Mostaff Muchawaya è nato nel 1981 a Nyazura, Manicaland, in una zona montuosa a est dello Zimbabwe. Vive e lavora ad Harare. Si è formato presso la National Gallery of Zimbabwe School of Visual Arts and Design dal 2002 al 2003.

Muchawaya fa riferimento alla profonda connessione con le sue esperienze personali e la sua eredità culturale, inscindibili dalla “sua gente” e dal contesto. L'interesse per l'arte è nato quando l'artisa era molto giovane e fabbricava da solo i giochi in argilla o ritraeva i cani della fattoria in cui era cresciuto.

 

Nella sua opera, fa riferimenti continui alla sua formazione rurale. Muchawaya ha preso parte a numerose esposizioni, tra cui ‘Memory / Ndangariro’, una mostra personale presso SMAC Gallery a Cape Town (Sudafrica: 2017); ‘Landmark’ presso Gallery Delta ad Harare (Zimbabwe: 2016); ‘Mharidzo’ e ‘Zimbabwe Meets Italy’ alla National Gallery of Zimbabwe diHarare (Zimbabwe: 2015 and 2018, respectively), ‘My Entire People and Places,’ personale presso Alliance Francaise ad Harare, organizzata in collaborazione con Village Unhu (Zimbabwe: 2013). Le opere di Mostaff Muchawaya erano parte della mostra Five Bhobh – Painting at the End of an Era (2018 – 2019) presso lo ZEITZ MOCAA di Cape Town.

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MOSTRE PERSONALI

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2020

Mostaff Muchawaya – Kwandinobva, SMAC Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa

2018

Mostaff Muchawaya - Zviso Zvangu, SMAC Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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2017

Mostaff Muchawaya - Memory / Ndangarirom, SMAC Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

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2013

My Entire People and Places at Alliance Française, in collaboration with Village Unhu in Harare, Zimbabwe

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MOSTRE COLLETTIVE

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2022

Shanduko, Osart Gallery, Milan

UNSETTLED, Duende Art Projects, Zwartzusters Monastery, Antwerp, Belgium

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2021

In Your Shadow. Masking Realities, SMAC Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
 

2020

A Show Of Solidarity, SMAC Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

22nd Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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2019

Holding Still: Psychology And Portraiture, SMAC GALLERY,Johannesburg, South Africa

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2018

Five Bhobh - Painting At The End Of An Era, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa – MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa

Zimbabwe Meets Italy at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

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2017

X Part III - Group Exhibition, SMAC Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Disclosure - Group Exhibition, SMAC Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

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2016

Landmark, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe

Terra IV, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe

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2015

Terra III, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe

Mharidzo at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare

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2014

Artists in the Stream V at Gallery Delta in Harare, Zimbabwe

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2013

100 Hundred at Old Mutual Theatre in Harare, Zimbabwe

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