BIOGRAPHY
Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude (b. 1988, Zimbabwe) lives and works in Harare. Born and raised in Mbare, Harare and Zimbabwe’s most vibrant and notorious ghetto, Nyaude works against the sweeping identity, which has been defined for Zimbabweans by the voice of the state and domestic and international media. Nyaude studied Fine Art at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe Visual Arts Studios which he graduated in 2008.
His images oscillated between guration, abstraction and hallucination, drawing from restless energy of hisneighbourhood and its youth. Living on the edge between survival and chaos, has been a call to poetry, swinging between brutal and sentimental but almost invariably cynical and satirical. His gesturally rendered effigies of proverbs and poignant vernacular idioms, defy characterisation other than the bursting drive to attain human dignity and quality of life that frequently appears beyond the reach of dreams. @ courtesy of First Floor Gallery & the artist
Solo Exhibitions
- Joys of Self-Delusion at Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China (2022)
- Premonition of Civil Peace at Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis, Tunisia (2021)
- Grey Spaces at First Floor Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe (2021)
- True Optimism at Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China (2020)
- Mazino at First Floor Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe (2017)
Group Exhibitions
- Negotiating Chaos: It’s the way it shatters that matters - Duo show at Simone Subal Gallery, New York, USA (2022)
- Expression Obsession Connection at Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (2022)
- Season of Migration at Grove Collective, London, UK (2021)
- Africa On My Mind at Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, USA (2021)
- Allegory & Intent at Nomad Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2021)
- Mirror Mirror! – part of South South Veza, with First Floor Gallery, Zimbabwe (2021)
- Level | Mosi-oa-tunya with First Floor Gallery, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe (2020)
- Afrique Nouvelle Vague: Bullets, Fetishes, Paintings, Graffiti,... at Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, USA (2020)
- Day & Night at GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2019)
- Poetry of the Rebels at Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai (2019)
- Night & Day at First Floor Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe (2019)
- Harare Fauves at Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (2019)
- Kubatana at Kristin Hjellegjerde London (2018)
- Defying the narrative at Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, USA (2018)
- Next Level at First Floor Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe (2018)
- Another Antipodes/urban axis at PS Art Space, Fremantle, Australia (2017)
- Several group exhibitions (2008 - 2017)
Art Fairs
- Unruly Paradigms - during Frieze London Art Fair 2022, UK (with Vanguard Gallery)
- FNB Art Joburg 2022 (with First Floor Gallery)
- African Galleries Now on Artsy 2022 (with First Floor Gallery)
- Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2022, South Africa (with First Floor Gallery)
- Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China (with Vanguard Gallery)
- Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2021 - digital event in conjunction with Milan’s modern and contemporary art fair, miart (with First Floor Gallery)
- Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2020, South Africa (with First Floor Gallery)
- PRIZM Art Fair 2020 (with First Floor Gallery)
- FNB Art Joburg 2020 (with First Floor Gallery)
- Alserkal Art Week Dubai 2020 (with Showcase Gallery)
- Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2020 (with First Floor Gallery)
MUSEUMS & BIENNIALS
- Art, a serious game at MACAAL Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden Marrakech, Morocco (2022)
- Songs for Sabotage at New Museum Triennial New York (2018)
- Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA
- National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare
Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude is representend by First Floor Gallery and Vanguard Gallery.
Instagram: @gresham_tapiwa_nyaude
