Gabrielle Goliath

Gabrielle Goliath (b.1983) lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. Through the ritual, sonic and social encounters of her practice, Gabrielle Goliath attends (and tends) to histories and present-day conditions of differentially valued life, reaffirming ways in which black, brown, femme and queer practices perform the world differently. Her work troubles a racial/sexual regime of representation, calling for meetings in and across difference, on terms of complicity, relation and love.

She has received several awards, including the Future Generation Art Prize – Special Prize (2019), Standard Bank Young Artist Award (2019), and Institut Français, Afrique en créations Prize at the Bamako Biennale (2017). Her work is held in collections such as MoMA, Tate Modern, Kunsthalle Zürich, Mudam Luxembourg, Frac Bretagne, and Iziko South African National Gallery. She lives and works in Johannesburg.