Nontsikelelo Mutiti

Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwean-born visual artist and educator whose practice spans design, publishing, archiving, and institution building. She holds a diploma in Multimedia from the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA), an MFA in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art, and an honorary doctorate from Montserrat College of Art. She is currently Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design at Yale and has held academic positions at ZIVA, SUNY Purchase, and VCUarts.

Major design commissions include publications for Njideka Akunyili Crosby (David Zwirner Books), Derek Fordjour (David Kordansky Gallery), Simone Leigh (ICA Boston, Guggenheim, New Museum), and Àsìkò (CCA Lagos). Her work supports critical discourse through projects such as Where Is Africa (CARA), Studies into Darkness (Vera List Center), and web design for the Practicing Refusal Collective. She also led identity design for Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter and Loophole of Retreat at the Venice Biennale and Choreographies of the Impossible for the 35th edition of the São Paulo Biennial.