Tumelo Mosaka

Tumelo Mosaka is a Johannesburg-born New York City-based independent curator.

He has worked within and outside museums exploring global transnational artistic practices, especially from Africa, the Caribbean, and North America. He has curated numerous exhibitions including Fragmented World / Coherent Lives, (2023) Opa-locka, FL; YAKHAL’ INKOMO, (2022-23) Javett-UP Art Center, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Usha Seejarim, A Solo Exhibition (2020) at Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly known as Witte de With) in Rotterdam, Turning Tide, at the Mémorial ACTe Museum, Guadeloupe (2017), Andrew Lyght: Full Circle, Dorsky Art Museum, New York (2016), Poetic Relations, Perez Art Museum, Miami (2015), and Otherwise Black at the 1st edition of International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Martinique (BIAC) 2014.

Previous positions include chief curator for Investec Cape Town Art Fair, South Africa. (2016-19), curator at the Krannert Art Museum (KAM) in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois where he curated several exhibitions including Blind Field (2013), OPENSTUDIO (2011), and MAKEBA! (2011). Before joining KAM, Mosaka was the associate curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, where he curated Infinite Islands: Contemporary Caribbean Art (2007).

Mosaka is the Black Curators Matter Project Director and Curator.

MA Curatorial Studies

"Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art," by Nicolette Ramirez, Annie Paul, Nicollette Ramirez, and published by Philip Wilson 

"Blind Field" by Tumelo Mosaka, and Irene V. Small published by University of Washington Press

"Open House: Working in Brooklyn," by Charlotta Kotik, Tumelo Mosaka and published by Brooklyn Museum Bookshop

"A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad," published by Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis