Mary Sibande

**Mary Sibande** ( bɛ dɔɣɔ la yuuni  1982)  o nyɛla ŋun nyɛ South African nucheeni tuun tumdi so ŋun be  Johannesburg. O nucheeni tuma nim nyɛla din gbaagi  binyɛra kpebu, peentin, foto nim ŋmahibu, n ti pahi binyɛra niɣimbu.

## O ni pili sham  taarihi
Sibande  nyɛla bɛ ni dɔɣi so tiŋyuli booni Barberton apartheid n be South Africa tingban ni , ka daa lee nyɛ ŋun yab'paɣa wunsi o .  O ma daa nyɛla o tolitoli yidaan paɣa,  ka o ba mi daa nyɛ ŋun be  South Africa sooje nim ni. O daa bi mi o ba saha shɛli o ni daa na nyɛ zaɣi bila, o daa ti yan baŋ o la, o daa nyɛla ŋun zoona saɣi bukaata kubu. 

## O shikuru chandi
Sibande nyɛla ŋun deegi  diploma shɛhira gbaŋ din jendi bɔhimbu yaɣili din nya Fine Arts la shikuru yuli booni  Technikon Witwatersrand yuuni  2004. O daa deegi shɛhira gbaŋ din yuli booni  B-tech degree la shikuru yuli booni  University of Johannesburg yuuni 2007.  

## Collections
Sibande tuma nim nyɛla din be yaɣa din do gbunni ŋɔ ni:
* University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
*Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
* Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
*National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC

## Exhibitions

### O konko exhibition nima

* Sophie/Elsie, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, yuuni 2021
*I came apart at the seams, Somerset House, London, yuuni 2019
* Right Now!, Stellenbosch University's Woordfees Festival, Stellenbosch University's Art Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa, yuuni 2016
* The Purple Shall Govern, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, yuuni  2014
* Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France, yuuni  2013
* The Purple Shall Govern, Grahamstown National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa, yuuni  2013
* The Purple Shall Govern, Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris, yuuni  2013
* Mary Sibande and Sophie Ntombikayise Take Central Court, Central Court, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Kansas, USA, yuuni  2012
* Long Live The Dead Queen, Inner City Johannesburg; Joburg City World Premier Annual Exhibition, Johannesburg; National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa, yuuni 2010

### Bɛ zaɣi bɔbigu  exhibition nima

* Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, Texas,yuuni  2020
*1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Somerset House, London, yuuni 2019
* 14th Curitiba International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Curitiba, Brazil, yuuni  2019
* N'GOLÁ Festival of Arts, Creation, Environment and Utopias, São Tomé e Príncipe, yuuni 2019
* FNB Art Joburg (SMAC Gallery), Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, yuuni  2019
* Ampersand Foundation Award 21 years celebration exhibition, University of Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg, South Africa, yuuni  2019
* Construction of the Possible, Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba, yuuni 2019
* Made Visible, Contemporary South African Fashion and Identity, Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, USA, yuuni  2019
* A New Humanity, Dak'Art: African Contemporary Art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal, yuuni 2018
* Extra/Ordinary, Plugin New Media Section, Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, yuuni  2018
* The Armory Show, Piers 92 & 94, New York City, USA, yuuni  2018
* In Their Own Form, Museum of Contemporary Photography(MoCP), Chicago, USA, yuuni  2018
* Shifting Boundaries: A Selection of Works showcasing South African Women Artists of the Past 100 Years, Welgemeend, Cape Town, South Africa, yuuni 2018
* Not a Single Story, Nirox Foundation Sculpture Park, Krugersdorp, South Africa, yuuni 2018
* Continental Drift: Black / black Art from South Africa and North Australia, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, Australia, yuuni 2018
* Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now), The Met Breuer, New York City, USA, yuuni 2018
* Cultural Threads, TextielMuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands, yuuni 2018
* Friends50, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, yuuni 2018
* African Mosaic: Selections from the Permanent Collection, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C, USA, yuuni  2017
* South Africa: The Art of a Nation, The British Museum, London, yuuni  2017
* All things being equal, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA), Cape Town, South Africa, yuuni 2017
* Dress Code, Gallery MOMO, Cape Town, South Africa, yuuni 2017
* 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Somerset House, London, yuuni  2017
* The Evidence of Things Not Seen, Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg, South Africa, yuuni 2017
* Another Antipodes/Urban Axis, PS Art Space, Fremantle, Australia, yuuni 2017
* Beauty and Its Beasts, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa, yuuni 2017
* Different Angels, Höhenrausch Linz, Austria, 2017
* Re(as)sisting Narratives, Framer Framed, The Netherlands, yuuni  2016

## O kpaŋmaŋ pina mini nintiɣibo

* Yuuni 2017: Smithsonian National Museum of African Arts Award
* Yuuni 2014: Johannesburg Alumni Dignitas Award
* Yuuni 2013: Standard Bank Young Artist Award
O lahi nyɛla ŋun nyɛ Smithsonian Fellow in Washington DC, a Ampersand Foundation Fellow in New York, and a Fellowship in the University of Michigan Fellowship. In 2018–19, Sibande was the Virginia C. Gildersleeve Professor at Barnard College.

## Kundivihira