Kudzanai Chiurai
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Kudzanai Chiurai (1981, Zimbabwe) is an internationally acclaimed visual artist and activist. Born one year after Zimbabwe’s emergence from white-ruled Rhodesia; his earlier work focuses on the political, economic, and social strife in his homeland. Since 2003, Chiurai has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions including Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2011) and Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011), which acquired Chiurai’s work for its collection. His ‘Conflict Resolution’ series was included in dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, (2012), and in 2013 his film Iyeza was one of the few African films to be included in the New Frontier shorts programme at the Sundance Film Festival.

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