Kudzanai-Violet Hwami

Born in Gutu, Zimbabwe, 1993. Lives and works in London.

Born in Gutu, Zimbabwe in 1993, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami currently lives and works in the UK and is completing an MFA at the Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University. In 2016, the same year she graduated from Wimbledon College of Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, she was awarded the Clyde & Co. Award and the Young Achiever of the Year Award at the Zimbabwean International Women’s Awards, as well as being shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries. In 2017, Tyburn Gallery, London, held a solo exhibition of Hwami’s work entitled If You Keep Going South You’ll Meet Yourself. In 2019, Hwami presented work at the 58th Venice Biennale as part of the Zimbabwe Pavilion, the youngest artist to participate in the Biennale. Also in 2019, Hwami mounted her first institutional solo exhibition, (15,952km) via Trans–Sahara Hwy N1 at Gasworks, London.
 
Recent group exhibitions include Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France (2018); Five Bhobh – Painting at the End of an Era, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa (2018);Vos désirs sont les nôtres, Triangle France, Marseille, France (2018);Talisman in the Age of Difference,Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (2018); Ladies by Ladies, Espace Art Absolument, Paris, France (2018); Afriques: artistes d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, Fondation Clément, Martinique (2018); Discoloured Margins, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe (2017); and I SEE YOU, Victoria Miro, London, UK (2020).
 
Forthcoming group exhibitions include The Power of My Hands, curated by Suzanna Sousa and Odile Burluraux, at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (opening January 2021) and Ubuntu: A Lucid Dream, curated by Marie-Ann Yemsi, at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (opening June 2021).

Image credits
Jo Metson Scott