Tatenda Magaisa

Tatenda Magaisa is an artist, writer, researcher and culturalm producer from South Africa. She obtained her MAFA in Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) in 2016. Her work explores themes pertaining to global cultural interaction, Black women in popular culture, as artists and/or practitioners in Africa and the foregone conclusion of surplus labor under a culturally dominated society. Drawing strongly on prevalent visual material and assumed norms referenced from popular media and socialm media, her research is rooted in an exploration of art practiced under irreconcilable conditions. Magaisa works in painting, print, text and video.

Tatenda Magaisa is the 2023 David Koloane Award recipient, Bag Factory Artists’ Studios; writing edition. Exhibitions and projects include ‘It wearies me; you say it wearies you’ (2024), a solo exhibition at Johannesburg Art Gallery, she is a resident of the Occupying The Gallery project (2023-), ‘Minding Our Business’(2018/2019) a podcast project by Rera Letsema in collaboration with the Visual Arts Network of South Africa, ‘Five Bhobh – Painting at the End of an Era’ (2018/2019) a group exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA and the co-curation and publication of ‘Overtime: representations, values and imagined futures of ‘classical African Art’ (2017) at the Wits Art Museum.