Lebohang Kganye,
visual artist and photographer, from Johannesburg, South Africa, where she currently lives and works.
Lebohang Kganye 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’s New Photography 2025. She is the recipient of the 2024 Deutsche Börse Foundation Prize for her solo exhibition Haufi Nyana? I’ve Come to Take you Home, which took place at Foam (2023). Other notable recent awards include ICP Infinity Award, 2025, Foam Paul Huf Award, 2022, Grand Prix Images Vevey, 2021/22 and Camera Austria Award, 2019.
The artist has recently exhibited at FOMU, Le BAL, Tate Modern, the Albertina Museum, the Barnes Foundation, and others. In 2022, Kganye exhibited in the South African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Kganye’s work is held in collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Getty Museum, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.