Portia Zvavahera

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Portia Zvavahera
Born (1985-03-22) 22 March 1985 (age 39)
EducationVisual Art Studios at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe; Harare Polytechnic
OccupationPainter
AwardsTollman Award for the Visual Arts; FNB Art Prize

Portia Zvavahera (born 1985) is a Zimbabwean painter. [1] [2] [3]

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Early life

Zvavahera was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1985. [4] She studied at the BAT Visual Art Studios at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe from 2003 to 2004 and obtained a diploma in visual arts from Harare Polytechnic in 2006, [5] where she was taught by the Zimbabwean artist and printmaker Chiko Chazunguza. [6] Many of her paintings incorporate block-printed elements using oil-based printing ink. [7]

Career

In 2009, Zvavahera was an artist-in-residence at Greatmore Studios in Cape Town, South Africa. [6] Zvavahera represented Zimbabwe at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 as part of the exhibition Dudziro: Interrogating the Visions of Religious Beliefs. [6] She joined Stevenson, South Africa, in 2013. [5] Previously, Zvavahera exhibited her work at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and at Gallery Delta. [5]

She won South Africa's Tollman Award for the Visual Arts in 2013 and South Africa's FNB (First National Bank) Art Prize in 2014. [6] [8] In 2017, Zvavahera participated in a three-month residency at the Gasworks in London, United Kingdom, supported by the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean (ICAIO). [7]

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