Tumelo Mosaka is an independent curator. Originally from South Africa, Mosaka has worked primarily in the United States over the past two decades. His recent work includes exhibitions at The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New York (on Andrew Lyght) and the Seattle Art Museum in Washington (on Kehinde Wiley). Mosaka was the contemporary art curator at the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign, IL from 2009-2013, and before that, the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum where he curated exhibitions such as Infinite Islands: Contemporary Caribbean Art in 2007. Mosaka also co-authored (with Robert Bird, Christopher P. Heuer, Matthew Jesse Jackson, and Stephanie Smith) the book Vision and Communism: Viktor Koretsky and Dissident Public Visual Culture, published by The New Press (2011). His latest exhibition, “SAY IT LOUD” at The ARC building in Miami, Florida (November 2016-January 2017), featured work by artists Michael Paul Britto, Myra Greene, Joshua R. McFadden, Mario Pfeifer and Roberto Visani, and films by Bhawin Suchak & Ira McKinley and Stanley Nelson.
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