Exhibition Misheck Masamvu

Part of Zimbabwe’s ‘born-free generation’ Misheck Masamvu bucked expectations when he decided to become an artist. Born in the 1980s to a Shona blue collar family from Mutare and Marondera, there was an implicit understanding that as the eldest he would provide for his family. Invariably this meant choosing a safe vocation; in a patriarchal traditional Shona culture, art is not safe. From those early days being a creative ‘free thinker’ placed Masamvu squarely outside of the system. He has come a long way, in 2011 his work was shown at the Zimbabwe Pavilion at the 54th International Venice Biennial.

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