Ralph Ziman was born in 1963 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. An interdisciplinary artist, his practice is motivated by a sense of social responsibility toward global politics. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Joseph Gross Gallery in Tuscon, Arizona, and C.A.V.E. Gallery in Venice, California, as well as group exhibitions at the National Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn, New York, and the FNP Art Fair in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has been featured in Art in America, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, The Independent, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. His award-winning film projects have screened at prestigious festivals around the world, including Berlinale International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and Zurich Film Festival. His feature film Jerusalema was short-listed for a Best Foreign Film Language Academy Award nomination in 2008.