Misheck Masamvu
Born, 1980, Penhalonga, Zimbabwe
Education
2005. Studied at Atelier Delta and Kunste Akademie in Munich, Germany.
Lives and works between Harare, Zimbabwe and Johannesburg, South Africa.
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Misheck Masamvu, Bernier/Eliades Brussels, Belgium
2021
Carnivorous Words, Goodman Gallery Projects, East Hampton, USA
Talk to me while I’m eating, Goodman Gallery, London, UK
2019
Hata, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016
Still / Still, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Still, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015
Misheck Masamvu, Institut Français, Paris, France
2014
Life Sentence, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2012
Epitaph, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2009
Shame, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
Disputed Seats, Influx Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2006
Relay, Munich, Germany
Colour of Sweat, Bonn, Germany
2003
A Naked Mind II, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
2002
A Naked Mind I, National Gallery, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Group Exhibitions
2022
STILL ALIVE, 5th Aichi Triennale, Aichi, Japan (forthcoming)
The ‘t’ is silent, 8th Biennial of Painting, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens- Latem, Belgium (forthcoming)
When We See Us, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa (forthcoming)
Inside Out, Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Geneva, Switzerland
2021
The same space three times, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa XXL, OPEN24HRS Studio and Project Space, Cape Town, South Africa SOUTH SOUTH: Everything fits to our daily needs, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2020
Did ever think there would come a time?, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South AfricaAllied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, USA
Witness: Afro Perspectives, El Espacio 23, Miami,USA
Alles Notwendige (Everthing Necessary), Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne, Germany
NIRN, 22nd Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
2019
I’ve grown roses in this garden of mine, Goodman Gallery, London, UK
Borders, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
Two Together, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
2018
Five Bhobh Painting at the End of an Era, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
In Context: this past was waiting for me…, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Narrative Means, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Jeepers, Creepers, Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne, Germany
2017
All things being equal, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
When Heaven Meets the Earth, Heong Gallery, Downing College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2016
Incerteza Viva (Live Uncertainty), 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil New Revolutions: Goodman Gallery at 50 , Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
In Context: Where We Are, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2015
Triangle, with Tayseer Barakat and Ismail Al Rifai, curated by Mohamed Abou Elnaga, The Mojo Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2014
next thing you know, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2013
Afropolicity, Njelele Art Station, Harare, Zimbabwe
blank projects in Johannesburg, Ithuba Arts Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Working Title, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Leatherette, Gallery 23, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012
The Spirit of Two Friendship: Entre Dos Aguas / Pakati Pemugungwa, Gabarron Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Dekonstruiert und Geflickt, Gallerie Francoise Heitsch, Munich, Germany
2011
54th Venice Biennale, Zimbabwe Pavillion, Venice, Italy
São Tomé Biennale, São Tomé and Principe
2010
Africa 2.0 > is there a Contemporary African art?, Influx Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2008
Art, Migration and Identity, Africa Museum, CBK, Arnhem, Netherlands
Hidden Stories, Grote Kerk, Haarlem, Netherlands Many Rivers to Cross, Cafe Gallery, London, UK
696, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
2007
Paintings and Sculptures, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
2006
Relieving the Trauma, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal
The Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
2005
Gallery Delta for 30 Years, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
2004
Legacy, Pasinger Fabrik, Pasing, Munich
New Directions in Zimbabwean Contemporary African Painting, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
2003
Decimation, Deprivation and Decapitation, Gallery Delta & HIFA, Harare, Zimbabwe
Artists for Zimbabwe, Gallery 27, London, UK
2002
Pre-Election Selection, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
2001
Colourfields Africa II, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
Africa Exhibit, Munich, Germany
2000
Colourfieds Africa, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
Colour Africa, Munich, Germany
Residencies
2015
Institut Francais, Paris, France
1999
Atelier Delta, France