Molemo Moiloa lives and works in Johannesburg, and has worked in various capacities at the intersection of creative practice and community organizing. Molemo’s academic work has focused on the political subjectivities of South African youth. She is one half of the artist collaborative MADEYOULOOK, who explore everyday popular imaginaries and their modalities for knowledge production. She also currently leads research at Andani.Africa, with a focus on open restitution debates.

She also works with the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation, the School of Arts and Social Anthropology department at the University of the Witwatersrand, among others. Molemo has both a BA Fine Arts (cum laude) and MA Social Anthropology (cum laude) degree from WITS. MADEYOULOOK was nominated for the Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics 2016/17 at the New School, New York. Molemo was also a Chevening Clore Fellow 2016/17, and winner of a Vita Basadi Award for 2017.