Biographies
678 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0123540 | biography | Francis Wilson | 1939-2022 | – |
| B-0122658 | biography | Molefe Pheto | – | ✓ |
| B-0122132 | biography | Wim Botha | 1974 | ✓ |
| B-0121912 | biography | Ari Sitas | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0121773 | biography | Tracy Payne | 1965 | ✓ |
| B-0121736 | biography | Randolph Hartzenberg | 1948 | – |
| B-0121724 | biography | Jo Ractliffe | 1961 | ✓ |
| B-0121599 | biography | Berni Searle | 1964 | ✓ |
| B-0121589 | biography | Mary Sibande | 1982 | – |
| B-0121549 | biography | Zanele Muholi | 1972 | – |
| B-0121280 | biography | Wilfrid Edward Cooper | 1926-2004 | – |
| B-0099557 | biography | Kay Hassan | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0098967 | biography | Esther Mahlangu | 1935 | ✓ |
| B-0098966 | biography | Nicholas Hlobo | 1975 | ✓ |
| B-0095602 | biography | Leo Marquard | 1897-1974 | – |
Francis Wilson
Francis Aylmer Hunter Wilson is the oldest son of the anthropologists, Monica and Godfrey Wilson. He was born in May 1939 in Livingstone,…
Molefe Pheto
Molefe Pheto grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg. As a talented young boy who displayed many interests in the arts, he was sent to London to…
Wim Botha
Wim Botha is a contemporary artist working mainly in the mediums of sculpture and installation. He was born in Pretoria in 1974 and grew up…
Ari Sitas
Ari Sitas (b.1952) is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South…
Tracy Payne
Tracy Payne’s hyper real paintings evoke a sense of sublime sexuality in the art of constraint, even if she is painting a flower. She…
Randolph Hartzenberg
Randolph Hartzenberg is a Cape Town-based artist who works with painting, printmaking, installation, video and performance. Through his…
Jo Ractliffe
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob MODUS OPERANDI Jo Ractliffe is a documentary photographer who…
Berni Searle
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob MODUS OPERANDI When Berni Searle was asked by the Brooklyn Museum…
Mary Sibande
This biography was written by Artthrob in collaboration with SAHO. MODUS OPERANDI Mary Sibande - a sculptor, photographer, and visual…
Zanele Muholi
This biography was written by Artthrob in collaboration with SAHO. Zanele Muholi is a photographer and visual activist based in…
Wilfrid Edward Cooper
Wilfrid Edward Cooper was born on 22 May 1926 in Observatory, a suburb of Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) and lived in…
Kay Hassan
Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother brewed traditional beer at a shebeen, defying apartheid…
Esther Mahlangu
Esther Mahlangu was born in 1935 on a farm outside Middleburg, in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children:…
Nicholas Hlobo
Born in 1975 in Cape Town, Nicholas Hlobo grew up in a Xhosa family and attended university at the former Technikon Witwatersrand. Though…
Leo Marquard
Leopold ‘Leo’ Marquard was born on 15 June 1897 in Winburg in the Orange Free State. His father was Reverend J. J. T. Marquard of the Dutch…