (2025), and features newly commissioned work. She is the recipient of the 2024 Deutsche Börse Foundation Prize for her solo exhibition at Foam (2023). Other notable recent awards include the ICP Infinity Award, 2025, the Foam Paul Huf Award, 2022 and the Camera Austria Award, 2019.

The artist has recently exhibited at the Albertina Museum, Tate Modern, the Art Institute of Chicago, LE BAL, the Barnes Foundation, and other notable institutions. In 2022, Kganye exhibited in the South African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Kganye’s work is held in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Getty Museum, and the Chazen Museum, among others.