Nontobeko Ntombela is a South African curator based in Johannesburg, where she works as a lecturer at the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand. Previously, Ntombela worked at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (2010–12), the Durban Institute of Technology Art Gallery (2006–10), KwaZulu Natal Heritage Council (2005-6), the Bat Centre (2002-5) and Arts for Humanity (2000-1). While working for these organisations, Ntombela produced several public exhibitions including – The Burden of Memory (2019) co-curated with Rose Jepkorir and Marilyn Douala Bell, a multiple cite event in the city of Yaoundé Cameroon; From No Fixed Place (ten Solo projects) at Cape Town Art Fair (2018); Disolo (2018)  co-curated with Patrick Mudekereza and Sari Middernacht at Musée National de Lubumbashi (an on-going project on museum collections); Spectaculaire (2013) Frac Des PaysLa Loir, Carquefuo, France; The Two Talking Yonis (2013) (a multi-cite solo-installation of Reshma Chhiba’s work) in Johannesburg; A Fragile Archive at Johannesburg Art Gallery (2012); Looking as Learning (2011) co-curated with Musha Neluheni at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG); uMaNyawuza (Mbongeni Buthelezi’s mid-career show) at JAG, MTN New Contemporaries (2010) at KwaZulu Natal Society of the Arts (KZNSA); Layers at the Goodman Gallery project space Johannesburg (2010); Modern Fabrics at the Bag Factory Johannesburg (2008); From Here to There at the Association of Visual Arts (AVA) Cape Town (2007), CAPE 07 fringe – among others. Ntombela also writes, and some of the publications that feature her work are the Yoni Book (2018) co-edited with Reshma Chhiba, Streams of Consciousness: A Concatenation of Dividuals. 12th Edition of the Bamako Encounters, African Biennale of Photography (2019) edited by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the co-curators Aziza Harmel, Astrid Sokona Lepoultier and Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Tribe/Untribe (2016) edited by Carolyn Hamilton and Ness Leibhammer, Exhibitionist La Critique (2016), Great Expectations: Prospects for the Future of Curatorial Education (2016) edited by Leigh Markopoulos, n. paradoxa, international feminist art journal (2013) a special edition, edited by Bisi Silva, among others. Ntombela has also served on several boards and committees like Standard Bank Art Gallery Committee (2019 – ), the National Arts Council (2011 – 2016), Visual Arts Network of South Africa (2007 – 2013), Art for Human rights Trust (2005 – 2010), African Art Centre (2005 – 2007) and so forth. She has served on several juries including Vera List Price, New School, NYU, New York (2018), Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal (2016), Thami Myele Art Award, Ekurhuleni Art Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa (2014), among others. Ntombela has participated on international exchange programs including, African Season residency at FRAC the Close Connections (Africa Reflected) Curator’s Workshop in Amsterdam (2009), the Bilateral Exchange Project between Germany and South Africa (2007), and Break the Silence Scotland (2002–3).