Zanele Muholi was born in Umlazi (South Africa). In 2002, Muholi co-founded the Forum for Empowerment of Women (FEW). In 2009 they were awarded their Master of Fine Arts degree from Ryerson University in Toronto and founded the INKANYISO collective in the same year.
Muholi has exhibited at institutions such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Brooklyn Museum, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Tate London, and the Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town. Muholi’s work was presented at the Central Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, with the traveling exhibition “Somnyama Ngonyama” recently opening at the Seattle Art Museum in July 2019. Their work has been exhibited at Documenta 13; the South African Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale; and the 29th São Paulo Biennale.
As a visual activist and photographer, Prof. Muholi is best known for advocacy work supporting the rights of LGBTQI communities in South Africa, training a younger generation of photographers and building an archive of testimonials for and with the LGBTQI community, using photography as a tool to document and tell their stories. As part of the "Somnyama Ngonyama" series, Muholi denounces social injustice and racism. In November 2020 the Tate Modern will present the first major UK survey of the visual activist’s work and the exhibition will be in collaboration with the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, Gropius Bau, Berlin and Bildmuseet at Umeå University.
Muholi is also an Honorary Professor at the University of the Arts/Hochschule der Künste Bremen and has won numerous awards, including Book of the Year for “Somnyama Ngonyama” during the prestigious Kraszna-Krausz Awards (2019), Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from French Embassy (2017), the ICP Infinity Award for Documentary and Photojournalism (2016), Africa'Sout! Courage and Creativity Award (2016), and the Prince Claus Foundation Laureate (2013). Muholi was also shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2015).
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