Sikhumbuzo Makandula was born in De Aar, studied Fine Art at Rhodes University and currently lives and works between Johannesburg and Makhanda. He works with photography, video and performance art and in 2016 did his first solo exhibition at Njelele Art Station in Zimbabwe. He has participated in group exhibitions such as the Wiener Festwochen in Vienna, at !Kauru 2015: Towards Intersections at UNISA Art Gallery in Pretoria, the Joburg Art Fair, That Art Fair in Cape Town and Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais in Sierre, Switzerland.