Kudzanai Chiurai

(b. 1981, Zimbabwe)

Kudzanai Chiurai was born in 1981 in Zimbabwe. He lives and works in South Africa. He was the first black student to graduate with a BFA from the University of Pretoria. Chiurai has held numerous solo exhibitions since 2003 and has participated in various local and international exhibitions including at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as dOCUMENTA (13). His film Iyeza was one of the few African films to be included in the New Frontier shorts programme at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. Chiurai has also held numerous solo exhibitions with the Goodman Gallery (South Africa).