SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The Sea is History, outdoor sculptures, Boschendal x Brundyn Art, Cape Town, South Africa, 2024–2025
Mmoloki wa mehopolo: Breaking Bread with a Wanderer, Boschendal x Brundyn Art, Cape Town, South Africa, 2024
Shall you Return Everything, but the Burden, Rautenstrauch Joest Museum, Cologne, Germany, 2023
Mmoloki wa mehopolo: Breaking Bread with a Wanderer, Brundyn Arts and Culture, Cape Town, South Africa, 2023
Ternary Memories of Yesterday, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark, 2023
Haufi Nyana? I’ve Come to Take you Home, FOAM, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2023
Staging Memories, Grand Prix Images Vevey 2021/2022, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland, 2022
Leave the light when you leave for good, Georgian House Museum, Bristol, UK, 2022
What Are You Leaving Behind?, ROSEGALLERY, Santa Monica, USA, 2022
The Stories We Tell, George Bizos Gallery, Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2020–2021
Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography: Lebohang Kganye, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria, 2019
a ppr oc he: Lebohang Kganye, Le Molière, Paris, France, 2019
Mohlokomedi wa Tora, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa, 2018
Tell Tale, Market Photo Workshop Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2018
Focus: African Perspectives, Armory Show, New York, USA, 2016
Ke Lefa Laka, Market Photo Workshop Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2013
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2024–2025
David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive, Traveling Exhibition, Yale University Art Gallery, New Heaven, USA, 2025
Photography Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, 2024–2025
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2024
Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland, 2024
Echoes Memory, RAY International Triennial of Photography, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt, Germany, 2024
EXPOSED, Torino Foto Festival, Torino, Italy, 2024
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, Traveling Exhibition,
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt, Germany, 2024
Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK, 2024
20 Years of the Verbund Collection, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria, 2024
A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography, Traveling Exhibition, Wereld Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2024
As We Rise: Photography from The Black Atlantic, Traveling Exhibition, Dalhousie Gallerie, Halifax, Canada, 2024
David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive, Traveling Exhibition, Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain, 2024
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023–2024
I Miss Myself The Most, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2023–2024
New acquisitions by the Photography Committee, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France, 2023–2024
David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive, Traveling Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA, 2023–2024
À partir d’elle, des artistes el leur mère, Le BAL, Paris, France, 2023–2024
I Am Not What You See Of Me, La Fondation Francès, Clichy, France, 2023–2024
Mickalene Thomas / Portrait of an Unlikely Space, Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut, USA, 2023–2024
Dancing in the Light, The Wedge Collection, MOCA Toronto, Canada, 2023–2024
A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography, Traveling Exhibition, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2023–2024
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023
Foggy Island, Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2023
Memory is the Seamstress, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE, 2023
Rooms with a View. Aby Warburg, Florence and the Laboratory of Images, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy, 2023
Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, USA, 2023
Trace – Formations of Likeness, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 2023
The Struggle of Memory – Deutsche Bank Collection, Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany, 2023
Book_Spaces, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, Germany, 2023
Tell Me What You Remember: Sue Williamson and Lebohang Kganye, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA, 2023
As We Rise: Photography from The Black Atlantic, Traveling Exhibition,
The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2023
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA, 2023The Power of My Hands, Traveling Exhibition, Museu Nacional de História Natural, Luanda, Angola, 2023
MAST Photography Grant 2023, Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy, 2023
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022–2023
OZANGÉ, Bienal de Fotografía Africana, Malaga, Spain, 2022–2023
Words Create Images, 5th International Biennale of Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco, 2022–2023
Family Affairs. Family in Current Photography, Traveling Exhibition, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany, 2022–2023
Motherhood, Syker Vorwerk Contemporary Art Center, Bremen, Germany, 2022–2023
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022
Into the Light, South African Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2022
As We Rise: Photography from The Black Atlantic, Traveling Exhibition, The Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2022
The Power of My Hands – Afrique(s) artises femmes, Travelling exhibition, SOMETHING Art Space, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, 2022
The Breath of the Ancestors, Congo Biennale, Kinshasa, Congo, 2022
Currency: Photography Beyond Capture, Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany, 2022
Shifting Dialogues: Photography from the Walther Collection, K21 Kunstsammlung, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2022
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021
On the Moon and on the Earth, make way for the dreamers!, Fotographia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2021
Family Affairs. Family in Current Photography, Traveling Exhibition, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany, 2021
Portraits in Dialogue: South African Contemporary Photography, OCT Boxes Art Museum, Foshan City, China, 2021
Sites of Memory, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, USA, 2021
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020–2021
The Power of My Hands, Traveling Exhibition, Africa 2020 season, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France, 2020–2021
Pass It On. Private Stories, Public Stories, FOTODOK, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2020–2021
Beyond the Sky, Film exhibition, Toni Rembe Freedom Theatre, MoAD, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2020–2021
Nouvelles icônes, effigies de sel et d’or, FRAC Réunion, Saint-Paul, Reunion Island, 2020–2021
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020
Thuis/Home, Paper Biennial, Museum Rijswijk, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2020
Unexpected, Festival Images Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland, 2020
Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize Exhibition, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Portugal, 2020
Afterglow, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan, 2020
Alpha Crucis – Contemporary African Art, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway, 2020
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019–2020
Crossing Night: Regional Identities x Global Context, MOCAD, Detroit, USA, 2019–2020
Africa State of Mind, Traveling Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK, 2019–2020
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019
Future Genealogies, Tales from the Equatorial Line, La Biennale de Lubumbashi VI, Lubumbashi, Congo, 2019
The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada, 2019
CODA Paper Art 2019, CODA Paper Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands, 2019
Africa State of Mind, Traveling Exhibition,
Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, USA, 2019
Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK, 2019
Who’s Looking at the Family, Now?, Photo50, London Art Fair, London, UK, 2019
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018–2019
Sans Tambour, Ni Trompette, Traveling Exhibition, Cent ans de Guerres, Faux Mouvement, Metz, France, 2018–2019
The bricks that build a home, Migratie Museum, The Hague, Netherlands, 2018–2019
Remembrance, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, USA, 2018–2019
Africa is No Island, MACAAL, Marrakech, Morocco, 2018–2019
Recent Histories, Contemporary African Photography and Video Art from The Walther Collection, Traveling Exhibition, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, NL, 2018–2019
L’Afrique n’est pas une île, Fondation Zinsou, Cotonou, Benin, 2018–2019
Not the Usual Suspects, IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 2018–2019
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018
Re*creation, Fotograf Festival #8, Fotograf Gallery, Prague, Czech, 2018
Africa State of Mind, Traveling Exhibition, New Art Exchange, Nottingham UK, 2018
Tell freedom, by all means necessary, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands, 2018
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017—2018
Being Her(e): Meditations on African Femininities, Traveling Exhibition, Galeria do Banco Económico, Luanda, Angola, 2017–2018
Sans tambour ni trompette – Cent ans de guerres, Traveling Exhibition, Le Parvis centre d'art, Parvis, France, 2017–2018
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017
Being Her(e): Meditations on African Femininities, Six Mountains on Her Back: (Re)-reading African Feminisms Colloquium, Traveling Exhibition, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 2017
Atomic Peace: Searching for Level Ground During a Spiritual Emergency, Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2017
Being Her(e): Meditations on African Femininities, !Kaura: Contemporary Art From Africa, Traveling Exhibition, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2017
Recent Histories, Contemporary African Photography and Video Art, Traveling Exhibition, Walther Collection, Ulm, Germany, 2017
Les Territoires du Corps, Video Programme, Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris, France, 2017
Le jour qui vient, AFRICA NOW, Galerie des Galeries, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France, 2017
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016
Give me Yesterday, Fondazione Prada Osservatorio, Milan, Italy, 2016
Studio Bamako, Kehrer Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2016
Recent Histories, New Photography from Africa, Traveling Exhibition, Walther Collection,
Project Space, New York, USA, 2016
L’Autre Continent, Artistes, Femmes, Africaines, Musèum du Havre, Le Havre, France, 2016
Cities and Memory, Photo Biennale, Brandts Museum, Odense, Denmark, 2016
KIN, HANGAR Centro de Investigação Artística, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015
Telling Time, Bamako Encounters Biennale of African Photography, Bamako, Mali, 2015
The View From Here, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK, 2015
Trek, Following Journeys, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 2015
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014
Young ’14, Bag Factory, Fordsburg, South Africa, 2014
My Joburg: Short Change, Traveling Exhibition,
Market Photo Workshop Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2014
Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden, Germany, 2014–2013
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013
Sculptural Premise, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 2013
Apartheid and After, Huis Marsielle, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2013
Photoville, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, USA, 2013
My Joburg, Traveling Exhibition,
Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden, Germany, 2013
La Maison Rouge Gallery, Paris, France, 2013
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012
Rememory, William Goodenough House, London, UK, 2012
Happily Never After, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 2012
TALKS & SYMPOSIUMS
Artist Talk: Lebohang Kganye, Martin Parr Foundation, London, 2024
Offprint London: Talk with Lebohang Kganye, moderated by Valentine Umansky, Tate Modern, London, 2024
Black Archival Imagination seminar, In Conversation with Lebohang Kganye, moderated by Serubiri Moses, Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, 2024
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize: Talk series, Lebohang Kganye, moderated by Catherine Wood, Photographer’s Gallery, London, 2024
Seminar with Lebohang Kganye, Kunsthistorischen Institut in Florence, 2023
Research Meets Archive: Artist Meets Archive symposium, A Conversation with Sophie-Charlotte Opitz and Lebohang Kganye, Rheinisches Bildarchiv im Historischen Archiv, Cologne, 2023
Curators in Conversation: Tell Me What You Remember, A Conversation with Sue Williamson, Lebohang Kganye, moderated by Emma Lewis, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, 2023
Fotokroniek series: Talk with Lebohang Kganye, moderated by Dymphie Braun, Pakhuis de Zwijger x Foam, Amsterdam, 2023
The Body and Us. Body Politics Panel: We Do/ Are Photography symposium, Lucia Halder, Lebohang Kganye and Sophie-Charlotte Opitz, Cologne, 2022
CONVERSATIONS: Lebohang Kganye with Nathalie Herschdorfer, Photo Elysée x Images Vevey, Vevey, 2022
African Photography: The Ethics of Looking and Collecting in the Age of Restitution, Speaker at Online Symposium, Columbia University and University of Virgina, November 2022
Fowler Talks: The African Art in Venice Forum, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Online, April 2022
A Gen[d]erative Inquiry: Women Leading in the African Creative Sector, A Conversation with Ayana V.Jackson, Lebohang Kganye, Laetitia Ky, Raquel van Haver, moderated by Georgiana Ward-Booth and Janine Sytsma, African Art Venice Forum, Venice, April 2022
Beyond the Sky, A Conversation with Leila Weefur, Lebohang Kganye and Yo-Yo Gonthier, moderated by Yomna Osman, MoAD, Online, February 2022
Documentary Futures: New Ecologies, Science and Aesthetics, Speaker at Online Symposium, European Centre for Documentary Research, June 2021
Fast Forward: How Do Women Work, Conference, Tate Modern, London, 2019
Speaking with ghosts: Hauntology, memory, nostalgia and other ways of engaging with past/present/future, SAVAH Conference, Cape Town, 2019
Creative Dialogue: Art on Our Mind, Talk with Lebohang Kganye moderated by Sharlene Khan, The Point of Order, Johannesburg, 2019
Images and (Auto-)Biographical Frontier in African Studies, Workshop, NYU Abu Dhabi, 2019
Images of Africa, Freefall FORUM, A Conversation with Renée Mussai, Lebohang Kganye, Marie-Ann Yemsi, Ruth Ossai, moderated by Helen Jennings, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, 2018
Images and Democracy: Photography and Shaping Contemporary South African Culture, A Convesration with Lebohang Kganye and Lekgetho Makola, moderated by Sean Jakobs, Open Society Foundation, New York, 2018
The Gathering, Symposium, Naivasha, 2017
Unseen Living Room, Artist Talk: Lebohang Kganye with Zanele Muholi, Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam, 2016
In Conversation with David Goldblatt, moderated by Lebohang Kganye and Biko Molobye, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, 2011
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, Shortlisted, London, UK, 2024
Artist Meets Archives Residency, Cologne, Germany, 2022–2023
Foam Paul Huf Award, Winner, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2022
Grand Prix Images Vevey, Winner, Vevey, Switzerland, 2021/2022
Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, Visual Arts, Finalist, Geneva, Switzerland, 2020
Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, Recipient, Porto, Portugal, 2020
Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography, Finalist, Jerusalem, Israel, 2020
Camera Austria Award, Winner, Austria, Vienna, 2019
Pro Helvetia Artist Residency, Geneva, Switzerland, 2018
Rise Art Prize, Global Artist of the Year Award, Winner, London, United Kingdom, 2018
Sasol New Signatures Award, Winner, Pretoria, South Africa, 2017
Bamako Encounters, Coup de Couer Award, Jury Prize, Recipient, Bamako, Mali, 2015
Tierney Fellowship, Market Photo Workshop, Recipient, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2012
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Eschborn, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, USA
Collection du Centre National des Artes Plastiques, Paris, France
Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
Frac Réunion, Reúnion, France
Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art, Geneva, Switzerland
Getty Museum, LA, USA
Harry David Art Collection, Athens, Greece
JP Morgan, Chase Art Collection, New York, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Museum of Modern Art Paris, France
Saastamoinen Foundation Collection, Espoo, Finland
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA
Verbund Collection, Vienna, Austria
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Walther Collection, Ulm, Germany
Wedge Collection, Toronto, Canada