Masimba Hwati

Masimba Hwati is an interdisciplinary artist from Zimbabwe, working internationally at the intersections of sculpture, performance, and sound, known for his unconventional three-dimensional mixed media sculptures.

Life and career Hwati graduated from Harare Polytechnic School of Art and Design in 2003 where he majored in Ceramics and Painting. Hwati taught Visual Arts and 3D Art at Harare Polytechnic School of Art and Design. He is a PhD Candidate at Akademie Der Bildenden Künste Wien, Österreich, an MFA from Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was most recently, included in the Montreal Museum of Fine Art's (MMFA) exhibition, Face To Face: From Yesterday to Today, Non-Western Art and Picasso.

In 2015, he was one of three artists, along with Chikonzero Chazunguza and Gareth Nyandoro, selected for Pixels Of Ubuntu/Unhu for the Zimbabwean Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. He also works extensively with found objects, transforming existing artifacts into elements of works of art.

Critical reception Hwati was named amongst 12 "The Ones to Watch" by New African Magazine ahead of the 1-54 Contemporary Art Fair in London at Somerset House.

Awards and honors

In 2006 Hwati won the National Art Merit Award, the highest individual art honour in Zimbabwe. He was one of three national representatives who had a showing at the Zimbabwean Pavilion exhibition, Pixels Of Ubuntu/Unhu, at the 56th Venice Biennale.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2017 Art Brussels - Belgium (Solo booth Smac Gallery) 2017 Instruments of Memory Stellenbosch Cape Town 2016 Instruments of Memory / Simbi dzeNdangariro Smac Gallery Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa 2016 Joburg Art fair Trek: Following Journeys 16.05.15 – 27.06.15 2014 Quantumlogik, Solo Exhibition, Gallery Delta Harare Zimbabwe 2010 Facsimiles of Energy, Solo Exhibition, Gallery Delta Harare Zimbabwe

Group exhibitions

2015 Venice Biennale All the Worlds’ futures Curated by Okwui Enwezor, Pixels of Ubuntu Zimbabwe pavilion, curated by Raphael Chikukwa 2015 London I:54 Art Fair, London, UK