Kholisile Dhliwayo

Kholisile Dhliwayo is an architect, artist, and curator working between Lenapehoking-NYC and along the east coast of Australia: Naarm-Melbourne and Warrane-Sydney. His interdisciplinary practice draws on cultural practices and collective histories to produce community-centered architecture, art, and installations. His work through art, architecture, exhibition and installation is grounded in a commitment to spatial equity and justice, embracing multiplicity and intersectionality.

Kholisile’s work includes Brooklyn Bronzes, a permanent installation at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) honoring Black Brooklynites; and Black Diasporas, a geolocated oral narrative archive and exhibition series documenting Black life in Lenapehoking-NYC, Tkaronto-Toronto, Naarm-Melbourne, Boorloo-Perth, and Warrane-Sydney. His work has been exhibited at the Library and Archives of Canada, National Archives of Australia, Museum of Western Australia, and the Center for Architecture. He has also contributed to major civic projects including the Canadian Senate Building, the Javits Center, and David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center.

Kholisile is a licensed architect in the United States (NY, VA, and DC) and Australia (NSW and VIC), a Harvard GSD graduate, and 2023–24 Social Innovation Change Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a Helsinki International Curatorial fellow (2026), a member of the New Museum’s NEW INC Year 12 and 13 cohorts, and has led two Australian Federal Government-funded Multicultural Grassroots Initiatives: Voices of Toowoomba and Black Diasporas Warrane-Sydney.