Themba Khumalo is a visual artist born in 1987, who grew up in Orange Farm and is now based in Johannesburg.

Over the course of his ten-year professional career, he has taken part in more than twenty group exhibitions, over ten art fairs, and five solo exhibitions, both locally and internationally.

His current body of work, Emhlabeni, reflects the social, political, and spiritual landscape of contemporary South Africa and explores the concept of land as identity. Khumalo approaches the theme of land through the lens of drawing. His renderings depict fragments of land as testimonies of dispossession, of illegal occupation as a form of protest, and of the erosion of hope. This is contrasted by his use of Baba Wethu Osezulwini (a prayer), which portrays land as a refuge, a space of faith and healing.

A graduate in printmaking from Artist Proof Studios, his preferred media include charcoal, coffee stains, and pastel on paper, though he also occasionally produces etchings. His work is a reflection of his lived experiences and close observations, always seeking a narrative that traces even the faintest form of justice and reparation, spiritual, social, or political.