Muholi is a visual activist. She cofounded the Forum for Empowerment of Women (FEW) in 2002, and in 2009 founded Inkanyiso (www.inkanyiso.org), a forum for queer and visual (activist) media. She continues to train and co-facilitates photography workshops for young women in the townships. Muholi studied Advanced Photography at the Market Photo Workshop in Newtown, Johannesburg, and in 2009 completed an MFA: Documentary Media at Ryerson University, Toronto. She is an honorary professor at the University of the Arts Bremen. Her Faces and Phases series has shown at dOCUMENTA (13); Venice Biennale, the South African Pavilion, 2013; and São Paulo Biennale, 2010. Solo exhibitions have taken place at institutions including Mead Art Museum, Massachusetts; Gallatin Galleries, New York; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Akershus Kunstsenter, Norway; Einsteinhaus, Ulm; Schwules Museum, Berlin; Williams College 145 Museum of Art, Massachusetts; and Casa Africa, Las Palmas. Recent group shows include African Art Against the State, Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, 2016; After Eden / Après Eden: The Walther Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris, 2015; Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein; Guggenheim Bilbao, 2015; The Order of Things: Photography from the Walther Collection, The Walther Collection, Ulm, 2014; After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, 2014; and Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 2014. She participated in Berlin Biennale, 2016.
