Masimba Hwati is an artist from Harare, Zimbabwe, who works internationally in sculpture, sound, performance and video. He studied sculpture at the Harare Polytechnic, earned an MFA from the University of Michigan, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2019 and holds a PhD from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Known for unconventional mixed-media and sound sculptures, he examines postcolonial themes by re-appropriating archives and culturally imbued objects, from cars to shoes, and repositioning them in contemporary urban settings; his work has also juxtaposed the Detroit Jitt and Zimbabwean Jiti dances. He exhibited in the Zimbabwe Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale and took part in the 2021 British Textile Biennial. His work is held by the Philharmonie de Paris, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Iziko South African National Gallery, the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and Manchester Art Gallery.
Masimba Hwati. Photo by Baynham Goredema, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
