Mary Sibande

Mary Sibande was born in Barberton, South Africa. She is a sculptor, photographer, and visual artist with a Diploma in Fine Arts from the Witwatersrand Technical College in Johannesburg and obtained an Honours degree from the University of Johannesburg in 2007. Sibande is interested primarily in questions of the body and how to reclaim the black female body in post-colonial and post-apartheid South Africa. She often works through an alter-ego, Sophie, a sculptural figure who traverses the uncanny valleys of liminal space. Sophie is personal. Her visage is modelled largely after the artist herself, and she draws on the history of the women in Sibande’s family, but Sophie is also symbolic, a figure that stands in to speak for femininity, blackness, labour, post-coloniality, and communities on the margin as a whole. Sophie moves in between history and contemporary life.

She won the Helgaard Steyn Prize for Sculpture in 2021, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Arts Award in 2017; and the 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Arts. Sibande has participated in several residencies, fellowships and tenures, including the 2018-2019 Virginia C. Gildersleeve Professorship at Barnard College at Columbia University in New York, USA and the MAC/ VAL Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val- de-Marne in Paris, France in 2013. In 2022, a solo exhibition of Sibande’s works was presented bythe Musée d’art Contemporain de Lyon in Lyon, France, titled The Red Ventriloquist. Sibande is co-founder of Occupying the Gallery, a project that aims to transform gallery spaces into makeshift open studios for mentorship and artistic development.

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Roses are red... and so am I

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Bathyal

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Sophie leisurely playing tennis

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