George Mahashe Biography
George Mahashe was born in Bolobedu at Ga-kgapane in1982. He first practiced photography as an assistant to the local roaming photographer. He graduated with a B-tech in photography. He has worked as a lecture and tutor in photography. Commercially he worked in advertising and editorial photography for international and local publications. He has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions locally and internationally. His first solo exhibition titled “Gae Lebowa” opened in 2010 at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. In 2010 he studied South African ethnography and Approaches to culture at Witswatersrand University, consolidating his interests in anthropology and photography. Currently he is an ARC columbarium fellow at UCT reading for an (MA[FA]) researching a photographic Archive of The Lobedu  people from the 1930s


Curriculum Vitae  
Born Ga-kgapane, Limpopo, South Africa
Lives and works in Cape Town  

Education
  
2005
B TECH Degree in Photography (with Distinction)
2010
Occasional Study in South African Ethnography at the Witwatersrand University
2011-2012
MA Fine Art at University of Cape Town                                 

Solo exhibitions  
2010
Gae Lebowa, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg           
Gae Lebowa, Völkerkunde museum, Vienna  

Selected group exhibitions  
2011
Agter die Berge The Joburg Fringe Video Berlin, 7Hours, Berlin
2010
Joburg Fringe 2010 VideoART!, Various venues in Johannesburg, Johannesburg
Private viewing-South African videoART, D21, Leipzig
New African Photography, Gallery Momo, Johannesburg
2008
Faces, Resolution gallery, Johannesburg             
2007
Sasol New Signature, Pretoria Art museum, Pretoria
Contemporary visions of southern Africa, Pretoria art museum, Pretoria
3C-Committee and Critics Choice, AVA,  Cape Town
2004
PIEA international photography award, Traveling exhibition ( Asia, Americas and Europe/Africa) Tshwane University of Technology B-tech Graduation exhibition, Pretoria State Theatre, Pretoria                                   

Lecturing
2005
Alf Khumalo museum (photo school), visual communication, applied Photography
2004
Tshwane University of Technology, 1st year Creativity and Applied Photography (practical)  

Curatorship  
2004
Curator of the Tshwane University of Technology group exhibition “Diversity And Unity” for the Afro vibes festival held In Amsterdam,  

Collections
Witwatersrand University
Sasol South Africa
Sci-bono center