Nkhensani Mkhari

Nkensani Mkhari (b. 1994) is a contemporary curator and post-disciplinary artist. His broad practice spans photography, painting, performance art, sound design, and new media. Mkhari‘s artworks function as multimodal material-semiotic metaphors.

Nkhensani Mkhari (b. 1994) is a Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary artist and curator. His keen interest in the intersections between art and technology led him to his first residency with Fak’ugesi Digital Innovation Festival in 2018, curated by Dr. Tegan Bristow, with Brian House and Marc Lee as his mentors. The residency culminated in a multimedia installation exploring themes of their ongoing body of work titled Image of transgression, exploring human spatial evolution into cyberspace and the cultural repercussions of that change. In 2019, his VR work titled Coronation of a Holographic Rainbow was shortlisted for the ZKM and Solitude Web Residency call no. 6, curated by Mary Maggic. The project explored how indigenous ritual ceremonies may be archived using virtual and augmented reality. In January 2020, he had his first pop-up exhibition, Uhm Yeah in Paris/France, with Le Ge’enied’ Alex. In September, he opened his first exhibition in Johannesburg titled Porous Borders. In 2024, David came across Nkhensani Mkhari's work being shown at the Johannesburg Art Fair with Church Gallery. Mkhari's intimate works reminded David of the work of Agnes Martin. After an introduction to Mkhari, David invited him to visit our workshop at Arts on Main. In December 2024, he took up that offer and came in to work on monotypes, working alongside printers Roxy Kaczmarek and Kim-Lee Loggenberg-Tim. He continued his collaboration in 2025, resulting in a body of work that was shown at the David Krut Gallery, Johannesburg, in March of the same year, his first exhibition with David Krut Projects.