Born in 1983, in Cape Town, he completed his BAFA (2011) and an MFA (2013) at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, where he was the recipient of several prestigious awards and scholarships, including the Michaelis Prize (2011) and Tierney Fellowship Award (2013). Walters completed a creative exchange at Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig (2013). In 2015 he was awarded an Apexart Fellowship in New York, and an artist residency in Amersfoort, Netherlands in 2017/18. Commissioned by Magnum Foundation in collaboration with The Atlantic Philanthropies and other organisations his work has been featured widely in publications such as Laying Foundations for Change; Rogue Urbanism: Emergent African Cities; Aperture magazine: Platform Africa, Summer 2017 edition (#227), Rencontres de Bamako: Biennale Africaine De La Photographie 10ème édition; Strange Cargo: Essays on Art and Evergreen Review. Walters has participated in numerous international exhibitions in Bamako, Netherlands, London, Germany, New York, Beijing, and South Korea and exhibited his works widely within South Africa including Norval Foundation and Iziko SANG.
