Born in Zimbabwe in 1987, lives and works in Harare.
Evans Mutenga uses paper not as a surface but as a material that he tears, manipulates, inks, rubs off and coats. He creates almost abstract portraits by playing with the layers of paper thus transformed. The "Comrades" series is a set of portraits of veterans, comrades, friends. These mythical figures and portraits of these past struggles, are represented here almost evanescent, belonging to a history in the process of being reconciled.
A graduate of the National Gallery School of Visual Art and Design in Harare and the Polytechnic Colleges, Evans Tinashe Mutenga is an artist within the Village Unhu collective.
Since 2013 he has exhibited at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, the Gallery Delta. Between 2016 and 2018 he participated in the FNB Joburg art fair, Investec Cape Town Art Fair and attended the John Mafuangejo Printing Studios in Namibia.
EVANS TINASHE MUTENGA
CURRICULUM VITAE
GROUP SHOWS
2020
Small, 31 PROJECT, Paris – France
When you master yours and you can get out, Village Unhu, Harare - Zimbabwe
2019
We are here Pamasonga, 31 project, Paris – France
Sanity is expensive, but madness is for free, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
We move forward by looking back, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
2018
Tag, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
Cape Town Art Fair, Cape town – South Africa
Village Unhu group show – Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
2017
Young Artist Exhibition, Delta Gallery, Harare – Zimbabwe
International Conference of African Culture (I.C.A.Z) exhibition – N.G.Z Harare – Zimbabwe
Line to form, Delta Gallery, Harare – Zimbabwe
Summer annual exhibition – Delta Gallery, Harare – Zimbabwe
Link, Gallery Delta, Harare – Zimbabwe
I.C.A.C exhibition –N.G.Z Harare – Zimbabwe
Heritage annual exhibition – N.G.Z Harare – Zimbabwe
FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg – South Africa
Cape Town Art Fair, Cape town – South Africa
2016
Artist Books, Mojo Gallery, Dubai – United Arab Emirates
Young Artist Exhibition, Delta Gallery, Harare – Zimbabwe
100-100, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
Wild Geese, Harare – Zimbabwe
Surface = Drawing, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
Inboxed testimony, John Muafangejo Gallery, Windhoek – Namibia
1.54 Art Fair London – UK
FNB Joburg art Fair, Johannesburg – South Africa
2015
Young Artist Exhibition, Delta Gallery, Harare – Zimbabwe
Dama, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
Soldout, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
Migration, Delta Gallery, Harare – Zimbabwe
Orgees, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg – South Africa
2014
Young Artist exhibition, NGZ, Harare – Zimbabwe
Young Artist exhibition, Delta Gallery, Harare – Zimbabwe
Finding way, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
Umoji, Kavoh, Harare – Zimbabwe
Hope, Hope Gallery, Doon Estate, Harare – Zimbabwe
RESIDENCIES
2017
Artist Residency Studio Award, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
2016
John Muafangejo Residency ,Windhoek – Namibia
2014
Dama residency, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
2013
NGSVAD resident artist, N.G.Z School of visual Arts and design, Harare – Zimbabwe
AWARDS
2017
National Arts Merits Awards of Zimbabwe (N.A.M.A)
2015
Graphic Artistic prize from the Embassy of Switzerland and Delta Gallery, Harare - Zimbabwe