Kholisile Dhliwayo
Licensed Architect
NY, CT, & Washington DC - USA,
Victoria & NSW - Australia
Master in Design Studies (Publics Domain)
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Adrian Cheng Fellow,
Social Innovation and Change Initiative,
Harvard Kennedy School
Master of Architecture (Design)
Bachelor of Design (Architecture)
Deakin University
I am African+Australian creative working between Manahatta-NYC and Australia - Naarm-Melbourne and Warrane-Sydney. My work is deeply informed by the contexts of culture and place, including but not limited to familial and personal experiences of the aspirations of Australian multiculturalism, post-war New Zealand, Thatcher-era UK, Southern African Apartheid, post-colonial Africa (East+South), and the nuances and complexities of race and migration in the United States.
Through community-centered architecture, art, and installations, my practice responds to how culture and place shape everyday experience.
My works include the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) permanent installation Brooklyn Bronzes honouring Black Brooklynites, and Black Diasporas, a geolocated oral narrative archive and exhibitions about Black life in Tkaronto-Toronto, Naarm-Melbourne, Boorloo-Perth, and Warrane-Sydney.
I have also had the privilege of contributing to various large civic projects including, the Canadian Senate Building, Javits Center, and David Geffen Hall (Lincoln Center).
I am committed to advancing spatial equity and justice through works that embrace multiplicity and intersectionality.