Masimba Hwati

Masimba Hwati is an interdisciplinary artist who works across sculpture, sound, performance and video. He holds an MFA from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a PhD in Art practice, candidate at Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien. He is a 2019 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni. He studied sculpture at Harare Polytechnic in Zimbabwe. His work primarily deals with questions of how minority people resist and negotiate with power. Collections Include University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), Iziko-South African National Gallery and others. In 2021 he showed and performed at the British textile Biennale in Blackburn UK. In 2015 he showed at the Zimbabwean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 56th edition. He is an honorary research fellow at Rhodes University Fine Arts Department in Grahamstown, SA. Solo and group shows include Harare, Johannesburg, New York, Avignon, Berlin, Weimar, Brussels.