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Education

Columbia University, NY, USA. Department of Art History and Archaeology. Master of Philosophy; Master of Arts.

Barnard College, NY, USA. Art History and Africana Studies. Bachelor of Arts, Magna cum laude.

Suffolk University, Dakar, Senegal

Exhibitions & Performances

Połączenie (original short story, 2020), invited reader at “Jesse Darling & Friends of Friends” at klosterruine, Berlin. August 13, 2020.

Gardening: Eleana Antonaki, Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Sofia Mesa. ma ma gallery, Toronto, Canada. August 24 - September 17, 2018.

with accompanying publication: A Complete Guide to Seeds, Gardening and Rootlessness. 2018.

Lucky / Between Us, or who cares about resolution. A performance conversation. Organized by Roni Katz with Anna Zett. NGBK, Berlin, Germany. July 29, 2018.

Round 46: Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter. Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas, USA. March 25 - June 4, 2017.

Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter. New Museum, New York, USA. September 1, 2016.

Writing

“Interview” in Ahmed Umar (minigraph). Oslo: Kunstnernes Hus, 2024.

“Roving notes through an embodied archive that presents something ‘more true than fact’” in Simone Leigh (ed. Eva Respini). Boston: ICA Boston / Distributed Art Publishers (D.A.P.), 2023.

“While we are embattled… on conjunctions of safety and communion” in While we are embattled. Hong Kong: Para Site, 2022.

“An existential scale of understanding: on fungus and fabulation in Daniel Lie’s oeuvre” in Scales of Decay. Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2021.

“Let us do something, while we have the chance : on Mario Pfeifer’s performance Again - Live” in If you end up with the story you started with, then you’re not listening along the way (eds. Mario Pfeifer and Gaëtane Verna). Mousse Publishing, 2020.

“John Outterbridge” in Among Others: Blackness at MoMA (eds. Darby English; Charlotte Barat). New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019.

Strange Attractors. Berlin: Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art / KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e.V., 2018.

We don't need another hero, catalog for 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Berlin: Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art / KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e.V., 2018.

“Curatorial Conversations”; “I’m not who you think I’m not a manifesto”; “Strange Attractors”

Artist texts for Julia Phillips, Mildred Thompson, and Okwui Okpokwasili. (Links to shortened online texts)

“Ekphrasis for a Veiled Dream” in Portia Zvavahera: I’m with You. Cape Town: Stevenson, 2017.

“Remediating Defacement” in Curtis Santiago: Constructing Return (College Art Galleries exhibition catalogue, curated by Magdalyn Asimakis). Saskatoon, SK, Canada: University of Saskatchewan, 2017.

“Firelei Báez and the Oscillations of the Historiographic” in Fore. New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2012.

“Emancipation and the ‘will to power’: the productive ambiguities of set setal” in DON’T/PANIC (ed. Gabi Ngcobo). South Africa: Jacana Media, 2011.

“Augusta Savage” in Re: Collection – Selected Works from The Studio Museum in Harlem. New York, NY: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2010.

Curatorial

Nomadic Program. Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, the Netherlands. Curator. 2022-2023.

22nd Biennial Sesc_VideoBrasil. Sesc 24 de Mayo, São Paulo, Brazil. Pre-selection Committee. October 18, 2023 - April 28, 2024.

While we are embattled. Para Site, Hong Kong. Curator. October 2 - November 20, 2022.

Regeneration as Medium. SEEN BY #16, an exhibition cooperation between Kunstbibliothek - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Universität der Künste Berlin. Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany. Curator. 2021-22.

How do we learn to love each other while we are embattled on so many fronts? 8 week workshop. Tankstation, Enschede, the Netherlands. 2021.

Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, the Netherlands. Visiting art critic. 2020..

RijksakademieOPEN 2019. Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. Coordinator with Gabi Ngcobo. 2019.

Strange Attractors Reading Room. KW Institute for Contemporary Art, on the occasion of the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany. Curator. 2018.

We don’t need another hero. 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Co-curator with Gabi Ngcobo, Yvette Mutumba, Thiago de Paula Souza, and Serubiri Moses. 2016 - 2018

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY, USA. Mellon Museum Research Consortium Fellow. 2015 - 2016.

Presentations

Ecological Meditation with Junghun Kim. on the occasion of the exhibition While we are embattled. Para Site, Hong Kong. November 19, 2022.

Reading Session with the C& Center of Unfinished Business. on the occasion of the exhibition While we are embattled. Para Site, Hong Kong. November 15, 2022.

On play, vulnerability, and risk within safe space: a conversation with the artists Sara Haq, Sabelo Mlangeni, and Temitayo Ogunbiyi. on the occasion of the exhibition While we are embattled. Para Site, Hong Kong. November 9, 2022.

Loophole of Retreat: Venice. Symposium presentation. Fundazione Cini, Italy. October 7 - 9, 2022.

Artist talk with Daniel Lie. KfW Stiftung, Villa 102 Frankfurt, Germany. June 19, 2022.

“Conversation as Cosmology: Nomaduma Rosa Masilela". Guest Speaker. Integrative Studio. The New School, New York, NY. February 24, 2022.

Book Launch of Mario Pfeifer’s If you end up with the story you started with, then you’re not listening along the way, presented by the authors, artist and designer: Georg Imdahl, Nomaduma R. Masilela, Markus Weisbeck, and Mario Pfeifer. The conversation moderated by the editor, Gaëtane Verna, the Director of The Power Plant, Toronto. Mousse Publishing. February 19, 2021.

Prognostics Lecture. UniArts Helsinki, Finland. 2019.

“Telling Time” seminar presentation for De Appel Curatorial Programme participants. De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2019.

Presentation in “art production & art world through the lens of intersectionality / searching for alternative strategies” panel organized by Kristina Lebo as part of the "Intersectional Matter” project. Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany. 2019.

“Made strange when” panel presentation at “Art - How Much is it Still an Idea for the Future?” International conference on the occasion of the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory. Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2018.

“Meet the Curator: Nomaduma Rosa Masilela - Curating the Berlin Biennale” presentation. IWALEWAHAUS, Bayreuth, Germany. 2018.

“Curatorial Strategies within the context of the next Berlin Biennale” public lecture for “Preoccupations - Conversation in a museum.” ISU - Institute of contemporary art, Miodrag Dado Duric art gallery, Cetinje, Montenegro. 2017.

“I’m not who you think I’m not #2 - What to do with anxiety? A conversation surrounding the 10th Berlin Biennale'.” 2017 FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa. 2017.

Visiting art critic. NARS, New York, USA. 2017.

Visiting art critic. ArtOMI, New York, USA. 2017.

“Asiko, an itinerant art school” panel organizer, with invited guests Bisi Silva, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Stephanie Baptiste. MoMA, New York, USA. 2016.

“African American Artists and the Museum” 2016 Museum Research Consortium Study Sessions presentation, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. MoMA, New York, USA. 2016.

Presentation for "Not No Place? Images of the African City" panel organized by Bettina Malcomess and Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, 6th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Paris, France. 2015.

Presentation for "Art and social engagement: aesthetic articulations in Africa urban spaces" panel organized by Fiona Siegenthaler and Till Förster, 5th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Lisbon, Portugal. 2013.

Teaching

Curatorial Mentor for Parallel European Photo Based platform, Procur.arte, Lisbon, Portugal. 2019-20.

Praxis Workshop for Praxis Masters Programme in Exhibition Studies. UniArts Helsinki, Finland. 2019.

Instructor of "Masterpieces of Western Civilization". Columbia University, NY, USA. 2016.

Teaching Fellow of “Introduction to the History of Photography” ( with Dr. Alexander Alberro); “Contemporary Arts of Africa” (with Dr. Zoe S. Strother); and “Arts of Africa” (with Dr. Zoe S. Strother). Columbia University, NY. 2010-11.

Selected News

“Talking to Nomaduma Rosa Masilela and Thiago de Paula Souza - Nomadic curators at Vleeshal Middelburg” by Danai Giannoglou. Metropolis M magazine. July 11, 2023.

“While we are embattled - Installation view”. Contemporary&. December 12, 2022.

“Stroom Invest interviews / curator Nomaduma Masilela” by Indra Devriendt. Jegens & Tevens. September 18, 2020

“Trainspotting” by Kate Sutton. ArtForum. December 17, 2018

“10th Berlin Biennale” interview by Miriam Bers. Go Art! Berlin. August 16, 2018

“10. Berlin Biennale: Nie potrzebujemy bohaterów” by Jakub Gawkowski. Przekrój. July 5, 2018

“Berlin Biennale | Festivals | Showcase” TV interview. TRTWORLD News. June 13, 2018.

“Ahead of the 10th Berlin Biennale, What you Need to Know About the Curators” by Houghton Kinsman. Frieze. June 6, 2018.

“Reflections from Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter” by Jillian Steinhauer. Hyperallergic. September 15, 2016