The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Nontobeko Ntombela is a lecturer in the Department of Curatorial, Public, and Visual Cultures at the Wits School of Arts. Having worked in art galleries, museums, and NGOs, such as the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Durban University Art Gallery, BAT Centre, and others over the course of twelve years, she joined Wits University in 2012, shifting her curatorial practice toward more research-intensive projects on contemporary South African Black women artists of the early twentieth century. During this period, Ntombela has been recognized for such curatorial projects as A Fragile Archive (2013), When Rain Clouds Gather: South African Black Women Artists 1940–2000 (2022), and Then I Knew I Was Good At Painting: Esther Mahlangu, A Retrospective (2024). She is also the co-editor with Reshma Chhiba of The Yoni Book (2019). She has served on various boards and committees for various organizations, including the Visual Arts Network of South Africa; the Department of Arts, Culture, Sports and Recreation; the National Arts Council; and Arts For Human Rights Trust, among others.

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