Gabrielle Goliath
Gabrielle Goliath (b. 1983) lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. Through the ritual, sonic and social encounters of her art practice, she attends to histories and present-day conditions of differentially valued life, reaffirming ways in which black, brown, femme and queer practices of possibility perform the world differently. Goliath’s immersive, often evolving installations have been exhibited throughout South Africa and internationally. She has received numerous awards, including the Future Generation Art Prize – Special Prize (2019), the Standard Bank Young Artist Award (2019), and the Institut Français, Afrique en Créations Prize at the Bamako Biennale (2017).
Her works are in several collections, among them: MoMA New York, MUDAM Luxembourg, Kunsthalle Zurich, TATE Modern, London, Frac Bretagne, France, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, and Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg. She participated in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2024), the Sharjah 15 Biennial (2023), Jaou Photo, Tunis (2022), and the Kochi Muziris Biennale (2021).
During the 61th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2026), she has presented Elegy in the San’Antonino Church in Venice, following the cancellation of the South African Pavilion.
