Munya Victor Madzima, Human Pupa, 1995
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Munya Victor Madzima
(Also known as King Munya)
born in 1967, Zimbabwe
Lives and works as an artist in the fields of sculpture, graphic art and photography
in Toronto, Canada and Zimbabwe
Numerous solo and group exhibitions national and abroad, including National Gallery of Zimbabwe; Delta Gallery, Harare; Barclay's Bank Zimbabwe, Bulawayo; Gallery 401, Toronto; Studio 100, Toronto; Fulford Gallery, Ottawa, Milton Keynes Gallery, London
1987 – 1994 Art study at Mt. Hampden Art Institute and Ilsa College, Harare, Zimbabwe; Advanced Level Certificate, National Gallery of Zimbabwe School of Fine Art, Harare; Honours diploma sculpture and installation, Ontario College of Art, Canada; 2001 – 2003 Master of Fine Art sculpture and installation, York University, Toronto, Canada
Received academic scholarships and has won coveted awards e.g. Samuel Sarick Award, M. Nourbese Philip Award, Jaguar Sculpture Award, Johnson & Fletcher Wood Sculpture Award, Ian Carr-Harris Sculpture/Installation Award
Artist Profil | Awarding | Exhibitions | Publications | Museums - Collection | Kunstwerk des Monats 2014_04, 2015_01
Munya Victor Madzima is among the Zimbabwean artists who adopted an idiosyncratic artistic position from the very beginning. Never content to work within the traditionalist mould of Shona sculpture, he has always preferred subject matter that would generate friction. Having won the Zimbabwe Heritage competition, he was awarded a scholarship to attend the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, from 1991 to 1994. On his return to Zimbabwe, he worked mainly as a sculptor in stone, based in Harare. He left the country again in 2005 to escape worsening political repression and gained recognition as a multi-media artist in Canada. More recently, he has made a name for himself in England as the “King of Spoon” and founded an independent art school offering multi-disciplinary training for sculptors and performance artists.
2004 - Samuel Sarick Award, York University, Toronto, Kanada
2003 - Madzima wird von CIBC – Dixon Hall’s Regent Park Learning Centre unter „Canadas best known artists“ genannt
- Best Student Award, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit, Toronto, Kanada
2002 - M. Nourbese Philip Award, African Art and Culture Award
1993 - Ian Carr-Harris Sculpture / Installation Award, OCAD
- Student Union Award, OCAD
- Butter Sculpture Award, Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
1992 - Sculpture Installation Faculty Award, OCAD
- Peacock’s Harware (Mould Making / Foundry) Award, OCAD
- Jaguar Sculpture Award, OCAD
- Harry Mitz Foundry Award, OCAD
1991 - Johnson & Fletcher Wood Sculpture Award, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwe Heritage: Award of Merit, Mixed Media Sculpture
- Zimbabwe Heritage: Award of Distinction, Welded Steel Sculpture
1990 - Ministry of Public Service Book Cover Competition Award, 1. Preis
- Zimbabwe Heritage: Award of Merit, Line Print
- Zimbabwe Heritage: Award of Merit, Photograph
- Zimbabwe Heritage: Award of Merit, Welded Steel Sculpture I
- Zimbabwe Heritage: Award of Merit, Welded Steel Sculpture II
- Zimbabwe Heritage: Corps of Diplomats Award of Distinction, Stone Sculpture
1989 - Zimbabwe Heritage: Certificate of Excellence Award, Metal Sculpture
2007 - Galerie 23, Amsterdam, Niederlande
2003 - „The Gun, the Camera and the Bible“, Art Gallery of York University, Today & York, Toronto, Canada 28. 4. – 11. 5. 2003
- Fulford Gallery, Ottawa, Kanada
2001 - Gallery 401, Toronto, Kanada
1997 - The Totem Gallery, Mutopo - Harare, Zimbabwe
1996 - "Double Vision", Munya Madzima and Chikonzero Chazunguza, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
1995 - „The Link“, Zwei-Personen-Ausstellung mit Chikonzero (Chiko) Chazunguza, The Great Hall, Haarlem, Niederlande
- „Double Vision“, Zwei-Personen-Ausstellung mit Chikonzero (Chiko) Chazunguza, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
1994 - „After One Thouisand Days in Canada“, Studio 100, Toronto, Kanada
1993 - „From the Womb of Zimbabwe“, Fulford Gallery, Ottawa, Kanada
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2007 - Mondial Centrum of Fine-Art Haarlem, Haarlem, Niederlande, 4. 11. 2006 – 28. 1. 2007, Weitere Künstler: Patrick Makumbe, Chazunguza Chikonzero (Chiko)
- Galerie Chief & Sprits, Den Haag, Niederlande
- de Wereldgalerie, Oisterwijk, Niederlande
2006 - „Hove Arts“, Stables Studio, Brighton, England
- „Artforum“, Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto - Ontario, Kanada
2004 - „Kuumba Show: Munya Madzima, Cheryl Rock, Shan Skeir“, Harbourfront Center, Toronto, Kanada
2003 - „Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition“, Toronto, Kanada
- „If I Ruled the World“, Red Head Gallery, York University MFA Students, Toronto, Kanada
- „The Shrine of Memories“ (9’’ x 4 ’’ – Shona Symbols), Munya Madzima: Great Hall, Hart House, University Toronto, Kanada
- „ Conversation on Sculpture“, Central Hall, OCAD, New York, USA, November – Dezember
- „The Body Disembodied. New Directions in Modernist Sculpture“, Mac Laren Centre, New York, USA, November
- Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, Kanada
2002 - „Keep Six“, Ontario MFA Group Exhibition, Kitchener, Kanada
1996 - „The Art of Zimbabwean Sculpture“, Milton Keynes Gallery, London, England
- „Aids Campaign“, Painting Exhibition on Tour, New South Wales, Australien
1995 - „Gallery Delta ‘Twenty Years’ Exhibition“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Different Directions“, Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
1994 - "Zimbabwe Heritage", National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
1990 - „Johnson & Fletcher Wood Sculpure Competition“, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „ZAVAVAD Exhibition“, John Boyne Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
1989 - "Zimbabwe Heritage", National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Zimbabwean Metal Sculpture Competition“, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Young Artists Exhibition“, Delta Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe