Kresiah Mukwazhi è nata ad Harare, Zimbabwe, nel 1992.

È stata selezionata, insieme ad altri artisti, per rappresentare lo Zimbabwe in occasione della Biennale di Venezia del 2022. 

Ha studiato arti visive e fotografia presso la National Gallery School of Visual Art ad Harare e il Design e Market Photo Workshop a Johannesburg. È stata ospite presso la residenza Nafasi Art Space che si è conclusa nel 2019 presso Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania con diversi workshop e una conferenza dell'artista.

Tra le mostre personali ricordiamo, nel 2018 Bedroom Interview presso SMAC Gallery, Capetown; nel 2016 In My Private Momentspresso la National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulayano e la recente collettiva dal titolo Five Bhobh – Painting at the End of an Era presso lo Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) a Capetown. Attualmente vive e lavora ad Harare, Zimbabwe.

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MOSTRE PERSONALI ​

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2021
Zviratidzo. blank projects, Cape Town

2020
Mukando, Jan Kaps, Cologne

2018

Bedroom Interview SMAC Gallery, Cape Town

 

MOSTRE COLLETTIVE ​

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2022 
Zimbabwean Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 

2021
OFF ROAD II, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

2020
Love your symptoms but not too much, blank projects, Cape Town
Materiality, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town

2019

African Textures. Jeanne Gaigher, Kresiah Mukwazhi, Marlene Steyn, Osart Gallery, Milan.

The Female Line, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town.

Conversations in Texture, Berman Contemporary, Johannesburg.

Legitimate Expectations, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg.

Not the Usual Suspects, Iziko Museums, Cape Town.

Five Bhobh – Painting at the End of an Era, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA), Cape Town. 

Prism of Freedom, Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision. 

PARA-OTHER, Chale Wote Street Festival, Accra.

2017

That, Around Which the Universe Revolves, Contemporary at Njelele Art Station, Zimbabwe. 

Disclosure, Cape Town, SMAC Gallery.

2016

Nhaka/Ilifa/Inheritance, Zimbabwe Annual Exhibition National Gallery of Zimbabwe. 

In My Private Moments, National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

Beyond the Body, Tsoko Gallery, Zimbabwe.

2015

GWANZA month of photography, Village Unhu, Zimbabwe.

Out of the Darkness, National gallery of Zimbabwe.

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BIENNALI

 

2022

59. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy