Mukudzei Muzondo
Mukudzei Muzondo è nato nel 1983 a Kwekwe, Zimbabwe e attualmente vive e lavora nella capitale, Harare. Ha completato i suoi studi alla Peter Brich School of Art. In seguito è stato selezionato per essere artista in residenza alla National Gallery dello Zimbabwe. Si è laureato in Belle Arti presso l’Harare Polytechnic College. Mukudzei Muzondo ha partecipato a varie mostre personali e collettive, workshop internazionali e residenze d’arte. La sua ricerca è volta ad indagare i contesti storici e contemporanei, mettendo in discussione la condizione umana nella società urbana. Attraverso la sperimentazione di vari oggetti utilizzando mezzi diversi dalla serigrafia agli assemblaggi, le sue opere generano un’analisi sull’esistenza umana negli spazi sociali e politici. Evidenziando anche le ricerche contemporanee sull’identità e l’appartenenza, le sue opere sono un’introspezione basata sulla narrazione del corpo e della vita definita attraverso le esperienze. Le sue opere cercano di dare forma e significato all’articolarsi dello Stato dell’Essere.
Le sue opere sono presenti in collezioni private, Sudafrica, Mozambico, Zambia, Stati Uniti, Germania e Francia e in collezioni pubbliche National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare e FBC Bank, Harare Zimbabwe.
Mostre selezionate
2019 Allegories of Thoughts, Artillery Tribal and Contemporary Art, Harare Zimbabwe
2018 Thupelo International Artists Workshop Exhibition, Greatmore Studios Cape Town, South Africa
2018 Resurrection, Group Exhibition, Artillery Tribal and Contemporary Art, Harare Zimbabwe
2017 African Voices: Confronting the Frontiers of Reality
Being, solo exhibition, Amanzi Contemporary, Harare
Zimbabwe Annual Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2016 Matarenda, group exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare
Beyond the Body, group exhibition, Tsoko Gallery
Annual exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2011 Group exhibition EU Continental dialogues, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Group exhibition HIFA Beyond Borders, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Two man exhibition ZIMAGES, Zimbabwe German Society
2010 Group exhibition Drawins n graphics, Delta Gallery, Zimbabwe
Group exhibition, Facet, Zimbabwe Now, Delta Gallery, Zimbabwe
Group exhibition Activism against gender violence
Group exhibition Audacity of Hope, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
2009 Doula, Durban, Harare via Cape – Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa
WATI CHII? Group exhibition, HIFA, 2009
Group exhibition Unity, Delta Gallery, Zimbabwe
Group exhibition Cottco, National Gallery Zimbabwe
Group exhibition Walls, Delta Gallery, Zimbabwe
2008 Patsime Art Festival, AIDS AWARENESS, Harare
Group exhibition, Delta Gallery, Zimbabwe
Group Exhibition, Cardboard print, Dzimbanhete Art Interaction Centre, Zimbabwe
2007 Two man Exhibition Artist in Residence, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
COMESA Exhibition, Lusaka, Zambia
Group exhibition Mutare, National Gallery Zimbabwe
Expressions Zimbabwe, University of Avignon, France
2006 Final Year Exhibition, National Gallery Zimbabwe
Art for Hope, US Embassy, Zimbabwe
2005 Final Year Exhibition, National Gallery Zimbabwe
Residenze e Workshops
Ophans Bulawayo Workshop with Aina Arts based at Harvard University
Art Sense Workshop HIFA 2006
Cardboard Print Workshop, Dzimbanhete Arts Interactions, Zimbabwe
3-D Graphite Workshop, HIFA 2009, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Visiting Artist Residence Programme at Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa, 2009
AtWork Lettera 27 Workshop, 2017 National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Thupelo International Artists Workshop Exhibition, Greatmore Studios Cape Town, 2018
Premi
Second Prize, Drawing an Graphics category, Delta Gallery, Harare Zimbabwe
Second Prize, Painting category, Cottco, Natoinal Gallery of Zimbabwe
Second Prize, Drawing and Graphics category, Delta Gallery
