As a foremost conceptual artist working in a range of media for more than forty years, Willem Boshoff’s primary medium has been language; the morphology of words, their shape and meaning. 

His work involves a great deal of interdisciplinary research, resulting in the donation of his digital research archive to the Fine Arts Department of Free State University, where he has served as senior Professor since 2012.Boshoff trained at the Johannesburg College of Art (now University of Johannesburg, FADA). He was Head of Fine Arts at the erstwhile Technikon Witwatersrand (now University of Johannesburg, FADA) and in 2008 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Johannesburg. 

In 2012 he enjoyed a research fellowship at Smithsonian Institution (jointly sponsored by National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of African Art). Boshoff has exhibited extensively and his work is represented in many private, corporate and museum collections locally and abroad.