I’m a South African curator, scholar, and researcher with 15+ years of experience across the visual arts, higher education, design, heritage, and the built environment. My research engages anti-colonial modes of representation in cultural institutions, the spatial politics of post-independence African cities, and exhibitionary affect, the ways exhibitions organise feeling, attention, and meaning through space, narrative, and encounter, and how these affects shape what becomes legible, held, or refused within the museum. I am currently employed as Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial Affairs at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, where I lead exhibitions, research, and public programmes focused on the art of Africa and its diasporas.

Alongside my museum role, I serve as Deputy Chairperson of the Africa South Arts Initiative (ASAI) and sit on the board of the District Six Museum. My recognitions include the University of the Witwatersrand Chancellor's Female Academic Leadership Fellowship (FALF, 2024), the Getty Foundation’s MAHASSA Fellowship (2019–2020), and the University of Cape Town ICA Curatorial Fellowship (2018). In 2022, I curated Unsettled as a guest curator at the Dak’Art Biennale in Dakar, Senegal.

My writing has appeared across international platforms and publications, including Africasacountry and the Mail & Guardian, as well as in key compendia on critical arts discourse, including Routledge’s Companion to African Diaspora Art History. I hold a PhD in Art Historical Studies, a Master’s in Visual Art, an Honours degree in Visual Studies, and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, and I bring this transdisciplinary training to my curatorial and scholarly practice.