Chiedza Pasipanodya

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. Notable exhibitions and installations include Dura | a mechanism for recalling sensibilities of community care at Fort York for BAND Gallery, Toronto (2024), Ndafunga Danda (Thoughts of Home) at the Art Gallery of Burlington (2023), Control at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Bucharest (2024) and Genealogies of Sustenance at The Gardiner Museum (2024). 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.