Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude
Born in 1988 in Harare, Zimbabwe
Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe
Born and raised in Mbare, Harare and 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 workis 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.
Key Exhibitions and Career Highlights
•2024 FNB Art Prize winner
•2024 Immanentize the Eschaton, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
•2023 EXPO Chicago, First Floor Gallery Harare, Chicago, USA
•2023 Sovereign Art Prize finalist exhibition, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
•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
•2021 Premonition of Civil Peace, Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis
•2021 Agency & Intent (Richard Butler Bowdon, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude & Helen Teede), Nomad Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
•2020 True Optimism – solo exhibition, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
•2020 Poetry of Rebels, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude - Song Yuanuyan, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
•2019 Night & Day - Day & Night - Mundopa/Nyaude, First Floor Gallery Harare/GNYP gallery, Berlin, Germany
•2019 Defying the Narratives, Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, USA
•2018 Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi - Sa Bassa Blanca Museum, Yannick & Ben Jokober Foundation, Mallorca, Spain
•2018 Songs for Sabotage, New Museum Triennial, New York, USA
•2017 Mazino, First Floor Gallery Harare, Zimbabwe
Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe
Born and raised in Mbare, Harare and 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 workis 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.
Key Exhibitions and Career Highlights
•2024 FNB Art Prize winner
•2024 Immanentize the Eschaton, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
•2023 EXPO Chicago, First Floor Gallery Harare, Chicago, USA
•2023 Sovereign Art Prize finalist exhibition, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
•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
•2021 Premonition of Civil Peace, Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis
•2021 Agency & Intent (Richard Butler Bowdon, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude & Helen Teede), Nomad Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
•2020 True Optimism – solo exhibition, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
•2020 Poetry of Rebels, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude - Song Yuanuyan, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
•2019 Night & Day - Day & Night - Mundopa/Nyaude, First Floor Gallery Harare/GNYP gallery, Berlin, Germany
•2019 Defying the Narratives, Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, USA
•2018 Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi - Sa Bassa Blanca Museum, Yannick & Ben Jokober Foundation, Mallorca, Spain
•2018 Songs for Sabotage, New Museum Triennial, New York, USA
•2017 Mazino, First Floor Gallery Harare, Zimbabwe
Helen Teede
Born 1989 in Harare, Zimbabwe
Lives and works between Harare, Zimbabwe and Margate, UK
Born in Zimbabwe and having studied in Cape Town and Florence, Helen Teede has been dividing her time between Venice and Harare having moved to Venice in 2017 for her Masters in Visual Art at IUAV University of Venice, Italy in 2020. Her research and thesis explored paint and painting as a medium and action to develop non-linear kind of storytelling.
Living between Italy and Zimbabwe for the past five years, she has become increasingly preoccupied with the role of place in the creative process. Dividing her studio between two cities, one land-locked and one almost overwhelmed by water, two continents, and two hemispheres with dramatic impact on perception colour and physical space. This binary has demanded a particular response in each space to retain integrity of a painting being a living medium tangibly and permanently connected to the world.
In this way place becomes a way of asserting the reality in context with intellectual human made mythologies and apprehensions making the canvas a space for reconciliation of myth and nature through the prism of history.
The Venice works float lightly on the canvas, privileging drawing and figure, in a city in which human presence in the environment is radically asserted conversely the Harare works settle heavily on the canvas, rich with impasto and explosive verdant hues that speak to a more prominent assertion of the natural world onto the human.
In this space the coexistence of fluid, queer and paradoxical ways of knowing, drawing on ecofeminism, phenomenology, mythology and art history becomes possible. The natural landscape becomes a generous and expansive stage for visual narratives, populated by bodies and storytelling equally ancient and forever urgent. In 2023 Teede was awarded the Tracey Emin inaugural artist residency in Margate.
Education and Training
Key Exhibitions and Career Highlights
•2024 Kuvhunura: The Harare School (Group exhibition), Fondation Blachère, Bonnieux, France
•2024 Looking Towards Freedom - Womxn Artists from Africa (Group exhibition), Strauss & Co, London, UK
•2024 Tracey Emin Artist Residency Group exhibition, Margate, UK
•2024 MIART, First Floor Gallery Harare, Milan, Italy
•2024 Landscape (group exhibition), Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
•2024 Solo Section, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
•2023 Paper Weight (Group Exhibition), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
•2023 Tracey Emin Residency, Margate, UK
•2023 Cocoon - Solo Exhibition, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
•2022 See You Through It (Group Exhibition), The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, works from the Collection of Brad & Gabrielle Schuller, Worcester, MA, USA
•2022 In the Zone (Group Exhibition), Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
•2022 Sovereign Art Prize finalist exhibition, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
•2021 Ubuntu, collective exhibition, (Africanah Art Foundation Curator) WTO biannual meeting, Geneva, Switzerland
•2021 Running – The New Contemporary (Will Wang Curator) Qingdao Art Museum, Shanghai, PRC
•2021 Artemisia, First Floor Gallery, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
•2021 Mirror Mirror, South South Veza, First Floor Gallery Harare, Zimbabwe
•2020-2021 Level Mosi-oa-Tunya, First Floor Gallery, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Lives and works between Harare, Zimbabwe and Margate, UK
Born in Zimbabwe and having studied in Cape Town and Florence, Helen Teede has been dividing her time between Venice and Harare having moved to Venice in 2017 for her Masters in Visual Art at IUAV University of Venice, Italy in 2020. Her research and thesis explored paint and painting as a medium and action to develop non-linear kind of storytelling.
Living between Italy and Zimbabwe for the past five years, she has become increasingly preoccupied with the role of place in the creative process. Dividing her studio between two cities, one land-locked and one almost overwhelmed by water, two continents, and two hemispheres with dramatic impact on perception colour and physical space. This binary has demanded a particular response in each space to retain integrity of a painting being a living medium tangibly and permanently connected to the world.
In this way place becomes a way of asserting the reality in context with intellectual human made mythologies and apprehensions making the canvas a space for reconciliation of myth and nature through the prism of history.
The Venice works float lightly on the canvas, privileging drawing and figure, in a city in which human presence in the environment is radically asserted conversely the Harare works settle heavily on the canvas, rich with impasto and explosive verdant hues that speak to a more prominent assertion of the natural world onto the human.
In this space the coexistence of fluid, queer and paradoxical ways of knowing, drawing on ecofeminism, phenomenology, mythology and art history becomes possible. The natural landscape becomes a generous and expansive stage for visual narratives, populated by bodies and storytelling equally ancient and forever urgent. In 2023 Teede was awarded the Tracey Emin inaugural artist residency in Margate.
Education and Training
- March 2023 - September 2024: Tracey Emin Art Residency
- 2020: Laurea Magistrale in Arti Visive (Masters in Visual Art), University IUAV, Venice, Italy. with 110/110 and Honours.
- 2013: Bachelor of Arts Honours in English Studies, with First Class at University of Cape Town, South Africa.
- 2012: Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Key Exhibitions and Career Highlights
•2024 Kuvhunura: The Harare School (Group exhibition), Fondation Blachère, Bonnieux, France
•2024 Looking Towards Freedom - Womxn Artists from Africa (Group exhibition), Strauss & Co, London, UK
•2024 Tracey Emin Artist Residency Group exhibition, Margate, UK
•2024 MIART, First Floor Gallery Harare, Milan, Italy
•2024 Landscape (group exhibition), Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
•2024 Solo Section, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
•2023 Paper Weight (Group Exhibition), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
•2023 Tracey Emin Residency, Margate, UK
•2023 Cocoon - Solo Exhibition, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
•2022 See You Through It (Group Exhibition), The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, works from the Collection of Brad & Gabrielle Schuller, Worcester, MA, USA
•2022 In the Zone (Group Exhibition), Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
•2022 Sovereign Art Prize finalist exhibition, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
•2021 Ubuntu, collective exhibition, (Africanah Art Foundation Curator) WTO biannual meeting, Geneva, Switzerland
•2021 Running – The New Contemporary (Will Wang Curator) Qingdao Art Museum, Shanghai, PRC
•2021 Artemisia, First Floor Gallery, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
•2021 Mirror Mirror, South South Veza, First Floor Gallery Harare, Zimbabwe
•2020-2021 Level Mosi-oa-Tunya, First Floor Gallery, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Troy Makaza
Born in 1995, Harare, Zimbabwe
Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe
Having specialized in painting in art school but always interested in form and texture, Makaza decided to develop his own hybrid medium which would enable him to unite his artistic goals. After experimenting with various materials, Makaza arrived at silicone a material which can be cast, painted with as well as woven and tied. Over the past eight years Makaza’s works progressively developed as an opportunity to speak both viscerally and philosophically to the issues Makaza finds compelling as a young Zimbabwean concerned with politics, history and power and their impact on daily lives of ordinary people as well as a globally engaged millennial. Resonating with traditional modes like weaving and tapestry but unequivocally contemporary, Makaza’s works articulate the conversation of what African and uniquely Zimbabwean contemporary can be – a paradigm internationally engaging and locally compelling. Makaza’s works has received early critical and collector acclaim, taking part in the 2018 survey of Zimbabwean contemporary art at Zeitz MoCAA, winning the Tomorrows/Today prize at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair in 2019, joining important institutional collections like that of Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden in Marrakech, Rollins College museum collection and noted private collections like Jorge Perez personal collection in Miami.
Key Exhibitions and Career Highlights
•2024 Art Basel Miami Beach, Galerie Poggi, Miami, USA
•2024 Kuvhunura: The Harare School, Fondation Blachère, Bonnieux, France
•2024 An Inner Sky, Museum of Sufi Art and Culture, Paris, France
•2024 This is my beloved son, with whom I am well pleased, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
•2023 Untwisting the Fantasy, Galerie Poggi, Paris, France
•2022 Kufa izuva rimwe, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
•2022 Instinct of great survivors, Primo Marella Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
•2021 Age of Displacement, Art Basel Miami Beach, Nova, First Floor Gallery Harare, Miami, USA
•2019 Tomorrows/Today (art fair prize winner)Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
•2018 Forever Neverland Solo, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
•2016 Bound Together solo, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe
Having specialized in painting in art school but always interested in form and texture, Makaza decided to develop his own hybrid medium which would enable him to unite his artistic goals. After experimenting with various materials, Makaza arrived at silicone a material which can be cast, painted with as well as woven and tied. Over the past eight years Makaza’s works progressively developed as an opportunity to speak both viscerally and philosophically to the issues Makaza finds compelling as a young Zimbabwean concerned with politics, history and power and their impact on daily lives of ordinary people as well as a globally engaged millennial. Resonating with traditional modes like weaving and tapestry but unequivocally contemporary, Makaza’s works articulate the conversation of what African and uniquely Zimbabwean contemporary can be – a paradigm internationally engaging and locally compelling. Makaza’s works has received early critical and collector acclaim, taking part in the 2018 survey of Zimbabwean contemporary art at Zeitz MoCAA, winning the Tomorrows/Today prize at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair in 2019, joining important institutional collections like that of Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden in Marrakech, Rollins College museum collection and noted private collections like Jorge Perez personal collection in Miami.
Key Exhibitions and Career Highlights
•2024 Art Basel Miami Beach, Galerie Poggi, Miami, USA
•2024 Kuvhunura: The Harare School, Fondation Blachère, Bonnieux, France
•2024 An Inner Sky, Museum of Sufi Art and Culture, Paris, France
•2024 This is my beloved son, with whom I am well pleased, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
•2023 Untwisting the Fantasy, Galerie Poggi, Paris, France
•2022 Kufa izuva rimwe, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
•2022 Instinct of great survivors, Primo Marella Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
•2021 Age of Displacement, Art Basel Miami Beach, Nova, First Floor Gallery Harare, Miami, USA
•2019 Tomorrows/Today (art fair prize winner)Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa
•2018 Forever Neverland Solo, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
•2016 Bound Together solo, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
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