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Born: Durban. South Africa Lives: Johannesburg, South Africa

Education PhD (Art) Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom (2014) MA (Fine Art) University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa (2006) MA (Fine Art) University of Durban-Westville Durban, South Africa (2002) BA (Fine Art) University of Durban-Westville Durban, South Africa (1998)
Solo Exhibitions 2013: Nervous Conditions, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 5th December 2011: Other Stories, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa, 31 March 2009: Other Stories, Right on the Rim Gallery, Arts on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa (B)lack and What I look like, What I feel like, Polokwane Art Museum, Polokwane, South Africa 2008: (B)lack, Association for the Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa What I look like, What I feel like, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa 2007: (B)lack, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA), Durban, South Africa Walking the Line, BAT Centre, Durban, South Africa, 5 � 27 October 2006: 'Previously Disadvantaged', Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa 2004: 'Walking The Line', Wits Downstairs Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa 2003: 'Two for One Rand',. Goethe Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa 2001: 'Durban At Work', KwaMuhle Museum, Durban, South Africa
Group Exhibitions 2014: Literary, Polokwane Art Museum, Polokwane, South Africa ARTchipelago Artists Exhibition, Institut Francais Maurice, Mauritius 2013: Rememory, William Goodenough College, London, UK 2012: Happily Never After, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Staff/Stuff, Unisa Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa 2011: It�s all Chinese to Me � How Abstract Can One Be?, After the Butcher, Berlin, Germany Figures of Speech, �Beyond Languages Project�, Jozi Art Lab, Arts on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa Crossing Boundaries: Contemporary Art and Artists from South Africa, The Gallery � Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar 2010: Samsara, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa The New Order Beauty, Palette Art Gallery, Delhi, India, 25 January � 28 February, Curator: Vibha Galhotra 2009: Art from Southern Africa, Deutsche Gesellschaft f�r Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH Head Office, Eschborn, Germany Bring mir ein Gras vom Rand der Bildebene, Atelier Frankfurt, Germany 2008: Urban Concerns, BildMuseet, Umea Living Legacy, Kizo Gallery, Durban, South Africa Modern Fabrics, Bag Factory Artist�s Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa 2007: The Hourglass Project: Personal Vocabulary, House Museum and Resource Centre of African American Art, Atlanta, USA 2006: MTN New Contemporaries Award Johannesburg Art Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa 2005: Feb Group Show International 2005 Bayer ABS Limited Gallery Gujerat, India Les Arts De La Coexistence? Migrationculturelles (MC2a) Bordeaux, France South African Artists on Residency Mairie Chateau Pujols, France Les Arts De La Coexistence? ? Les Arts Deniers Paris, France 2004: The ID of South African Artists Fortis CircusTheatre Scheveningen, Holland Community (Re)production Gallerie Ancienne Couronne Biel-Bienne, Switzerland 10 Years, 100 Artists Bell-Roberts Gallery Cape Town, South Africa 2003: State of Being Bag Factory Johannesburg, South Africa
Bibliography 2010: Asfour, F. Introduction in Asfour, F. (ed.) What I look like, What I feel like, exhibition catalogue Ligaga, D. Negotiating Identity Through the Gendered and Racialised body of a South African Artist, in Asfour, F. (ed.) What I look like, What I feel like, exhibition catalogue, pp.26-36, Johannesburg: Sharlene Khan Tadjo, V. Being the Subject. Sharlene Khan interviewed by Veronique Tadjo, in Asfour, F. (ed.) What I look like, What I feel like, exhibition catalogue, pp.12-18, Johannesburg: Sharlene Khan 2009: NY Arts. Social Masquerade � Sharlene Khan, Summer Voices 2009, April, USA 2008: Kumalo-Valentine, Z. Painter with Purpose: Sharlene Khan, Marie Claire, March Asfour, F. Cities in Transformation � Interview with Sharlene Khan, Amkenah Magazine, Nr. 9, Alexandria Mdanda, S. Sharlene Khan at Gallery Momo, Artthrob, Issue 134 (October) Simba Sambo. Free Radicals: Dead Revolutionaries Club, Art South Africa, Vol. 6.3 Janson, Marten. Sharlene Khan � Imagining the Cityscape 2007: Merchant, Preston. Sharlene Khan: �It started off as me and ended up as them�, 8 February 2005: Talotta, J Picking Up the Pace of the Art World Business Day Art 2004: Rubin, N Blurred Visions Art South Africa Gule, K Sharlene Khan 10 Years, 100 Artists Mofokeng, L Face Value Sunday Times
Grants/Awards 2013: Nominee (Women in Painting). South African Women in Arts Mbokodo Awards 2012: Nominee (Women in Painting). South African Women in Arts Mbokodo Awards 2011: Commonwealth Scholarship 2011 for three year PhD study in Arts at Goldsmiths (University of London) South African National Arts Council Overseas Scholarship 2010: Duke University Feminist Theory Workshop Travel Award 2010 2009: South African National Arts Council funding for project What I look like, What I feel like catalogue 2008: South African National Arts Council funding for project �What I look like, What I feel like� 2007: South African National Arts Council funding for project �(B)lack� 2006: South African National Arts Council funding for project �Previously Disadvantaged� 2005: South African National Arts Council funding for project �Walking the Line�
Projects CURATORIAL PROJECTS: 2013: Rememory, William Goodenough College, London, UK, Curators: Sharlene Khan, Fouad Asfour and Imara Rolston 2012: Happily Never After, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, Curator: Sharlene Khan 2008: Esikhaleni Spatial Practices, 1st Joburg Art Fringe exhibition, Africa Cultural Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, Co-curator and co-coordinator (as part of Dead Revolutionaries Club) with Claudia Shneider 2004: Coordinator and co-curator of The ID of South African Artists Exhibition � an exhibition of 108 South African artworks at the Fortis CircusTheatre in Scheveningen, Amsterdam, Holland, Curators: Sharlene Khan, William Wells and Janine van den Ende One of 15 curators chosen for the exhibition-in-a-book concept initiated by Bell-Roberts Publishing entitled 10 Years. 100 Artists (editor: Sophie Perryer), Cape Town, South Africa WORKSHOPS/RESIDENCIES: 2014: Khoj/Africa Art Centre Residency, Delhi, India pARTage International Artists Workshop, Mauritius 2009: Rockefeller Bellagio Centre Creative Arts Residency, Italy 2005: Nouison International Residency Programme, Pujols, France 2003: Thupelo International Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa International Residency, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2002: Bag Factory (Fordsburg Artists Studios) International Residency Programme, Johannesburg, South Africa Caversham Press Residency Programme - �Rituals�, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Publications 2014: Khan, S. Speaking Truth to Power: Censorship and Critical Creativity in South Africa, in Petresin-Bachelez, N., Bobin, V. and Silva, B. (eds.) Manifesta Journal #17: Future(s) of Cohabitation, Amsterdam: Manifesta Foundation, pp. 59-63 2012: Khan, S. Becoming � The Art of Everyday Performativity in Stemburger, C.M. (ed.) Alterating Conditions: Performing Performance Art in South Africa, exhibition catalogue, Vienna: artandtheory.net, pp. 16-24 Khan, S. Who am I? Portrait of the life and art of Dumile Feni, Review of documentary Zwelidumile (dir. Ramadan Suleman), Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies, Vol. 3 (1), pp. 100-105 Khan, S. And There He Built an Altar to God, in Bila, V. and Waller, M. (eds.) Authentic Woodcarver, Polokwane: Timbila and Polokwane Art Museum, pp. 33-49 2011: Khan, S. But What�s All Dis Here Talkin �Bout?, Artthrob, March 2008: Khan, S. Gatekeeping Africa, Springerin, Vienna, No. 1/2009, "Art on Demand" 2007: Khan, S. Gatekeeping Africa, Artlink, Vol 27, No. 2 (June), Australia Khan, S. Mokgabudi Amos Letsoalo, Double 07, exhibition catalogue, Polokwane: Polokwane Art Museum 2006: Khan, S. Aluta Continua: Doing it for Daddy, Art South Africa, April, Bell-Roberts Publishing: Cape Town 2004: Khan, S. The African Label, Bidoun Magazine Khan, S. and Koloane, D. Rethinking Identity, The ID of South African Artists, exhibition catalogue, Van Den Ende: Holland Khan, S. Sophie Peters, Gabisile Nkosi, Rookeya Gardee, Usha Seejarim, Berni Searle, in Perryer, S. (ed.) 10 Years, 100 Artists, Bell-Roberts Publishing: Cape Town

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