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Portia Zvavahera
Zimbabwean painter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Portia Zvavahera (born 1985) is a Zimbabwean painter.[1][2][3]
Early life
Zvavahera was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1985.[4] She studied at the BAT Visual Art Studios at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe from 2003 to 2004 and obtained a diploma in visual arts from Harare Polytechnic in 2006,[5] where she was taught by the Zimbabwean artist and printmaker Chiko Chazunguza.[6] Many of her paintings incorporate block-printed elements using oil-based printing ink.[7]
Career
In 2009, Zvavahera was an artist-in-residence at Greatmore Studios in Cape Town, South Africa.[6] Zvavahera represented Zimbabwe at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 as part of the exhibition Dudziro: Interrogating the Visions of Religious Beliefs.[6] She joined Stevenson, South Africa, in 2013.[5] Previously, Zvavahera exhibited her work at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and at Gallery Delta.[5]
She won South Africa's Tollman Award for the Visual Arts in 2013 and South Africa's FNB (First National Bank) Art Prize in 2014.[6][8] In 2017, Zvavahera participated in a three-month residency at the Gasworks in London, United Kingdom, supported by the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean (ICAIO).[7]
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- Kettle’s Yard - Cambridge, United Kingdom (October 2024 to February 2025)[10][11][12]
- CaixaForum - Madrid - Revered and Feared. Feminine Power in Art and Belief (2024)[4]
- Shah Garg Foundation - New York - Making Their Mark (2023)[13]
- Museum de Fundatie - Zwolle, Netherlands - Brave New World: 16 Painters for the 21st Century, (2023)[14]
- Musée d’Art Moderne - Paris, France The Power of My Hands (2021)[15]
- David Zwirner - London, United Kingdom and New York, USA (2020–21)[16]
- Pérez Art Museum - Miami, USA - Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M Pérez Collection (2020)[17]
- El Espacio 23 - Miami, USA - Witness: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection (2020)[18]
- The Warehouse - Dallas Psychic Wounds: On Art and Trauma (2020)[4]
- 6th Lubumbashi Biennale, Democratic Republic of Congo - Future Genealogies: Stories from the Equatorial Line (2019)[19]
- De 11 Lijnen - Belgium - A dialogue with Gustav Klimt (2019 - 2020) [20]
- Oaxaca - Hacer Noche/Crossing Night (2018)[4]
- Garage Museum of Contemporary Art - Moscow - The Fabric of Felicity (2018)[21]
- Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town- Five Bhobh – Painting at the End of an Era (2018)[22]
- 10th Berlin Biennale - We don't need another hero (2018)[23]
- Minneapolis Institute of Art - The Contested Body (2017)[24]
- Minneapolis Institute of Art - steirischer herbst festival, Graz - Body Luggage (2016)[25]
- Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Mauritius - I Love You Sugar Kane (2016) [4]
- Le Brass Cultural Centre of Forest, Belgium - African Odyssey (2015)[4]
- Foundation De 11 - Lijnen, Oudenburg - Liberated Subjects: Present Tense (2015)[26]
- Kunsthalle Faust - Hannover, Germany - Shifting Africa - What the Future Holds, Mediations Biennale (2014)[27]
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