PERSONAL DETAILS
Education
2002 - 2006 PhD Candidate in Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam School for
Cultural Analysis (ASCA), Faculty of Humanities of the University of
Amsterdam. My PhD dissertation - when broadly defined - focuses on urban
African youth and their relationship with hip-hop culture and technology. I
am conducting six case studies focusing on six cities: Accra, Algiers, Cape
Town, Dakar, Dar Es Salaam, and Nairobi.
1999 - 2001 De Ateliers, Post-graduate Art Institute (M.A. equivalent),
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1994 - 1995 Two years towards a three year National Diploma in Graphic
design, Peninsula Technicon, Cape Town, South Africa
1993 - Matric, St.Andrew`s High School, Elsies River, Cape Town, South
Africa
Exhibitions
Selected group shows:
2004 RF 2004, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucaresti, Romania
RRF, Bergen Electronic Arts Centre Bergen, Norway
RRF, New Media Art Festival Bangkok, Thailand
2003 Guess Who, Stedelijk Museum Zwolle, Zwolle, The Netherlands
Afrika Hier en Nu, Centrum Beeldende Kust, Emmen, The Netherlands
2002 The 4th Biennale of The Pan-African Circle of Artists, Lagos, Nigeria
Interactive Arts Festival.01, Kwang Fong Gallery, California Lutheran
University, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2000 (W)interface, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Portrait Africa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
1999 Staking Claims, The Granary, Cape Town, South Africa
Project Conflux, Luxembourg/Cape Town/Paris
Postcards from South Africa, Axis Gallery, New York, USA
Oos Wes Tuis Bes, Oudshoorn, South Africa.
1998 Childhood, Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
!Xoe site-specific, Ibis art centre, Nieu-Bethesda, South Africa
Solo shows:
2002 Bad for Your Health/Wrong Colour, www.vmcaa.com/maluka, Virtual Museum of Contemporary African ArtThe Realness, Gallerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
2001 Hard Living (an ethnomethodological approach), de Ateliers, Amsterdam
2000 Maluka 2000, de Twee Wezen, Enkhuizen, The Netherlands
1998 The (unstoppable) rapist, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South
Africa
1997 Melanin Millennium, Mau-Mau Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Residencies
1998 Thami Mnyele Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997 Robben Island Museum, Robben Island, South Africa