Dineo Seshee Bopape was born in 1981 in Polokwane.

She graduated at De Ateliers in Amsterdam (2007) and completed an MFA at Columbia University, New York (2010). She was the 2008 winner of the MTN New Contemporaries Award and the recipient of Columbia University’s Toby Fund Award (2010). Recent solo shows have taken place in Norway, Amsterdam and Naples in addition to her solo shows at Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg which took place in 2013, 2011 and 2010.

Recent group shows include “Ruffnek Constructivists”, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2014); Chroma, Stevenson, Cape Town (2014); “My Joburg”, La maison rouge, Paris; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany (2013); “The Beautyful Ones”, Nola Judin, Berlin (2012); “Fiction as Fiction (Or, A Ninth Johannesburg Biennale)”, Stevenson, Cape Town (2012); “About Menocchio we know many things”, Bétonsalon Centre d’art et de recherche, Paris (2012); “If A Tree…”, Stevenson, Johannesburg (2012); “The Next Generation”, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, “Mine – A selection of films” by SA artists, Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre, Dubai (2012). Bopape was included in the Marrakech Biennale (2016) and has been awarded residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Fountainhead Residency in Miami, the Sober & Lonely Institute in Johannesburg and the Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland.