Helen Teede
Biography
Born 1989 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Helen Teede was born and brought up in Zimbabwe. She has recently returned to Zimbabwe from Italy having completed her Masters in Visual Art at IUAV University of Venice with 110/110 and Honours. Her thesis, “Phenomenology of Painting as an Intersectional Medium” reflects on storytelling through painting as a medium that comprises ongoing formations, relying on situated knowledge and material thinking as ways of knowing that rejects ideas of total, objective knowledge, and embraces the importance of process, curiosity, failure and the acceptance of paradox. She has worked as an artist since 2013, after completing her BFA at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, joining First Floor Gallery Harare in 2015 and participating in numerous group exhibitions, including a survey of contemporary Zimbabwean painting at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art in 2018, a number of two person-shows, as well as five solo exhibitions locally and internationally. She currently lives in Harare, working as an artist and researcher with First Floor Gallery Harare.
Education
2020 MA Visual Art (cum laude), Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy
2012: BFA Michelis School of Fine Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
2008: Florence University of the Arts, Florence, Italy
Exhibitions
2021: Mirror Mirror! - South South Veza, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2020: Level | Mosi-oa-tunya, First Floor Gallery Vic Falls, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
2019: Bare Limbs - Solo Exhibition, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2019: Harare Fauves (Mundopa, Nyaude, Teed), Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019: Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2018: Next Level, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2018: Cape Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, cape Town, South Africa
2017: FNB Joburg Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2017: AKAA Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Paris, France
2017: Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
2017: “Tomorrow’s Today” Cape Town Art Fair special project, First Floor Gallery Harare/Showcase Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016: “Harare: Mwandiambira+Tauzeni+Teede” Hazard Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016: FNB Joburg Art Fair 2016, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016: I am because you are - Group Show, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2016: “It is without.” Solo Show, First Floor Gallery: Harare, Zimbabwe
2016: "Excerpts", Solo Show, Showcase: Dubai, U.A.E.
2015: "The Material Presence of the Past", Solo Show, Showcase: Dubai, U.A.E
2015: "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark", Solo Show,. Amanzi: Harare, Zimbabwe
2015: "Waste no Waste, Trash is Treasure", Group Show, Italian Ambassador's Residence: Harare, Zimbabwe
2015: "Chimuti, Pepa, Dombo" (Wood, Paper, Rock) . Group Show. Showcase: Dubai, U.A.E
2014: "IndustrArt", Group Show. Nigel Joscelyne: Harare, Zimbabwe
2014: "Modern Painting", Group Show, Kalk Bay Modern: Cape Town, South Africa
2014: "Scripts of Our Unspoken Words", Group Show, Showcase: Dubai, U.A.E
2013: "Greatest Hits of 2012", Group Show, AVA Gallery: Cape Town, South Africa
2012: "Mistakes", Group Show, 50 Canterbury Street: Cape Town, South Africa
2012: "GRAD", Group Show, Michaelis School of Fine Art: Cape Town, South Africa
2008: FUA Graduate Show, Florence University of the Arts: Florence, Italy.
2008: "Dialoghi Muti", Group Show, Florence University of the Arts: Florence, Italy.
2008: “We Still have the Sun”, Solo Show, Richard Rennie: Harare, Zimbabwe
