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Nicholas Hlobo was born in Cape Town, South Africa and lives in Johannesburg. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis, Mauritius; Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden; Museum Beelden aan Zee, the Hague, Netherlands; Locust Projects, Miami, Florida; the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway; Tate Modern, London; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, among others.

In 2011, Hlobo showed newly commissioned work on "ILLUMInations," the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. His work also appeared in Venice on "The World Belongs to You," works from the Pinault Collection at the Palazzo Grassi, and the "Future Generation Art Prize" exhibition at the Palazzo Papadopoli. He has participated in notable group exhibitions, such as Performa 17, New York and at institutions such as Fondation Louis Vuitton; Tate Modern, London; the Centre Pompidou in Paris; Foundation De 11 Lijnen in Oudenburg, Belgium; the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.; MMK (Museum für Moderne Kunst), Frankfurt Germany and SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California; the 18th Biennale of Sydney, Australia; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the Liverpool Biennale, England; the third Guangzhou Triennial, China and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Hlobo was the first recipient of the Villa Extraordinary Award for Sculpture in 2016. He was the Tolman Award winner 2006, the Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2009 and the Rolex Visual Arts Protégé for 2010/11, working with Anish Kapoor as his mentor.