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Zwelethu Mthethwa (born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 1960) received his BFA from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, a thenÐwhites-only university he entered under special ministerial consent. He received his master's degree while on a Fulbright Scholarship to the Rochester Institute of Technology. Mthethwa has had over thirty-five international solo exhibitions and has been featured in numerous group shows, including the 2005 Venice Biennale and Snap Judgments at the International Center of Photography, New York. He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Okwui Enwezor (essay) is the dean of academic affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute and former artistic director of both Documenta XI and the second Johannesburg Biennale. He is a pioneering critic and curator. Isolde Brielmaier (interview) is a visiting assistant professor of art at Vassar College and guest professor at Barnard College/Columbia University, as well as an independent curator and writer. |