Biography
Steve Bandoma was born in 1981 in Kinshasa, DRC. After graduating with a degree in Fine Art from Academies des Beaux-Arts, he moved to South
Africa in 2005. Bandoma continues to interrogate and engage with the politics of post-colonial Africa through his participation in numerous group
exhibitions both locally and internationally.
He has won several arts awards and fellowships including the Art Buzz (USA) 2009 Book Collection with “Honourable Mention”, a ProHelvetia
residency fellowship programme in Zurich in 2009 as well as the “Visa pour la création” Afrique et Caraïbes en créations hosted in 2009 by
Culturesfrance at Cité Internationale des Arts in partnership with Mains D’oeuvres in Paris.
He has exhibited at Focus10 Contemporary Art Africa at Basel Art held in July 2010 in Switzerland and has recently been selected for the Space,
Currencies in Contemporary African Art exhibition as fringe event of the 2010 World Cup at Museum Africa in Johannesburg and CONTINENT ON
THE MOOVE-UNLOCKING CULTURE hosted by ASA Project at Frize Art Fair in London in 2011. Bandoma co-curated the very successful AMANI Art Festival in Cape Town, he
had recently a grant for scholarship on Master in Public Spheres at ECAV Ecole cantonale d'Art du Valais in Switzerland
