William Kentridge

William Kentridge was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1955. He  attended the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1973–76),  Johannesburg Art Foundation (1976–78), and studied mime and theater at  L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, Paris (1981–82). Having  witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious  struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—Kentridge brings the ambiguity  and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects that are most  often framed in narrowly defined terms.

Source: Art 21