Tendai Mupita

Tendai Mupita was born in 1990 in Harare, Zimbabwe, and graduated from Chinhoyi University of Technology in 2015. In 2017 he received an artist residency award at the Bag Factory in Johannesburg, South Africa, and in 2019 he was a participant in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, USA. Mupita has been included in numerous exhibitions in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Italy, London, USA, and South Africa. Mupita recently completed his Master’s degree in Sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.

In 2020 Mupita’s solo exhibition in Rome was titled ”Kuedza mudzimu nesengere” which was featured in the Artforum magazine, September issue. In 2019 he participated in the Zimbabwe Cultural Center of Detroit an artist exchange program that culminated to a symposium at the Charles Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, USA.