Kudzanai Chiurai

Kudzanai Chiurai (bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1981) ka o nyɛ Zimbabwe nuuni tuunbaŋda. O tuma jendila peentibu, vidionima yaabu ni anfooninima n-ti pahi Zimbabwe kaya ni taɣada kpaŋsibu.

Tum yuuni 2003 o ko ni daavtum tuunshɛŋa puuni, o ni mali binshɛŋa o nuuni nyɛla din be Museum of Modern Art din be New York City, Museum für Moderne Kunst din be Frankfurt, Victoria and Albert Museum din be London, ni "documenta" din be Kassel, Germany. Forbes ka kali pahi "Thirteen Africans To Watch ni yuuni 2013". Yuuni 2015, bɛ daa kali o pahi "15 Young African Creatives Rebranding Africa",   Forbes n daa kali o pahi.

Kudzanai tuma pa la nuuni tuunbaŋsim ko, o lahi nyɛla ŋun niŋdi yɛltɔɣataɣimalisi ni siyaasa Zimbabwe tingbani ni.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
2003: The revolution will not be televised, Brixton Art Gallery, London
2013: 16SNLV, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015: Selections From Revelations, Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts, Brooklyn
2016: Kabbo Ka Muwala / The Girl’s Basket, National Gallery of Zimbabwe

Group exhibitions
2005: Reconciliation, University of Pretoria
2008: Africa Now, Round Tower, Copenhagen; Northern Norway Art Centre, Lofoten, Norway; and Tampere art museum, Finland
2009: Us, Johannesburg Art Gallery
2010: SPace, MuseuMAfricA, Johannesburg, South Africa
2011: Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2011: über(W)unden – Art in troubled times, Goethe-Institut South Africa
2011: Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photograph, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
2011: Art Basel: Miami Beach, Miami, Florida, USA
2011: Ars 11 at Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland https://kiasma.fi/kiasma-lehti/pdf/k48_en.pdf 
2012: dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany

Kundivihira

General references
Dreyer, Elfriede. "Dystopia in Kudzanai Chiruai's Representation of Globalising Johannesburg.", Representation and Spatial Practices in Urban South Africa, edited by Leona, Farber, Research Centre, Visual Identities in Art and Design, 2008, pp. 146–155.
Klein, Melanie. "Between History, Politics and the Self: Photographic Portraiture in Contemporary Art from Africa." Listening to Africa. Anglophone African Literatures and Cultures, edited by Jana Gohrisch and Ellen Grünkemeier, Heidelberg, 2012, pp. 69– 9.

The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists. Edited by Ambrožič Mara and Simon Njami, Kerber, 2014.

Mabuse, Nkepile. "Kudzanai Chiurai: The Artist Who Stood up to Mugabe." CNN, January 2015
"Transitions: States of Being."  Zuckerman Museum of Art. 
"Kudzanai Chiurai's Artwork." Digital Meets Culture, 12 March 2013.

Category:1981 births
Category:Living people
Category:Artists from Harare
Category:University of Pretoria alumni
Category:21st-century Zimbabwean painters
Category:Zimbabwean sculptors
Category:Zimbabwean activists
Category:Mixed-media artists