Renée Mussai is a curator, writer and scholar with a special interest in African and diasporic lens-based visual arts practices. She is Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial & Collection at Autograph, London, an arts charity advocating for rights, representation and social justice through photography and film, where she has worked for almost two decades: organising exhibitions in Europe, Africa and America, commissioning a diverse constituency of international artists, developing a range of artistic programmes including publications and curating Autograph’s unique collection of photography. Mussai lectures regularly on photography, visual culture, and curatorial activism, and her writing has appeared in numerous artist monographs and anthologies including by TATE, Aperture, NkA, and other journals and publications. Her recent publications and exhibitions include Lina Iris Viktor: Some Are Born to Endless Night—Dark Matter (2019/20), Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama—Hail the Dark Lioness (2017 – present); Phoebe Boswell: The Space Between Things (2018/19); and Black Chronicles IV (2018). Initiated by Zanele Muholi, she has co-curated the collaborative Women’s Mobile Museum (Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, 2018). In addition to her curatorial practice, Mussai is Research Associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg; Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts London; and since 2009, regular guest curator and former Fellow at the Hutchins Centre for African & African American Research at Harvard University. She is also a part-time PhD candidate in History of Art at University College London where she is currently completing her doctoral thesis on nineteenth century ‘raced’ portrait photography and contemporary curatorial care, based on the critically acclaimed The Missing Chapter – Black Chronicles archive research programmes she has led between 2014 – 2018 (publication forthcoming 2021/22). She serves on a number of committees including The Royal Photographic Society and Fast Forward: Women in Photography.