Grace Nyahangare
Biography
Born 1996 Harare, Zimbabwe
Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe
Grace Nyahangare is a young painter, who is building up her practice on a foundation of printmaking and photography, which inform both the technical and intellectual elements of her work. Her dreamlike, surreal and dynamically passionate canvases are the result of passing through numerous metamorphoses starting as observations and photographs which are then made into monotypes which then acquire a new environment on canvases in which paint is also transformed through interaction with printers ink to yield a poignancy and otherworldliness. In her early twenties Grace spent three years living and working in the UAE, which has impacted both her aesthetic and ideas about self as a person but also as a woman and now as a young mother. Detachment, reflection and recomposition are synergistic with the ideas that Grace has been working with from the earliest stages of her evolution as an artist, and trying to find whole in a space of cultural and relationship otherness. Grace joined First Floor Gallery Harare in 2023, after completing a three month residency in 2022 she had her first solo in 2023 titled 'Hatikanganwe Asi Tinopora'.
Education
2017: Certificate National Gallery school of Visual Arts and Design
Exhibitions
2025: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2025: Goya & Africa (online exhibition), Brundyn Arts & Culture, Cape Town, South Africa
2024: Messe Messe 2024 (group exhibition), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2024: Methods of Flight (with Amanda Mushate), Southern Guild Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2024: Kuvhunura: The Harare School (Group exhibition), Fondation Blachère, Bonnieux, France
2024: FNB Art Joburg, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2024: RMB Latitudes Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2024: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2023: Free Spirit (with Mavis Tauzeni and Simhle Plaatjies), Oop Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
2023: Hatikanganwe Asi Tinopora, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2023: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2022: Helen Leiros Legacy Exhibition, Nhaka Gallery
2022: Tribute Exhibition, Sky Salanje and the wailers studio Chitungwiza Nhimbe Studio
2021: Chizvinozvino Exhibition Alliance Franchise de Harare
2020: Artists in the stream X, Gallery Delta
2019: State of Mind exhibition, Gallery Delta
2019: Engaging The 45th Year exhibition, Gallery Delta
2019: Women’s Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2019: Beyond Township walls, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2019: Annual Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta
2019: Maokwo, Refugee Week, United Kingdom
2018: Line and form Exhibition, Gallery Delta Harare Zimbabwe
2018: Women’s Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe Curated by Raphael Chikukwa
2018: Afro-native Exhibition, Lusaka embassy Zambia
2018: Young Artists in the Stream Exhibition, Gallery Delta Curated by Helen Leiros and Derrick Huggins
2017: Full Circle Exhibition, V54 Residence, Hong Kong
2017: Kuboneshango Women’s Exhibition, Henry Tayali Gallery, Zambia
2017: Contempo Group Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2017: Artists in the Stream Exhibition, Gallery Delta
2017: ICAC At Work Lettera27 exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2017: Zvirikufaya Exhibition, Tsoko Gallery Harare Zimbabwe
2017: Rough Diamonds Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2016: Vana Baba Vanhasi/Fathers of today Exhibition Swedish embassy and National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2016: Green shoots exhibition National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2016: Young Artist Exhibition, Gallery Delta
2015: Annual Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2015: Green shoots exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Workshops
2022: UNESCO Resiliart Accelerator, Motorepublik
2018: AtWork Workshop by Moleskine foundation Conducted by Simon Njami, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare
2018: PPC Imaginarium Workshop, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2017: CTG gallery and Dzimbanhete art interactions international artists workshop Admire Kamudzengerere ,Rachel Monosov, ChikoChazunguza
2016: SVA New York Animation workshop, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2015: John Kotze Painting workshop National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Residencies
2022: 3-months Residency First Floor Gallery Harare
2017: 1 year Residency National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Selected Bibliography
Moleskine Foundation/ Lettera 27 Atwork
https://artfacts.net/artist/grace-nyahangare/674944
https://gallerydelta.com/news/2018/line-and-form/
https://gallerydelta.com/news/2020/artists-in-the-stream-x/
https://medium.com/@ArtReViewZim/mind-reading-79df6ca982bf
Awards
2023: Best Printmaking Award @ZVAA
2016: Vana baba vanhasi/ father’s of today top 10 Photography Award
Born 1996 Harare, Zimbabwe
Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe
Grace Nyahangare is a young painter, who is building up her practice on a foundation of printmaking and photography, which inform both the technical and intellectual elements of her work. Her dreamlike, surreal and dynamically passionate canvases are the result of passing through numerous metamorphoses starting as observations and photographs which are then made into monotypes which then acquire a new environment on canvases in which paint is also transformed through interaction with printers ink to yield a poignancy and otherworldliness. In her early twenties Grace spent three years living and working in the UAE, which has impacted both her aesthetic and ideas about self as a person but also as a woman and now as a young mother. Detachment, reflection and recomposition are synergistic with the ideas that Grace has been working with from the earliest stages of her evolution as an artist, and trying to find whole in a space of cultural and relationship otherness. Grace joined First Floor Gallery Harare in 2023, after completing a three month residency in 2022 she had her first solo in 2023 titled 'Hatikanganwe Asi Tinopora'.
Education
2017: Certificate National Gallery school of Visual Arts and Design
Exhibitions
2025: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2025: Goya & Africa (online exhibition), Brundyn Arts & Culture, Cape Town, South Africa
2024: Messe Messe 2024 (group exhibition), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2024: Methods of Flight (with Amanda Mushate), Southern Guild Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2024: Kuvhunura: The Harare School (Group exhibition), Fondation Blachère, Bonnieux, France
2024: FNB Art Joburg, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2024: RMB Latitudes Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2024: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2023: Free Spirit (with Mavis Tauzeni and Simhle Plaatjies), Oop Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
2023: Hatikanganwe Asi Tinopora, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2023: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2022: Helen Leiros Legacy Exhibition, Nhaka Gallery
2022: Tribute Exhibition, Sky Salanje and the wailers studio Chitungwiza Nhimbe Studio
2021: Chizvinozvino Exhibition Alliance Franchise de Harare
2020: Artists in the stream X, Gallery Delta
2019: State of Mind exhibition, Gallery Delta
2019: Engaging The 45th Year exhibition, Gallery Delta
2019: Women’s Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2019: Beyond Township walls, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2019: Annual Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta
2019: Maokwo, Refugee Week, United Kingdom
2018: Line and form Exhibition, Gallery Delta Harare Zimbabwe
2018: Women’s Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe Curated by Raphael Chikukwa
2018: Afro-native Exhibition, Lusaka embassy Zambia
2018: Young Artists in the Stream Exhibition, Gallery Delta Curated by Helen Leiros and Derrick Huggins
2017: Full Circle Exhibition, V54 Residence, Hong Kong
2017: Kuboneshango Women’s Exhibition, Henry Tayali Gallery, Zambia
2017: Contempo Group Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2017: Artists in the Stream Exhibition, Gallery Delta
2017: ICAC At Work Lettera27 exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2017: Zvirikufaya Exhibition, Tsoko Gallery Harare Zimbabwe
2017: Rough Diamonds Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2016: Vana Baba Vanhasi/Fathers of today Exhibition Swedish embassy and National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2016: Green shoots exhibition National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2016: Young Artist Exhibition, Gallery Delta
2015: Annual Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2015: Green shoots exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Workshops
2022: UNESCO Resiliart Accelerator, Motorepublik
2018: AtWork Workshop by Moleskine foundation Conducted by Simon Njami, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare
2018: PPC Imaginarium Workshop, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2017: CTG gallery and Dzimbanhete art interactions international artists workshop Admire Kamudzengerere ,Rachel Monosov, ChikoChazunguza
2016: SVA New York Animation workshop, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2015: John Kotze Painting workshop National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Residencies
2022: 3-months Residency First Floor Gallery Harare
2017: 1 year Residency National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Selected Bibliography
Moleskine Foundation/ Lettera 27 Atwork
https://artfacts.net/artist/grace-nyahangare/674944
https://gallerydelta.com/news/2018/line-and-form/
https://gallerydelta.com/news/2020/artists-in-the-stream-x/
https://medium.com/@ArtReViewZim/mind-reading-79df6ca982bf
Awards
2023: Best Printmaking Award @ZVAA
2016: Vana baba vanhasi/ father’s of today top 10 Photography Award