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Born in 1982 in Mbabane, Swaziland, Mntambo lives in Johannesburg. She graduated with a Master’s in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, in 2007.

Material Value, a solo exhibition of her work was shown at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (2017). Mntambo won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art in 2011, for which she produced the national travelling exhibition Faena.

She has had seven solo shows at Stevenson Cape Town and Johannesburg (2007-17) and two at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (2013-15).

Mntambo featured in the inaugural exhibitions at the Norval Foundation, other notable group exhibitions include Matereality at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2020); Ngoma: Art and Cosmology at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (2019); IncarNations: African Art as Philosophy at the BOZAR Centre for Arts, Brussels (2019); Made Visible: Contemporary South African Fashion and Identity at th Nandipha Mntambo - Artnet VIP