Tumelo Mosaka
Tumelo Mosaka is an independent curator from South Africa. Most recently, he was the contemporary art curator at the Krannert Art Museum (KAM) in Champaign, IL where he curated several exhibitions including:
Blind Field (2013),
OPENSTUDIO (2011),
The Kangarok Epic (2011),
iona rozeal brown (2011),
MAKEBA! (2011),
Baggage Allowance (2010),
The Bikeriders: Danny Lyon (2010),
Lida Abdul (2010), and
On Screen: Global Intimacy (2009), among others. Prior to joining KAM, Mosaka was Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum where he curated exhibitions such as
Infinite Islands: Contemporary Caribbean Art (2007),
Passing/Posing: Kehinde Wiley (2004) and co-curated
Open House: Working in Brooklyn (2004). Mosaka has also worked for the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina where he co-curated the exhibition
Listening Across Cultures (2001) and
Evoking History (2002). He has also organized several international exhibitions including
Otherwise Black (2014) for the 1st edition International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Martinique (BIAC).
His projects have explored global and transnational artistic production especially from Africa, the Caribbean and North America, examining themes such as racial injustice, migration, and identity. For the past decade, Mosaka has worked independently in New York curating works pertaining to migration, identity, and racial injustice.
Omenka talks to him about the impact his involvement as curator in the recently concluded 2017 edition of the
Cape Town Art Fair (CTAF) had on global perceptions of African art.
