Ka Zenzile was born in Lady Frere, Eastern Cape, in 1986. He has a MA Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. He won the Tollman Award for Visual Art in 2014, the Michaelis Prize in 2013, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Norval Sovereign African Art Prize. He was among three artists selected for the South African Pavilion of the 2019 Venice Biennale, curated by Nomusa Makhubu and Nkule Mabaso under the title The Stronger We Become.
