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Education

Ph.D., Art History, University of Toronto, Canada (2016-2021)
M.A., Art History, University of Toronto, Canada (2015-2016)
B.F.A. (Hons) & B.A., Art History, University of Auckland, New Zealand (2010-2014)

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Jackson State University (2021–Present)
Curator of the Permanent Collection, Jackson State University (2021–Present)
Course Instructor, University of Toronto (2018–2021)

Select Publications

Myburgh, B. “Lux Pinxit: Thomas Wilfred, Lumia, and the Medium of Light.” Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. Forthcoming December 2025.
Myburgh, B, and C. Meyer. “Intergenerational Father/Son Relationships: Past, Present, and Future.” The Researcher: Special Issue; Reimagining the Black Family, 31(2), 15-32. (2024)
Myburgh, B. “Andrei Pop: A Forest of Symbols.” Journal of the History of Science Society. 114(1), 207-208. (2023)
Myburgh, B. “Vertis Hayes and the Johnson Hall Carver Mural.” Mississippi Quarterly. 75(3), 229-251. (2022)
Myburgh, B. “Space-Time and Utopia: Notes on artistic engagement with physics from Cubism to Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.” Spontaneous Generations:A Journal for the History and Philosophy Science. 10(1), 54-62. (2022)

Conferences and Presentations

“Teaching AI in Art History,” University of Pittsburgh (January 2024)
“Working with the Inevitable: AI in the Classroom,” Jackson State University (April 2023)
Co-Chair, Black Digital Humanities Speaker Series (March 2023)
“Layers of Memory: Storytelling and Monuments in Augmented Reality,” Humanities Teaching Award presentation, Jackson State University (March 2023)
“Seeing is Sensing,” International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Montreal, Canada (2020)

Leadership and Strategic Initiatives

Co-Principal Investigator, Data.org / Microsoft AI Skills Grant ($250,000)
Co-Lead, Mississippi AI Educator Fellowship
Institutional Liaison, Adobe Creative Campus Designation, Jackson State University
Co-Founder, AI Agency Apprenticeship Program
Chair, Department of Art Gallery Committee, JSU
Teaching Fellow, Center for Teaching and Learning, JSU
Lead Organizer, Mississippi AI-Thon (2023–2024)

Curatorial Practice

Curator: Keep Us Afloat, Municipal Art Gallery, Jackson (2025)
Curator: The South Got Something to Say, Mississippi Arts Center (2024)
Co-curator and catalog editor, “Roy Lewis: Photographs from the 1973 Phillis Wheatley Festival” Johnson Hall Art Gallery (2023)
Co-curator and catalog editor, “Instrumental Avatars: Channeling Power Through Masks and Music” Johnson Hall Art Gallery (2023)
Co-curator, “(re)mediations” Municipal Art Gallery, (2023)
Myburgh, B. and Aaron Throness eds. “Navigating Visions of the Asia and Pacific Worlds,” Special Issue: Re:Locations Journal of the Asia-Pacific World. December 2020.

Awards and Honors