Gabrielle Goliath was born in Kimberley, South Africa, in 1983. She has an MAFA and BAFA from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She has held three solo exhibitions in Johannesburg at Nirox at Arts on Main, Circa and Gallery Momo.

Goliath has exhibited extensively on local group exhibitions including Alterating Conditions: performing performance art in South Africa at Goethe on Main & the Bag Factory, Transformations: Women’s Art from the late 19 Century at the Johannesburg Art Gallery and SPace at Museum Africa. Internationally, her work featured on the Dak’Art Biennale and Photoville, the Tierney Fellowship Exhibit in New York in 2012 and Between the Lines at the Former Tagesspiegel Building in Berlin in 2013. She is a recipient of the Tierney Fellowship Award, the Brait Everard Read Award 2007 and the Wits Martienssen Prize. Her work is represented in the collections of the Iziko South African National Gallery and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, as well as in various academic, private and corporate collections.