Kudzanai-Violet Hwami

Kudzanai-Violet is a Zimbabwean-born UK-based artist with a BA in Fine Art from Wimbledon College of Arts and an MFA from Ruskin College of Art, UK.

She co-represented Zimbabwe at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 and returned for the 59th edition curated by Cecilia Alemani in 2022.

Her first institutional solo exhibition was held at Gasworks, London (2019), followed by Kunsthaus Pasquart, Switzerland (2022).

Her work has been featured in major group exhibitions, including at Gropius Bau, Zeitz MOCAA, Palais de Tokyo, the Hayward Gallery and Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, and is held in numerous public collections, including the Tate, the Studio Museum Harlem and the Stedelijk Museum.