Nomusa Makhubu

Director of the Institute for Creative Arts at University of Cape Town

Nomusa Makhubu is a Professor in Art History at the University of Cape Town. She is the founder of Creative Knowledge Resources (CKR) – an open access platform for social justice arts. She was the recipient of the ABSA L’Atelier Gerard Sekoto Award in 2006 and the Prix du Studio National des Arts Contemporain, Le Fresnoy in 2014. She received the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) African Humanities Program fellowship award and was selected to be an African Studies Association (ASA) Presidential fellow in 2016. In 2017, she was a UCT-Harvard Mandela fellow at the Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research, Harvard University. Makhubu has co-curated exhibitions (including a co-curation of the South African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Italy), and she has published Creative Books and research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and book volumes.