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Felix Shumba
Venus; Dust/Ear IVH, 2025
Charcoal on paper
82.5 x 120 cm, 32.5 x 47.2 inches
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Felix Shumba
Telephone reader- XIII, 2025
Charcoal on paper
76 x 76 cm, 29.9 x 29.9 inches
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Felix Shumba
Salt Corp, 2024
Charcoal on Fabriano, Salt, Bricks and Hiddensound
I Dream I’m Crossing the River, Uitstalling Gallery, Belgium
Installation view
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Felix Shumba
a following year, 2024
Galleria Fonti, Naples
Photo: Amedeo Benestante. Courtesy the Artist and Galleria Fonti, Naples
Installation view
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Felix Shumba
Nocturnal Bodies (Head I, II & III), 2023
Charcoal on Fabriano paper,
71 x 71 cm each, 27.9 x 27.9 inches
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Felix Shumba
Ruwa River, 2022 (Floor)
Nocturnal Body, 2022 (Walls)
Old Al Dhaid Clinic, Sharjah, 2023
Photo: Sharjah Foundation
Installation view
Biography
Felix Shumba
Born in 1989, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Lives and works in Masvingo, Zimbabwe
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- Solo Exhibitions
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2024
“a following year”, Galleria Fonti, Naples
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- Group Exhibitions
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2026
“Second Nature | Manyonga”, Zimbabwe Pavilion, curated by Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa, 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
“Unfolding Worlds”, Labanque, Béthune
“Nature, The Architect”, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
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2025
“Have No Doubt of the Omnipotence of a Free People”, curated by Raphael Guilbert, Galeria Catinca Tabacaru, Bucharest
“Panorama Pozzuoli”, with Galleria Fonti, curated by Chiara Parisi, Pozzuoli, Na-ples
“From the Surround, We Build the Present”, curated by Cindy Sissokho, Galeri-as Municipais de Lisboa, Lisbon
PT National Gallery, Harare
“iwillmedievalfutureyou2”, curated by Jacob Fabricious, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö -
2024
“I Dream I'm Crossing the River”, Uitstalling gallery, Genk
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2023
“Thinking Historically in the Present”, Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah
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2022
“A Prelude”, Bkhz Gallery, Johannesburg
“On the Edge”, Kalashnikov Gallery, Johannesburg
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2016
“Untitled”, Jo Anke Gallery, Johannesburg
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- Duo Exhibitions
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2024
“Felix Shumba and Martin Seeds: Nervous Lines”, Koop Projects, Brighton
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2023
“Felix Shumba and Kiluanji Kia Henda: Memories of a Poisoned River”, Museum of Natural History and Jahmek Contemporary Art, Luanda
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- Special Projects
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2025
“For want of Horse, a button was lost”, Tiwani Contemporary, London
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- Residencies
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2025
Gasworks, London
ISCP, New York -
2023
Hotel Globo, Kiluanji Kia Henda Studio / Jahmek Contemporary Art, Luanda
Edition Verso Printmaking Studio , Johannesburg
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2022
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah
Kemang Wa Lehulere Studio, Cape Town
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- Collections
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Castello di Rivoli
Frac Bretagne, France
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah UAE
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- Press
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2025
Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti, “In Masvingo, Felix Shumba Confronts the Legacies of Exploitation”, Ocula Magazine, September 9
Marissa Moorman, “On Felix Shumba”, London Review of Books, August 26
Tara Anne Dalbow, “8 emerging artists to seek out at Art Basel’s 2025 Swiss edition”, artbasel.com, May 19
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2023
Imani Jacqueline Brown, “Memories of the Poisoned River”, Buala, December 24
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2021
Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti, “Visual artist Felix Shumba: encounters in a foreign country”, Bubblegumclub