Nyoni is an Associate Professor and Head of the Visual Arts Department at Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Prior to this he served as Senior lecturer in Printmaking at the Department of Visual Art at the University of Stellenbosch after his position of Director at the Centre for Visual Art, UKZN. Apart from being a practicing artist, Nyoni also lectures in Printmaking and Drawing. His main interests lie in race, gender, the visual politics of representation, self-representation and is currently reading for a PhD on Diasporic Subjectivity. Nyoni has served as a national and regional selector for the Sanlam Portrait Award, Absa Atelier and Sasol New Signatures competition, the Standard Bank National Arts Foundation Artistic Committee, as well as serving on a variety of advisory boards. He has shown widely on a national and international level and continues to expand his international profile as artist, educator and curator.  He continues to make his own work at any opportunity he has