Sihle Motsa (2026)

Sihle Motsa is an Art Historian and Art practitioner who earned a Master’s in Art History at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has worked as a lecturer, researcher and writer, authoring texts for the Daily Maverick, Artthrob, Atlantica Contemporaries amongst others. She has curated exhibitions that speak to a myriad of themes including black aesthetic enactments, material cultures, ecological vernaculars and women’s artistic practices. She is the 2023 Marie-Solanges Apollon Scholarship holder and part of the DAAD MuseumsLab 2024 cohort and serves as the Co-Strategic advisor for Liberation Alliance Africa. She is a Creative Knowledge Resources Fellow, and her work figures black cultural, aesthetic, artistic, and intellectual traditions as pertinent to the work of comprehending the entangled political and ecological realities. She hopes to continue this work as part of the OHMA graduate programme at Columbia University.