# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zanele-muholi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:57:20.236Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zanele-muholi"
name: "Zanele Muholi"
slug: "zanele-muholi"
description: "Zanele Muholi is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000s, documenting and celebrating the lives of South Africa's Black lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex communities. Muholi is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, explaining that \"I'm just human\"."
tagline: "South African artist and visual activist (born 1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zanele_Muholi%2C_2011_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "non-binary"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1972-07-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.23758933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  246
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/muholizanele/"
    handle:    "muholizanele"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2884780/"
    handle:    "nm2884780"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "زانيل موهولى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zanele Muholi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zanele Muholi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zanele Muholi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanele_Muholi"
    title: "Zanele Muholi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanele_Muholi"
    title: "Zanele Muholi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zanele Muholi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zanele Muholi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zanele Muholi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Զանելա Մուհոլի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zanele Muholi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "സനേലി മുഹോലി"
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    title: "Zanele Muholi"
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    title: "Zanele Muholi"
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    title: "Мухоли, Занеле"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanele_Muholi"
    title: "Zanele Muholi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanele_Muholi"
    title: "Zanele Muholi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanele_Muholi"
    title: "Zanele Muholi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanele_Muholi"
    title: "Zanele Muholi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zanele_Muholi"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zanele_Muholi"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q146776"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1065017"
    title: "Zanele Muholi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump