2024, "Then I Knew I Was Good at Painting: Esther Mahlangu. A Retrospective", exhibition catalogue, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
2024, "Alla Black Liquid Art Gallery di Roma, la mostra 'Beyond the Wall' di Esther Mahlangu", TusciaUp
2019, "Esther Mahlangu", monograph published by the South African Department of Arts and Culture
2016, Antonella Pisilli, video interview with the artist, Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi, Kyo Noir Studio, Viterbo
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Beyond the Wall: Esther Mahlangu and Ndebele Culture between Tradition and Contemporaneity, curated by Antonella Pisilli, Black Liquid Art Gallery, Rome, Italy (inaugural exhibition of the Rome venue)
Then I Knew I Was Good at Painting: Esther Mahlangu. A Retrospective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (18 February - 11 August 2024); Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg (20 November 2024 - 17 April 2025); international tour
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, public mural, Serpentine Galleries for Frieze London, UK
2016
Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi: Focus on Esther Mahlangu, curated by Antonella Pisilli, Kyo Noir Studio, Viterbo, Italy
2015
Esther Mahlangu 80, UCT Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
60th Venice Biennale, Stranieri Ovunque / Foreigners Everywhere, Venice, Italy
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
2023
Africam EXPLORO, curated by Antonella Pisilli, Black Liquid Art Gallery, Viterbo, Italy
2011
Transafricana, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Fondazione 107, Turin, Italy
2010
L'Africa nei loro occhi, curated by Antonella Pisilli, Ex Convento dei Carmelitani Scalzi, VII Vitarte edition, Viterbo, Italy
2007
Why Africa?, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
2004-2007
Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
1992
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
1991
BMW Art Car Collection (12th BMW Art Car), international presentations; exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. (1994) and the British Museum, London (2017)
1989
Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou and Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France
Public Collections
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa
William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley, South Africa
University of Cape Town, South Africa