DADA KHANYISA

DADA KHANYISA

Dada Khanyisa was born in 1991 in Umzimkhulu, KwaZulu-Natal. In 2016 they completed a BAFA at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. In 2017, they were commissioned to produce a 35-metre mural painting at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg as a way to give the historic site contemporary appeal. Khanyisa won the Simon Gerson Prize at UCT in 2016. As a merit winner at the SA Taxi Art Awards in 2015, their work featured on 10 taxis traversing the main roads of South Africa. They participated in a Fountainhead residency in Miami in 2018.

Dada Khanyisa, Silo District, 2020, HI-STORYTELLING, Exhibition view Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg 2021