Photo by Akona Kenqu Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi was born in New York. As a child she moved to Harare and finally, Johannesburg. She is an artist who divides her time between studio, video, performance and navigating the field of art as social practice. Her work has been shown in various institutions such as the ifa Gallery in Berlin, the South London Gallery and Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rio de Janeiro, Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg and the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. Nkosi obtained her BA from Harvard University and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Nkosi has recently received the fifteenth Tollman Award. She will have her first solo show in March 2020 with Stevenson Gallery in Johannesburg.