Matthew Kyba is a Canadian curator and writer based in Michigan. He is currently Curatorial Assistant at the Mott-Warsh Collection in Flint, MI, a major collection dedicated to modern and contemporary art by artists of the African diaspora. His curatorial work focuses on contemporary art, Black visual culture, material experimentation, and the social conditions that shape bodies, images, memory, and institutions.

Kyba has organized exhibitions, publications, commissions, public programs, touring projects, and artist residencies across Canada and the United States. He previously served as Curator of the Fine Arts Center Galleries at Bowling Green State University, where he oversaw exhibition programming, collection stewardship, artist relations, publications, student engagement, and public programs.

His projects include Esmaa Mohamoud’s To Play in the Face of Certain Defeat, which toured to Museum London, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Ottawa Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Alberta. His work has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Ontario Trillium Foundation, including NEA support for How Do I Look and Canada Council support for After Images. His public-space commissioning work includes a project developed with Union Station and OCAD University, and Sutures received Exhibition of the Year recognition from the Ontario Arts Council.

His current research examines how contemporary artists give form to conditions often misread as private experience: exhaustion, isolation, depression, racialized and gendered labour, grief, care, and the pressures of neoliberal life. Across exhibitions, writing, and public programs, his work asks how art can make difficult social conditions visible, shared, and publicly discussable.