BIOGRAPHY

Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti is a Nancy and Robert J. Carney Postdoctoral Associate in Art History, working with Professor Leo Costello. He is a cultural worker and an art historian with research interests in the early modern art schools of Southern Africa and the artistic lineages traceable to these early workshops. He researches and writes on contemporary art practices in Africa, as well as the current migration trends in Southern Africa. Muvhuti has written several exhibition reviews, opinion pieces, and carried out multiple interviews/conversations with artists and curators. He has also contributed essays and blurbs to several art books and catalogues. He was the first recipient of the Arak Collection Art Writing Residency, May-November 2023. He has worked as a Gallery Assistant at the AVA Gallery in Cape Town and the Centre for African Studies Gallery at the University of Cape Town (UCT), a Research Assistant and Project Manager at the Centre for Curating the Archive (UCT), and a Research Assistant for the Curatorial Department at the Zeitz MOCAA Museum – working on the traveling transnational When We See Us exhibition – currently showing in Europe. He enjoys taking walks along the Braes Bayou, visiting the local museums, and watching the local soccer teams – Houston Dynamo and Houston Dash – at the Shell Energy Stadium. His favorite pastime is photography.