Portia Zvavahera

 

Portia Zvavahera 







Hondo yakatarisana naambuya, 2025. 
Oil-based printing ink and oil bar on linen, 
93 3/4 x 116 1/2 inches (238.2 x 295.8 cm). 


Lifted Away(2024)


Vanegumi ramazana vachawa, 2024
Oil based printing ink and oil bar on linen
84 1/2 x 150 3/4 inches (214.5 x 382.8 cm)
Framed: 85 5/8 x 152 1/8 inches (217.6 x 386.5 cm)
Signed and dated recto


Tinosvetuka Rusvingo, 2024
Oil based printing ink and oil bar on linen
Diptych 
Overall: 83 7/8 x 138 1/4 inches (213 x 351.2 cm)
Framed: 85 x 139 5/8 inches (215.8 x 354.5 cm)
Signed and dated recto

Fighting Energies 2 (2024)



Ndirikumabvisa, 2024. 
Oil-based printing ink and oil bar on linen, 
99 5/8 x 82 5/8 inches (253 x 210 cm)

Ndirikukutsvagai ndirimugomo, 2024
Oil based printing ink and oil bar on linen
83 7/8 x 82 1/4 inches (213 x 209 cm)
Framed: 85 x 83 1/4 inches (215.8 x 211.5 cm)
Signed and dated recto

Takarara dziripo (We are sleeping in the presence), 2023
Oil based printing ink and oil bar on linen
84 1/2 x 107 1/2 inches (214.5 x 273 cm) 
Framed: 86 x 108 5/8 inches (218.5 x 276 cm)
Signed and dated recto

Pane Rima Rakakomba (There's Too Much Darkness) (2023)


Kusimudzwa kwevanhu (Uplifted), 2022
Oil based printing ink and oil bar on linen
116 1/2 x 83 1/8 inches (295.8 x 211 cm)
Framed: 118 1/8 x 84 5/8 inches (300 x 215 cm)
Signed and dated recto

 Kudonhedzwa kwevanhu (Fallen People), 2022.


Kubatwa kwemazizi (Captured owls), 2022
Oil based printing ink and oil bar on linen
83 1/4 x 122 1/4 inches (211.4 x 310.4 cm)
Framed: 84 3/4 x 123 5/8 inches (215.3 x 314 cm)
Signed and dated recto

Ndirikuda kubuda (I want to come out),2021Oil based printing ink and oil bar on canvas
198.1 x 161.3 cm
78 x 63 5/8 inches
208 x 180.7 x 7.9 cm (incl frame)
82 x 71 1/4 x 3 1/8 inches (incl frame)
Signed and dated recto


Whose hand?, 2021Oil based printing ink and oil bar on linen
197.8 x 186.7 cm
77 7/8 x 73 5/8 inches
201.3 x 190.2 x 7.9 cm (incl frame)
79 3/8 x 75 x 3 1/8 inches (incl frame)
Signed and dated recto

Woman in pain, 2021
Oil based printing ink and oil bar on canvas
80 7/8 x 61 3/4 inches (205.7 x 156.8 cm)
Framed: 82 5/8 x 63 1/4 inches (209.9 x 160.7 cm)
Signed and dated recto

Woman with owls, 
oil based printing ink and oil bar on canvas, 82 ½ x 68 ¼ inches, 2021.

Zvandakaoneswa (What I was made to see), 2021
Oil based printing ink and oil bar on linen
82 1/2 x 117 1/4 inches (209.6 x 297.8 cm) 
Framed: 82 7/8 x 118 5/8 inches (210.5 x 301.3 cm)
Signed and dated recto

This is where I travelled [4]

, 2020
Oil based printing ink and oil bar on canvas
95 1/2 x 78 1/8 inches (242.5 x 201 cm)
Framed: 96 5/8 x 80 3/8 inches (245.3 x 204.2 cm) 

This is where I travelled [5]

, 2020
Oil based printing ink and oil bar on canvas
88 3/4 x 76 1/8 inches (225.4 x 193.4 cm)
Framed: 90 1/8 x 77 3/8 inches (228.9 x 196.5 cm)
Signed and dated recto

This is where I travelled [3]

, 2020
Oil based printing ink and oil bar on canvas
73 1/4 x 73 1/4 inches (186 x 186 cm)
Framed: 74 1/2 x 74 5/8 inches (189.3 x 189.6 cm)
Signed and dated recto

I found the answer, 2019Oil-based printing ink and oil bar on canvas
175 x 213 cm
Courtesy the Artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg. Photo: Dawn Blackman.

Tawana mhinduro, 2019Oil-based printing ink and oil bar on canvas
214 x 222 cm
Courtesy the Artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg. Photo: Dawn Blackman.

Ndakaitwei?, 2019Oil-based printing ink and oil bar on canvas
202 x 114 cm
Courtesy the Artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg. Photo: Dawn Blackman.

Cleansing, 2019, 
oil-based printing ink and oil bar on canvas, 79 1⁄8 × 68 1⁄2".

oil-based printing ink and oil bar on canvas
signed and dated 'Portia Zvavahera 19' lower left
198.8 x 148.9 cm (78 1/4 x 58 5/8 in.)
Executed in 2019.

Tavingwa Nezvehusiku(2018)



I want to stay in  love , 2017

What I Saw, 2016. 
Oil-based printing ink and oil bar on canvas. 199 x 332cm Courtesy of the artist.



Embraced and Protected in You(2016)



Musingle a Kubuda

signed, dated 2013, numbered 2/4 and inscribed with the title in pencil in the margin

coloured woodcut on paper



他的存在(2013)


Untitled

signed and dated 2013 (lower right)

oil based printing ink on paper

117 by 151cm., 46 by 59½ in.

framed: 123 by 158cm., 48⅜ by 62¼in.


Labour Pains(2012) and Labour Ward (2012)





Portia Zvavahera in her studio, 2023 Image: Gianluigi Guercia; © Portia Zvavahera; Courtesy of Stevenson and David Zwirner



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