Isaac Zavale
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b. 1987 Maputo, Mozambique
Isaac Zavale is a Mozambican fine artist, muralist and co-founder of Prints on paper studio. He graduated from Artist Proof Studio and currently lives and works in Berlin. Zavale has been curating his own group shows and printmaking workshops with a fellow artist friend since 2011. For the last couple of years, he’s been working hand in hand with his Alphabet Zoo partner Minenkulu Ngoyi running zine and printmaking workshops. They both amalgamated with some partners from assemblage to run a printmaking studio (POP) Prints on Paper.
He has participated in numerous group exhibitions both locally and internationally. In 2015 he and Minenkulu Ngoyi were invited to be guest lecturers for 3rd-year students for alternative printmaking, zine-making and bookbinding courses at the University of Witwatersrand. Zavale’s work is about the social and political issues in South Africa and globally. He sees it as an ongoing story that needs to be told or to express his point of view about.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 BON VOYAGE SKHOKHO - Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
2020 Joni Ya Milenge - Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
2017 June / July - Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 SELECTION - HVW8 Gallery, Berlin, GER
2023 Hawkers Paradise - Merchantec Capital & Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
2022 Summer Flings - Foreign Agent Gallery, Lausanne, SWI
2019 Alphabet Zoo - Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival, Johannesburg, RSA
2018 THE READING ROOM: Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi and Alphabet Zoo - Goethe Institut, Johannesburg, RSA
2017 One Colour At A Time: Contemporary Screen Prints - Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, RSA
2017 Occupy II - Fried Contemporary Gallery & Kalashnikovv Gallery, Pretoria, RSA
2016 GRAFIKAMA (Service Peinture) Exposition Collective - Nantes, FRA
Selected Art Fairs & Festivals
AKAA (Also Known As Africa Art Fair), Paris, FRA: 2023
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, RSA: 2023 / 2022 / 2020
FNB Art Joburg, Johannesburg, RSA: 2023 / 2022
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, GBR: 2022
RMB Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg, RSA: 2019 / 2017
Basha Uhuru Freedom Festival, Johannesburg, RSA: 2016
Selected Awards & Collections
GRAFIKAMA (Service Peinture) Artist Residency, Nantes, FRA: 2016
NIROX Foundation Residency, Krugersdorp, RSA: 2016
Leridon Collection, FRA
WITS Art Museum Public Collection, RSA
Merchantec Capital Private Collection, RSA
Sovereign Art Foundation, RSA