Dr. Mpho Matsipa is an educator, researcher, and curator. She received her PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and she has taught Advanced Studio, History and Theory of Planning and Architecture, in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, The Cooper Union for Art and Science and Columbia University. She was a co-investigator on an Andrew Mellon research grant on Mobilities and she has written critical essays on art and architecture and curated several exhibitions and discursive platforms including  the 14th International Architecture Exhibitions at the Venice Biennale (2008; 2021); chief curator of African Mobilities at the Architecture Museum, Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich (2018 - 2020); and Studio-X Johannesburg, in South Africa (2014-2016).

Mpho is currently an associate curator for the Lubumbashi Biennale (2022) and working on her manuscript for African Mobilities following her Loeb Fellowship at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (2022), and a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in 2021-2022 .