{"id":734,"date":"2023-04-06T04:36:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T04:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nandos.com\/seeourfuture\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=734"},"modified":"2023-04-20T09:40:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T09:40:14","slug":"portia-zvavahera","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.nandos.com\/seeourfuture\/artist\/portia-zvavahera\/","title":{"rendered":"Portia Zvavahera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Portia Zvavahera (1985 &#8211; ) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, where she still lives and works. She studied at the BAT Visual Arts Studio under the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, and then went on to graduate with a Diploma in Visual Arts from Harare Polytechnic in 2006.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zvavahera has enjoyed residencies in the Congo, India, England, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a painter, she draws from a visual vocabulary that includes women, family, and shape-shifting animals and many of her artworks incorporate block-printed elements using oil-based printing ink.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zvavahera featured in the main exhibition of the 59<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Venice Biennale and represented Zimbabwe at the 55<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Venice Biennale. 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