Fiona Davhana
(Dembe) Fiona Davhana is a multidisciplinary artist born in 1996 in Thohoyandou, Limpopo. She resides in New Doornfontein, Johannesburg Central and is currently doing an Advanced Photography course at the Market Photo Workshop. Davhana practices visual art in the mediums of painting, doodling and photography, and also writes texts that support her work. Her work was featured in New York based and Afro-futuristic online magazine Afro-Punk in 2016.
Davhana has taken part of a couple exhibitions with the Through the Lens Collective-The Portrait Show (2020), Everyday a Woman (2020) and will take part of their Postcard Africa exhibition later this year. She was featured as the ‘Odd Artist of The Month’ in Odd Magazine in June 2020, she attended and completed a linocut & printing workshop at the Benrose Studios with The Arts Company Soweto in June 2020 and was featured in UK based magazine ‘Heavy Iridescent’ in November 2020. In 2021, she was listed as a Design Indaba emerging creative where she took part of online workshopsas well as had her work featured on their social media platforms and website.
Davhana also completed a course called ‘Seeing Through Photographs’ with MoMa and NEMISA. She has facilitated a Last Thursday Talk for the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents 2022 at the Market Photo Workshop.
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