Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude
Biography
Born in 1988 in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe
Born and raised in Mbare, Harare, Zimbabwe’s most vibrant and notorious ghetto, Nyaude works against the sweeping identity, which has been defined for Zimbabweans by the voice of the state and domestic and international media. His images oscillated between figuration, abstraction and hallucination, drawing from the restless energy of his neighbourhood and its youth, in a country, where more than 70% of the population is under the age of 30. Living on the edge between survival and chaos has been a call to poetry, swinging between brutal and sentimental but almost invariably cynical and satirical. His gesturally rendered effigies of traditional proverbs and poignant vernacular idioms, defy characterisation other than the bursting drive to attain human dignity and quality of life that frequently appears beyond the reach of dreams. Nyaude’s work has achieved wide international critical and collector recognition, in 2018 he presented a major body of work in the USA as part of Songs for Sabotage at the New Museum Triennial. Nyaude’s work is in the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Museum of Contemporary African Art Al Maaden (Macaal), Rubell Family Collection, Jorge Perez personal collection and numerous notable private collections.
Education
2008: National Certificate in Fine Art - National Gallery of Zimbabwe Visual Arts Studios
Solo and Two person Exhibitions
2024: Immanentize the Eschaton, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2023: EXPO Chicago, First Floor Gallery Harare, Chicago, USA
2022: Ziva Munhu Wako, First Floor Gallery Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2022: Negotiating Chaos: It’s the way it shatters that matters (Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude and Pebofatso Mokoena), Simone Subal Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
2022: The Joys of Self-Delusion, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
2021: Premonition of Civil Peace, Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis, Tunisia
2021: Grey Spaces, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2020: True Optimism (solo), Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
2019: Poetry of Rebels, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude/Song Yuanuyan, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
2019: Day and Night (Gresham Tapiwa Nyude and Wycliffe Mundopa), GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2019: Night and Day (Gresham Tapiwa Nyude and Wycliffe Mundopa), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2018: Kubatana, (Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude/Takunda Regis Billiat), Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK
2017: Mazino, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2016: Tomorrows/Today curated solo project Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2015: Harare >Mundopa, Nyaude – Hazard Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2013: In Black and White (Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude/Anne Zanele Mutema), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
Group Exhibitions
2025: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2025: Taona, S& Projects, First Floor Gallery Harare, New York City, USA
2024: Messe Messe 2024 (group exhibition), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2024: Kuvhunura: The Harare School, Fondation Blachère, Bonnieux, France
2024: FNB Art Joburg, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2024: MIART, First Floor Gallery Harare, Milan, Italy
2024: Vanguard Onwards, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
2024: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2023: Paper Weight (Group Exhibition), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2023: ART021 Shanghai Art Fair, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
2023: Sovereign Art Prize finalist exhibition, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
2023: Messe Messe, First Floor Gallery Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2022: Unruly Paradigms (Group Exhibition) at Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, Vanguard Gallery, London, UK
2021: Mirror Mirror! - South SouthVeza, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2020: Level | Mosi-oa-tunya, First Floor Gallery Vic Falls, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2019: Harare Fauves (Mundopa, Nyaude, Teede), Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018: Ex Africa aemperaliquidnovi, Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober, Sa Bassa Blanca Museum, Mallorca, Spain
2018: Songs for Sabotage, New Museum Triennial, New York, USA
2017: Another Antipodes/urban axis touring exhibition of Southern African contemporary art, PS Art Space, Freemantle, Australia
2016: 'I am because you are', First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2015: Flaunt, Africa New Wave Now – Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
2014: 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2014, London, UK
2014: Wayland Rudd Collection at First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2013: 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair inaugural edition, First Floor Gallery Harare, London, UK
2013: Berliner Liste Art Fair 2013 - Berlin, Germany
2012: Young and Awakening, Gorgan Museum, Golestan, Iran
2012: Raising the Roof, Tambira gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
2012: Tradition religion and culture at Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
2011: Freedom revisited at Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
2011: Artists in the Stream 1 at Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
2010: Walls exhibition at Gallery Delta - Harare, Zimbabwe
2010: African Colour, Soho Gallery, Maputo, Mozambique
2010: Zimbabwe @ 30 at National Gallery - Harare, Zimbabwe
2008: Dumela Word Exhibition - Georgia, USA
2008: COTTCO exhibition National Gallery of Zimbabwe - Harare, Zimbabwe
2008: Final Year exhibition National Gallery of Zimbabwe - Harare, Zimbabwe
Residencies
2021: Selma Feriani Gallery – Le Studio residency, Tunis, Tunisia
2018: Africa First Residency, START, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017: The Gathering, international artist forum (with Theaster Gates, William Kentridge and Wengechi Mutu, hosts Michael Armitage, Mukami Kuria), Kenya
2017: Another Antipodes project residency selected artist, Perth, Australia
2015: Asiko Art School and Residency (Bisi Silva founder and coordinator), Maputo, Mozambique
Selected Collections
Fondation Gandur, Geneva
Jorge Perez Personal Collection, Miami
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober, Mallorca, Spain
Tiroche de Leon Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel
Museum of African Contemporary Art al Maaden (Macaal), Marrakech, Morocco
Awards
2024: FNB Art Prize
Born in 1988 in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe
Born and raised in Mbare, Harare, Zimbabwe’s most vibrant and notorious ghetto, Nyaude works against the sweeping identity, which has been defined for Zimbabweans by the voice of the state and domestic and international media. His images oscillated between figuration, abstraction and hallucination, drawing from the restless energy of his neighbourhood and its youth, in a country, where more than 70% of the population is under the age of 30. Living on the edge between survival and chaos has been a call to poetry, swinging between brutal and sentimental but almost invariably cynical and satirical. His gesturally rendered effigies of traditional proverbs and poignant vernacular idioms, defy characterisation other than the bursting drive to attain human dignity and quality of life that frequently appears beyond the reach of dreams. Nyaude’s work has achieved wide international critical and collector recognition, in 2018 he presented a major body of work in the USA as part of Songs for Sabotage at the New Museum Triennial. Nyaude’s work is in the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Museum of Contemporary African Art Al Maaden (Macaal), Rubell Family Collection, Jorge Perez personal collection and numerous notable private collections.
Education
2008: National Certificate in Fine Art - National Gallery of Zimbabwe Visual Arts Studios
Solo and Two person Exhibitions
2024: Immanentize the Eschaton, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2023: EXPO Chicago, First Floor Gallery Harare, Chicago, USA
2022: Ziva Munhu Wako, First Floor Gallery Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2022: Negotiating Chaos: It’s the way it shatters that matters (Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude and Pebofatso Mokoena), Simone Subal Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
2022: The Joys of Self-Delusion, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
2021: Premonition of Civil Peace, Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis, Tunisia
2021: Grey Spaces, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2020: True Optimism (solo), Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
2019: Poetry of Rebels, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude/Song Yuanuyan, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
2019: Day and Night (Gresham Tapiwa Nyude and Wycliffe Mundopa), GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2019: Night and Day (Gresham Tapiwa Nyude and Wycliffe Mundopa), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2018: Kubatana, (Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude/Takunda Regis Billiat), Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK
2017: Mazino, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2016: Tomorrows/Today curated solo project Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2015: Harare >Mundopa, Nyaude – Hazard Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2013: In Black and White (Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude/Anne Zanele Mutema), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
Group Exhibitions
2025: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2025: Taona, S& Projects, First Floor Gallery Harare, New York City, USA
2024: Messe Messe 2024 (group exhibition), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2024: Kuvhunura: The Harare School, Fondation Blachère, Bonnieux, France
2024: FNB Art Joburg, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2024: MIART, First Floor Gallery Harare, Milan, Italy
2024: Vanguard Onwards, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
2024: Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2023: Paper Weight (Group Exhibition), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2023: ART021 Shanghai Art Fair, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
2023: Sovereign Art Prize finalist exhibition, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
2023: Messe Messe, First Floor Gallery Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2022: Unruly Paradigms (Group Exhibition) at Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, Vanguard Gallery, London, UK
2021: Mirror Mirror! - South SouthVeza, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2020: Level | Mosi-oa-tunya, First Floor Gallery Vic Falls, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2019: Harare Fauves (Mundopa, Nyaude, Teede), Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018: Ex Africa aemperaliquidnovi, Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober, Sa Bassa Blanca Museum, Mallorca, Spain
2018: Songs for Sabotage, New Museum Triennial, New York, USA
2017: Another Antipodes/urban axis touring exhibition of Southern African contemporary art, PS Art Space, Freemantle, Australia
2016: 'I am because you are', First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2015: Flaunt, Africa New Wave Now – Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
2014: 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2014, London, UK
2014: Wayland Rudd Collection at First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2013: 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair inaugural edition, First Floor Gallery Harare, London, UK
2013: Berliner Liste Art Fair 2013 - Berlin, Germany
2012: Young and Awakening, Gorgan Museum, Golestan, Iran
2012: Raising the Roof, Tambira gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
2012: Tradition religion and culture at Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
2011: Freedom revisited at Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
2011: Artists in the Stream 1 at Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
2010: Walls exhibition at Gallery Delta - Harare, Zimbabwe
2010: African Colour, Soho Gallery, Maputo, Mozambique
2010: Zimbabwe @ 30 at National Gallery - Harare, Zimbabwe
2008: Dumela Word Exhibition - Georgia, USA
2008: COTTCO exhibition National Gallery of Zimbabwe - Harare, Zimbabwe
2008: Final Year exhibition National Gallery of Zimbabwe - Harare, Zimbabwe
Residencies
2021: Selma Feriani Gallery – Le Studio residency, Tunis, Tunisia
2018: Africa First Residency, START, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017: The Gathering, international artist forum (with Theaster Gates, William Kentridge and Wengechi Mutu, hosts Michael Armitage, Mukami Kuria), Kenya
2017: Another Antipodes project residency selected artist, Perth, Australia
2015: Asiko Art School and Residency (Bisi Silva founder and coordinator), Maputo, Mozambique
Selected Collections
Fondation Gandur, Geneva
Jorge Perez Personal Collection, Miami
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober, Mallorca, Spain
Tiroche de Leon Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel
Museum of African Contemporary Art al Maaden (Macaal), Marrakech, Morocco
Awards
2024: FNB Art Prize