2001 DAAD Fellowship, Berlin, Germany
1998 Künstlerhaus Worpswede Fellowship, Worpswede, Germany
1992 1st Mother Jones Award for Africa
1991 Ernest Cole Scholarship to study ICP, New York, USA

2006 “Chasing Shadows: Magic and Disease”, carlier | gebauer
“Invoice: Chasing Shadows/ Magic and Disease”, South African National Gallery, Cape Town

2004 David Krut Projects, New York, USA
Centre Photographique d’Ile de France, Pontault Combault, France

2003 “On Sacred Ground”, Africalia 03, Memling Museum, Brugge

2000 “Sad Landscapes”, Camouflage Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1999 “Chasing Shadows”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
“The Black Photo Album - Johannesburg, 1890-1950”, L’Atelier de Visu, Marseille, France
“The Black Photo Album / Look At Me (photos)”, FNAC
Montparnasse, France

1998 “Lunarscapes”, Nederland Foto Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1997 “Chasing Shadows”, Gertrude Posel Gallery, Wits University,
South Africa

1995 “Distorting Mirror / Townships Imagined” Worker ́s Library,
Johannesburg, South Africa

1994 “Rumours / The Bloemhof Portfolio”, Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1990 “Like Shifting Sand”, Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Collaborative Exhibitions

2000 “Rhizomes of Memory” with David Goldblatt and
George Hallett, Henie Onstad, Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway

1995 “South African Photography” with Peter Magubane,
Institut Für Auslandsbeziehungen, Bonn, Germany

1990 “Going Home” with Paul Weinberg, Canon Image Centre,
Amsterdam, Netherlands

2008 "Urban Reflections", Stills, Edinburgh, Scotland
2008 Haunch of Venison, London
2007 “Reality Crossings,” 2. Fotofestival Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
2007 “52nd Venice Biennial” (African Pavillon)
2007 “Contemporary Photography Art from South Africa”, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
2007-2004 “Afrika Remix”, Germany, UK, France, Japan
2004 “Unsettled”, Copenhagen, DK / Durban, SA
2004 “Forbidden City”, Beijing, China
2004 “New Identities. Zeitgenoessische Kunst aus Suedafrika”, Museum Bochum, Germany
2002 documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
2001 “The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994”, MGB, Berlin / Guggenheim Center, NY
2000 “The Song of the Earth”, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2000 “L ́État des Choses”, Kunstwerke Berlin, Germany
1998 “Blank--: Architecture, apartheid and after”, Netherlands Architecture Institute Rotterdam
1996 “In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present”, Guggenheim Museum, New York
1994 “A Shifting Landscape”, Photo International, Rotterdam
1993 “In Transit”, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA

Books / catalogues

2001 “Santu Mofokeng”, Johannesburg, David Krut Publishing.

2000 “Rhizomes of memory: Three South African Photographers
(exhibition catalogue), Oslo, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter.