Keneilwe Mokoena is a visual artist, curator and educator based in Johannesburg. Her work has been exhibited in a number of cities, both locally and internationally, including Swaziland, Brussels and Paris. Mokoena was the recipient of the 2015 Reinhold Cassirer award and had a residency at the Bag Factory Artist Studio in Fordsburg, Johannesburg.

The multi-disciplinary artist has curated multiple exhibitions in the Southern African region (including Maputo and Harare) for Capital Arts Revolution – which is a formed by a collective of artists from Pretoria, and also Social Life of Waste [S.L.O.W] Art – a network of artists, researchers, writers, gardeners and community developers working within the discourse of waste.