Lungile Ngcobo is a Multidisciplinary Artist, photographer, and archivist whose practice spans commercial and documentary work. She works with analogue and digital formats, focusing on themes of home, identity, and heritage. Lungile studied photography at the Market Photo Workshop and pursued archives and records management at the University of South Africa. She currently works as an archivist at the David Krut Workshop. Lungile is an active member of

Occupying the Gallery, an artist collective hosted by Mary Sibande and Lawrence Lemaoana. In 2020, she participated in  the Moleskine residency and exhibition at Constitution Hill, What Comes First?, facilitated by Simon Njami. She returned to the project in 2022 for its iteration at Nirox Sculpture Park and participated in the Reshape 2022 women’s exhibition at Latitude Online. Her involvement with Occupying the Gallery continued with its second season at SMAC Gallery in Johannesburg. In 2023, Lungile won first prize for her project The Maternal in the Sanlam Group and Youth Content Collective exhibition under the mentorship of Tatenda Chidora through the Market Photo Workshop's Incubator Programme. In 2024, she participated in the Kiki pop-up exhibition with Stevenson Gallery Group and contributed to the zine launched at the opening of Fouad Asfour’s PhD exhibition at Wits Art Museum. From August to September 2024,

Lungile took part in the Occupying the Gallery: DStv Delicious x The Great Oven x Nirox Residency, mentored by Mary Sibande and Lawrence Lemaoana, focusing on painting and collaborative processes. In June 2024, she joined the Occupying The Gallery x French Institute Residency, working on a mural project that emphasised collective engagement and artistic collaboration. In 2024, Lungile also exhibited in Steelwool and Other Paradoxes, the annual women’s group exhibition with Latitude Online, co-curated by Boitumelo Makousu and Denzo Nyathi. The exhibition explored the complexities of women’s lived experiences, and her work was acquired by the Iziko Art Museum in Cape Town. Lungile’s work incorporates documentary photography, fashion, and collage. Her approach emphasises exploring personal and cultural histories, using visual elements to examine the relationships between healing, trauma memory,

heritage, and contemporary identity.