Nolan Oswald Dennis

Nolan Oswald Dennis (born 1988) is a South African artist working between science, technology, and political history.

Biography Nolan Oswald Dennis was born in Lusaka, Zambia to South African parents in exile during Apartheid. He grew up in Midrand, South Africa.

Work A 2025 review for ArtReview described Dennis as working in "a incisive and excisional ‘para-disciplinary’ practice, which traverses sculpture, film, diagrams and other less readily categorised media.. summon[ing] and strategis[ing] with Black and Indigenous African forces". Kunstinstituut Melly; the Liverpool Biennial, Shanghai Biennial, Gasworks Gallery, and the Swiss Institute NY.

Collaborations Dennis works collaboratively with Bogosi Sekhukhuni and Tabita Rezaire as NTU

Notable Exhibitions ubuntu: un réve lucid, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2021 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, 2023 overturns, Swiss Institute, New York, 2025

Awards and honours Awards include the FNB Art prize (2016) and the Videobrazil Jury prize (2023). He was on the shortlist of the 2023 Future Generations Art prize (2024)