Thandiwe Msebenzi was born in 1991 and is a artist working in the medium of photography. She grew up in New Cross Roads Nyanga, Cape Town and graduated from Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2014. In her final year she was the recipient of the Tierney Photography Fellowship Award. In 2015 she became part of iQhiya collective taking part in AVA iQhiya solo show, FNB Joburg Art Fair, and Documenta 14. In 2016 Msebenzi was placed in the ABSA L'Atelier top ten and completed a four month residency at the Cape Town School of Photography culminating in a solo exhibition. She has been a speaker at the Design Indaba. Msebenzi’s latest solo show in 2019 showed at SMITH gallery.