Tracey Rose is a contemporary South African artist, known for her provocative and performative practice that interrogates issues of race, gender, sexuality, colonialism, and identity. Working across video, performance, photography, installation, and drawing, Rose’s work challenges canonical art histories and confronts systems of power with biting humour, ritual, and self-reflexivity.

She received her BA in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1996), and has held numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally. Major exhibitions include the Venice Biennale (2001, 2007, 2019); Documenta 14, Kassel and Athens (2017); The Studio Museum in Harlem; Tate Liverpool; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Shooting Down Babylon (The Art of War) at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) (2022), which toured to the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane (2023–24).

Her work is represented in major public and private collections worldwide, including the Tate, Centre Pompidou, Zeitz MOCAA, and the South African National Gallery. Through her unflinching performances and visual language, Rose continues to redefine the possibilities of feminist and decolonial expression in contemporary art.