CHIEDZA PASIPANODYA
Born Harare, Zimbabwe
Lives and works in Toronto, CA & Bloomfield Hills, US
Chiedza Pasipanodya is a multidisciplinary artist, award-winning curator, educator, and writer whose research-based practice is concerned with the fluidity of time, memory, and retrieval. Drawing from African diasporic aesthetics and metaphysical inquiry, they create sculptures and installations, inviting audiences to reconsider the meanings of objects, materials and sites through shifting perspectives. Pasipanodya’s creative process is spiraling and labor-intensive, mirroring their nonlinear understanding of time and the richly embodied traditions of global craft techniques such as pottery and fiber arts.
Pasipanodya has exhibited widely across North America and internationally, including at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery (Romania), Gardiner Museum, BAND Gallery, Artspeak Gallery, Art Gallery of Burlington (Canada), and Forum Gallery and Eastern Michigan University Gallery (USA). They have curated exhibitions at institutions such as the Ino Cho Paper Museum (Japan), The Art Gallery of Peterborough, The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, and Nuit Blanche (Canada).
A Toronto Biennial of Art Curatorial Fellow (2022) and Creative Time Summit presenter (2017), they have also participated in artist residencies at the Watershed Centre for Ceramic Arts (USA), Dzimbanhete Arts and Cultural Interactions (Zimbabwe), and the Global Experience Project: Maria Thereza Alves (Italy). Pasipanodya received their Bachelor of Fine Arts in Criticism and Curatorial Practices from OCAD University (2019) and is an MFA candidate in the Sculpture department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Class of 2025.