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Latest revision as of 11:21, 21 November 2025
Zimbabwean contemporary visual artist
Miriro Mwandiambira (born 1994) is a Zimbabwean contemporary visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice addresses young womanhood, domestic labour and urban identity in Harare. [1][2]
Early life and education
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Mwandiambira was born in Harare in 1994,[1] She graduated from the National Gallery of Zimbabwe Visual Art Studio with a National Certificate in Fine Art (painting) in 2014.[2] After graduating she began to extend her practice into installation, performance and mixed media.[1] In 2018 she participated in the RAW Academy performance programme in Dakar, Senegal.[1] In 2021 she completed a Master of Arts in Public Sphere at édhea in Switzerland.[1]
Mwandiambira’s work explores the experiences of young women living in urban Zimbabwe, combining references to fashion, beauty ritual and domestic labour with painting, sculpture and performance strategies.[1] Her practice often legitimises materials and gestures associated with “women’s work” such as sewing, hair fashion and self-decoration within the context of contemporary visual art.[2] She frequently uses humor and provocative staging to interrogate gendered expectations and urban identity.[3] Her material approach is further illustrated in Silent Frame, which notes that she “creates a glowing gradient of the colour spectrum, mixing her hues using artificial nails pasted to a collaged background,” transforming beauty accessories into painterly surfaces that question social ideals of femininity.[4]
Following her 2014 graduation, Mwandiambira expanded from painting into installation, performance and mixed media projects.[1] She has exhibited widely in Zimbabwe and internationally and her work has attracted attention from museums, galleries and collectors.[5]
Notable exhibitions include the group show The Main Complaint at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Cape Town) in 2018.[2] In 2020 her work was included in Sugar Embodiment at Carré d’Art — Musée (Nîmes, France).[1] She has staged solo and duo projects with First Floor Gallery Harare, including exhibitions and projects shown in Harare and Victoria Falls.[1] In 2025 she presented the solo exhibition She Remembered Who She Was at First Floor Gallery Harare.[1] Her works have also been listed on market and gallery platforms such as Artsy. [6]
Writers and curators have noted Mwandiambira’s attention to the tensions between public and private life and her insistence on centering practices associated with women within contemporary art discourse.[2] Local coverage of her 2025 exhibition described it as an introspective exploration of femininity and modern identity in Harare.[7]
Selected exhibitions
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| Year | Exhibition | Venue / Location |
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| 2025 | She Remembered Who She Was | First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe.[1] |
| 2024 | Messe Messe 2024 (group) | First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe.[1] |
| 2023 | Paper Weight (group) | First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe.[1] |
| 2021 | Vacancy (with Anne Zanele Mutema) | First Floor Gallery Vic Falls, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.[1] |
| 2020 | Sugar Embodiment | Carré d’Art — Musée, Nîmes, France.[1] |
| 2018 | The Main Complaint | Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa.[2] |
| 2017 | Another Antipodes / Urban Axis | PS Art Space, Fremantle, Australia.[1] |
Awards and recognition
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| Year | Recognition | Institution | Reference |
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| 2018 | RAW Academy Award | RAW Academy, Dakar, Senegal | [8] |
| 2017 | Work acquired for ST-ART Collection | ST-ART (Tel Aviv, Israel) | [2] |
