CV

Solo Exhibitions

• 2025 – Mending A Kitchen Table, August House Gallery (Johannesburg, South Africa)
• 2024 – Things I Found Nelle Viscere, The Point of Order (Johannesburg, South Africa)
• 2024 – Things I Found Nelle Viscere, Museo di Geografia (Padua, Italy)
• 2024 – Things I Found Nelle Viscere, Biblioteca di Vobarno (Vobarno, Italy)

Group Exhibitions

• 2026 – The Last Straw: From Needle Point to Infinity Point, curated by Li Edelkoort, VIVIERS, and Philip Fimmano; Nuru Showroom (Cape Town, South Africa)
• 2025 – Salon Vanguard, August House Gallery (Johannesburg, South Africa)
• 2024 – The Myth Of A Woman, Ellis House Gallery (Johannesburg, South Africa)
• 2024 – From Root To Route, August House (Johannesburg, South Africa)
• 2023 – Pingyao Photography Festival (Pingyao, China)
• 2023 – Quanzhou Photography Biennale (Quanzhou, China)
• 2019 – Know This Place?, KZNSA Gallery (Durban, South Africa)
• 2019 – Sister Outsider, Community ZA Gallery (Durban, South Africa)
• 2015 – Image[s] Fragile[s], La Box Gallerie (Reunion Island)
• 2010 – Martiensson Prize Exhibition, Museum Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa)
• 2010 – New Work, Main Street Life (Johannesburg, South Africa)
• 2008 – I Was Younger Then, I’m Older Than That Now, Park Gallery (Johannesburg, South Africa)

Residencies & Workshops

• 2024: Selected for the Womxn To Watch Award, a three month residency at August House (Johannesburg, South Africa), culminating in a solo exhibition in August 2025.
• 2020- 2021: Selected as a participant in for the KZN Film Commission/Urban Vision Slate Funding For Feature Film Development, with the original screenplay IGGANG (One year screenwriting workshop).
• 2020: Selected as a participant for the Durban Film Mart Jumpstart Script Lab with the original screenplay, The Missionaries. The Script Lab was part of the Durban International Film Festival in partnership with Produire Au Sud, and Festival de 3 Continents (One week script lab).

Conferences, Panel Discussions, Interviews

• 2025: Presenter at the GALA (Global Academy of Liberal Arts) Online Conference. Paper presented: Attuning To Aesthesis: Reparative Artistic Meditations on The Kitchen Table, Communion, Food, And Love.
• 2025: Presenter and facilitator of the creative writing workshop “Performing ‘Things I Found Nelle Viscere’: Using Art And Creative Writing To Promote Plurilingualism” , for students and lecturers of the Language Department at the University of Ca’ Foscari Venice.
• 2024/2025: Presenter and facilitator of the dialogue workshop “Things I Found Nelle Visere“, for students of the Local Development masters course at the University of Padua.
• 2024: Presenter at the GALA (Global Academy of Liberal Arts) conference, How Can The Liberal Arts Help A World in Crisis? Paper presented: The Hi-Stories Of whitenoisewhitegirl: Unravelling A Colonial Blueprint. Hosted by Bath Spa University in Bath, England.
• 2024: Interview with TOLD online magazine: The Uncomfortable, Constant, And Necessary Work Of Decolonization in Padua, Italy.
• 2024: Things I Found Nelle Viscere: Un Dialogo Con Camilla Pontiggia, Prof. Andrea Pase E Prof. Tania Rossetto. Public dialogue hosted by the Museo Di Geografia in Padua, Italy.
• 2024: Thinking Through Alternative Forms of Knowing, Being, Doing, And Resisting: A Conversation Between Prof. Mariasole Pepa And Camilla Pontiggia. Public dialogue hosted by the Museo Di Geografia in Padua, Italy.
• 2022: Presenter at the WSOA postgraduate conference, Art Matters: Inherited Histories And The Politics of Mapping. Paper presented: BAD MATHS TAXI (and other border stories). Hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand at The Point of Order in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• 2022: Presenter and facilitator of an embodied creative writing workshop with students of the Fine Arts honours programme at the University of the Witwatersrand.
• 2020: Online interview and roundtable discussion with the winners of the 2019 Global Lift-Off Network: First Time Filmmaker Sessions, and the festival programmers.

Prizes & Awards

• 2025 – People’s Choice Award winner at Contra Fair (Johannesburg)
• 2025 – Tierney Photography Fellowship finalist and Special Mention Awardee for the photographic series, Communion.
• 2024 – Recipient of the Womxn To Watch Award (residency and solo show)
• 2023 – Recipient of the National Arts Council (NAC) Scholarship award.
• 2022 – Recipient of the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust (OMT) Scholarship award.
• 2021 – Recipient of the Arts and Culture Trust (ACT) Scholarship award.
• 2021 – Recipient of the Arts Research Africa (ARA) Scholarship award.
• RISE: Black Ocean (Documentary):
  • 2020 – Nominated for Best Post-Production at Global Lift-Off Network’s 2020 Season Awards
  • 2019 – Official Winner of the Global Lift-Off Network: First Time Filmmaker Sessions
• 2010 – Selected for Martiensson Prize competition and exhibition at Museum Africa, Johannesburg.
• 2010 – Recipient of the Giovanna Millner Scholarship for Distinguished Work in Fine Arts and History of Art award.

Screenings

• RISE: Black Ocean (Documentary):
  • 2020: Lift-Off Los Angeles Film Festival, Raleigh Studios (Hollywood, USA)
  • 2020: Lift-Off UK Sessions Film Festival, Pinewood Studios (Buckinghamshire, England)
  • 2020: Classics In The Park Film Festival, Akola Boni Park (Accra, Ghana)

Education

• 2025: MAFA (with distinction), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2010: BFA (Hon, with distinction), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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