Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwean-born artist and educator working across disciplines to produce work that occupies the forms of fine art, design and social practice.  Mutiti received a diploma in multimedia from the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA) in 2007 and an M.F.A. with a concentration in graphic design from the Yale School of Art in 2012.  She has been a resident artist at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Recess as well as the Centre for Book Arts in New York.  In 2015, she received an inaugural Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Award.  Mutiti is currently Assistant Professor in the New Media Department with the State University of New York, Purchase College.