Kemang Wa Lehulere is a Johannesburg-based artist who works across drawing, collage, installation, sculpture, and performance. His practice circles around questions of memory, history, and loss — often drawing on archival material, found objects, and personal and collective narratives of South Africa's past and present. Wa Lehulere has exhibited widely internationally, including at the Serpentine Gallery in London and Documenta 14. His Ampersand Fellowship year was an important moment of international engagement for a practice that has since gained significant global recognition.
The Ampersand Fellowship
Since 1997, the Ampersand Foundation has sent more than 300 South African visual artists to a funded residency in Tribeca, New York — connecting them with one of the world's most dynamic art ecosystems.