Wa Lehulere has a BA Fine Arts degree from the University of the Witwatersrand. Solo exhibitions have taken place at Gasworks, London, 2015; Lombard Freid Projects, New York, 2013; the Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg, 2011; and the Association of Visual Arts, Cape Town, 2009; in addition to Stevenson gallery, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Notable group exhibitions include African Odysseys, Le Brass Cultural Centre of Forest, 2015; Berlin Biennale, 2014; Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 2014; New Museum Triennal: The Ungovernables, New York, 2012; Lyon Biennale: A Terrible Beauty is Born, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, 2011; and When Your Lips Are My Ears, Our Bodies Become Radios, Kunsthalle Bern; Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, 2010. Wa Lehulere was the winner of the inaugural Spier Contemporary Award in 2007, the MTN New Contemporaries Award in 2010, and the Tollman Award for the Visual Arts in 2012; he was one of two young artists awarded the Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel in 2013, won the first International Tiberius Art Award Dresden in 2014 and was the Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Arts in 2015. He is Deutsche Bank’s ‘Artist of the Year’ 2017. Wa Lehulere was a co-founder of the Gugulective, 2006, an artist-led collective based in Cape Town, and a founding member of the Center for Historical Reenactments in Johannesburg.
