Tracey Rose is born in 1974 in Durban, South Africa. She attends the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in Fine Arts where she is obtain her B.A. in 1996. She teaches at Vaal Triangle Technikon, Vanderbijl Park, South Africa and at the University of the Witwatersrand. In February and March 2001 she is artist-in-residence in Cape Town at the South African National Gallery where she develops her work for the Venice Biennale 2001 curated by Harald Szeemann. Tracey Rose is represented in the US by Christian Haye of The Project.

Born in Triangle, Zimbabwe 19th November 1964. In 1985 Scott obtained a National Higher Diploma in Fine Arts Natal Technikon. Scott currently teaches the fashion and Textile design Program. Durban University of Technology.  
Scott has participated in both group and solo exhibitions in South Africa.
lees@dut.ac.za

Zolani Siphungela was born in 1983 in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. From 2007 to 2009 he attended the Walter Sisulu University in East London where he studied towards a diploma in fine art. In 2010 he moved to Cape Town and in 2011 became the second recipient of the Worldart artist’s residency programme. In June the same year he had his first solo exhibition at the Worldart gallery.

This painting is from a series that deals with exploitation in Africa and particularly with the issue of using children as soldiers.

Nathaniel Stern (USA / South Africa) is an experimental installation and video artist, net.artist, printmaker and writer. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from interactive and immersive environments, mixed reality art and online interventions, to digital and traditional printmaking, latex and concrete sculpture. He’s won many awards, fellowships, commissions and residencies between South Africa, America, and all over Europe. Nathaniel holds a design degree from Cornell University, studio-based Masters in art from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (NYU), and written PhD from Trinity College Dublin. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and is currently finishing a book on interactive art to be published by Gylphi Press in mid-2012. Nathaniel has held solo exhibitions at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johnson Museum of Art, Museum of Wisconsin Art, Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, University of the Witwatersrand, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and several commercial and experimental galleries throughout the US, South Africa and Europe. His work has been shown at festivals, galleries and museums internationally, including the Venice Biennale, Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, International Symposium for Electronic Art, Transmediale, South African National Gallery, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, New Forms Festival, Haggerty Museum, Sasol Art Museum, International Print Center New York, Milwaukee Art Museum, Modern and Contemporary Art Center and Grahamstown National Arts Festival. Public collections include the Johannesburg Art Gallery, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media (Cornell University), turbulence.org, Contemporary Irish Art Society, and the Universities of South Africa and the Witwatersrand; he is in private collections all over the world.
http://nathanielstern.com

Johan Thom (b 1976, South Africa) is a contemporary visual artist, currently living and working in London. Well known for his performances, videos and video installations Thom often subjects the body to extremes in a quest to map its ongoing transformation as part of the material world. His works are both enigmatic and playful, subverting preconceived notions about identity, the body, politics and knowledge.The result is a provocative and often darkly humorous exploration of the material relationship between art, subjectivity, knowledge and the body. My work concerns materiality, meaning how we communicate through materials & how, in turn, this influences our understanding of ourselves and the world we inhabit.  I wish to suggest that materiality may be understood as a conceptual framework through which we may rethink the function and form(s) of art. For example, Charles Darwin may be considered the father of material thought (perhaps along with such figures as Friedrich Nietzsche and Niels Bohr). I understand the world as essentially a violent place with rare moments of poetic clarity punctuating the otherwise aimless timelines of our existence. I am for art, the unexpected, rupture, excitement, emotion and real experiences. I believe we can critically evaluate and make sense of these experiences only by carefully observing the exact manner in which they link the body, the mind and the material world as part of a singular, performative plane.(J. Thom, 2011)
www.johanthom.com

Born in Windhoek, Namibia in 1972.  Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. At the core of much of Hentie van der Merwe’s work is the body: its power, vulnerability, sexuality, objectification; its memory and its concealment; its capacity for violence or intimacy; the body as it exists or is represented publicly and privately, symbolically and commercially. And central to his process is a rummaging through archives from which he roots out details: reflections on predominantly the masculine body, followed by the recontextualisation of that which is uncovered. Van der Merwe’s work also engages a biographical perspective: exploring his own relationship to his historical context, having grown up in an Afrikaans family in then South West Africa, and the perceptions of (assumed/prescribed) masculinity that accompanied that cultural environment."  (Tracy Murinik in Ten Years, 100 Artists, 2004)

Maria van Rooyen is a South African artist who lives and works in Polokwane. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from Unisa. Her work explores issues of victimhood and displacement. Her innovative and visually striking use of layered rubbings of coins personally significant or historically linked to the subject of the individual work has drawn much favourable comment in recent years. Maria van Rooyen has participated in a number of group exhibitions as well as having several solo shows and being represented in private and institutional galleries nationally.
http://www.mariavanrooyen.com

Ina van Zyl was born in Ceres, Western Cape in 1971. She currently lives and work in Amsterdam She has participated in several group and sole exhibitions including in Schaamstukken / Shame Pieces, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (cat.); Jeanne Oosting Prijs, Gemeentemuseum Maassluis;  Walk - Don’t Run, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam; La peinture à fleur de peau, Institut Néerlandais, Paris (cat.); Ina van Zyl, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht (cat.).
www.inavanzyl.com

Minnette Vári was born in 1968 in Pretoria, South Africa. She now lives in Johannesburg. As Kendell Geers observes in a catalogue essay published in 2004 by Kunstmuseum Lucerne, “Minnette Vári has in her lifetime witnessed the fall of apartheid and all its structures, followed by the new democracy.” In response to this history, Vári has written a history of herself in relation to this trajectory, one that attempts to recover what is lost, to give shape and voice to forgotten or erased memories. Her work conflates self and history, examining how identity arises out of the traumatic past. In her videos and drawings, Vári frequently depicts her own body enduring a disfiguring metamorphosis – she merges with and emerges from nature as well as from the concrete architecture of modern cities. The female “protagonist” of her video works is sometimes archetypal and sometimes spectral, a persona who ingests and is ingested by time.