Born in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1981.

Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Curriculum

Education
 

2005
BA Fine Arts, University of Pretoria

Awards
 

2011
Third Prize, Cairo Biennale
 

2012
FNB Artist of the Year, South Africa

Film Festivals
 

2013
Sundance Film Festival
Melbourne Film Festival

Solo shows

2017
Regarding the Pain of Others, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
Kudzanai Chiurai / We Live in Silence, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Kudzanai Chiurai / We Live in Silence, Constitution Hill, Pretoria, South Africa

2015
Kudzanai Chiurai: Iyeza, RISD Museum, Rhode Island, USA
Selections from Revelations, MoCADA, New York, USA
REVELAÇÕES, Kulungwana Gallery, Maputo, Africa

2014
Defining the State of the Nation, Zeitz MOCAA Pavilion, Cape Town, South Africa

2013
Harvest of Thorns, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
16 SNLV, 50 GwiGwi Mrwebi Street, Johannesburg, South Africa
Front Page, Mallorca Landings, Mallorca, Spain

2012
Conflict resolution, Co-op, Johannesburg, South Africa

2011
State of the Nation, Goodman Gallery project space, Johannesburg, South Africa

2010
Its greener on the other side, Co-op, Johannesburg, South Africa
Communists and hot chicken wings: the birth of a new nation, Goodman Gallery project space, Johannesburg, South Africa

2009
Dying To Be Men, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2008
Yellow Lines, Obert Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa

2007
Graceland, Obert contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa

2005
Y propaganda, Obert contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa

2004
Correction: The Revolution Will Be Televised, Obert contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa

2003
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Brixton Art Gallery, London, UK

Group Shows

2017
After the Thrill is Gone: Fashion, Politics, and Culture in Contemporary South African Art, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, USA
africa. Telling A World., Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
A Short History of South African Photography, Fotografia Europea, Chiostri di San
Pietro, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Art/Afrique, Le nouvel atelier, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
New Acquisitions: Standard Bank Corporate Collection, Standard Bank Art Gallery,
Johannesburg, South Africa

2016
Summer Show, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
In Context: Where We Are, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Sleight of Hand, Zuckerberg Museum of Art, Kennesaw, USA
LagosPhoto, International Festival, Lagos, Portugal
Tear My Bra, Arles Photo Festival 2016, Arles, France
New Revolutions: Goodman Gallery at 50, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Being and Becoming: Complexities of the African Identity, !Kauru / Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
Kabbo Ka Muwala, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Africa
Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain

2015
What remains is tomorrow, South African Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Dis/Place, MoCADA, New York, USA
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisited_ by Contemporary African Artists, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA
Johannesburg Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy

2014
Future Generation Art Prize, Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine
Staging Reality, Lagos Photo Festival, Nigeria, Africa
Vision of Africa, Addis Photo festival, Ethiopia, Africa
Luminós/C/ity.Ordinary Joy: From the Pigozzi Contemporary African Art Collection, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery, Cambridge, UK
Nevralgies, Galarie Maia Muller, Paris, France
Daegue Biennale, South Korea
Arles Discovery Award Exhibition, Arles, France
Surfacing, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
This is not Africa, this is Us, Part II: Art Rotterdam, The Netherlands
This is not Africa, this is Us, Part III: West den Haag, The Netherlands
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisited_ by Contemporary African Artists, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2013
Pop Goes the Revolution, The New Church Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
Cultural Brokerage: Africa Imagined (ACT 1), Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
The Beautyful Ones, Nolan Judin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
eMerging: Visual Art and Music in a Post-Hip-Hop Era, MoCADA, New York, USA

2012
Documenta (13), Kassel, Germany

2011
Contemporay African Art, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland
Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, MoMA, New York, USA

2010
Its greener on the other side, Co-op, Johannesburg, South Africa
In other words, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg South Africa
Photo Ireland Festival, Dublin, Ireland
SPace: Currencies in Contemporary African Art, Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
For those that live in it, MU, The Netherlands

2009
Paris Photo Exhibition, Paris, France
Us, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Nation State, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa

2008
Africa Now, Round Tower, Copenhagen; Northern Norway Art Centre, Lofoten; and Tampere Art Museum, Finland

2006
Dak'art, Dakar Biennial, Senegal
New Painting, Kwazulu-Natal Society of Arts, Durban, South Africa

2005
Reconciliation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Public & Private Collections (Selected)

BHP Billiton, London, UK
Click Media, Johannesburg, SA
Danjuma Collection, UK
Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, SA
MoMA, New York, USA
Nandos, London, UK
Patrice Motsepe, Johannesburg, SA
Pigozzi Collection, FRA
Sindika Dokolo Collection, ANG
The New Church Museum, Cape Town, SA
Tiroche Deleon Collection
UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria, SA
Walther Collection, New York, USA
Zeitz MoCAA Collection, Cape Town, SA