Portia Zvavahera (born 1985) is a Zimbabwean painter.

Early life

Zvavahera was born in

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. She studied at the BAT Visual Arts Studio at the

National Gallery of Zimbabwe The National Gallery of Zimbabwe (NGZ) is a gallery in Harare, Zimbabwe, dedicated to the presentation and conservation of Zimbabwe's contemporary art and visual heritage. The original National Gallery of Rhodesia was designed and directed by ...

from 2003 to 2005 and obtained a diploma in visual arts from Harare Polytechnic in 2006, where she was taught by the Zimbabwean artist and printmaker Chiko Chazunguza. Many of her paintings incorporate block-printed elements using oil-based printing ink.

Career

In 2009, Zvavahera was an artist-in-residence at Greatmore Studios in

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, South Africa. Zvavahera represented Zimbabwe at the

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in 2013 as part of the exhibition ''Dudziro: Interrogating the Visions of Religious Beliefs''. She joined Stevenson, South Africa, in 2013. Previously, Zvavahera exhibited her work at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and at Gallery Delta. 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. In 2017, Zvavahera participated in a three-month residency at the

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, United Kingdom, supported by the Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean (ICAIO).

References

External links

Gallery Delta profile

Stevenson profile

Gasworks profile
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