Visiting Artist Lecture: Chiedza Pasipanodya

Chiedza Pasipanodya is a sculptor and writer working through a post-minimalist lens and drawing from Afro-diasporic and speculative frameworks. Their early life—shaped by migration and alternative spiritual traditions—cultivated a deep interest in the metaphysical and the unseen, informing a material practice attentive to the ways that time, matter, and meaning interrelate. They received an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and recent notable exhibitions include the Cranbrook Art Museum (US), Catinca Tabacaru Gallery (RO), the Gardiner Museum, Artspeak Gallery, Art Gallery of Burlington, BAND Gallery, and Zalucky Contemporary (CA). Pasipanodya is the author of The Sweet Spot (Hush Harbour Press) and grace: Notes on Survival, contributing writer for Water, Kinship, Belief: Toronto Biennial of Art 2019-2022 and Impact: Women and Concussion, and editor of Tim Whiten: Elemental Earthen. 

This talk is free and open to the public, all are welcome. Registration required. If you have accommodation needs, please let us know through the registration form or contact dmg.utsc@utoronto.ca.

U of T Scarborough students attending for course credit should register here. 

This talk is part of the Visiting Artist Lecture Series, co-presented by the Doris McCarthy Gallery & Studio Art program, Department of Arts, Culture & Media, University of Toronto Scarborough. The theme of this year's series, Futures Otherwise: Memory, Myth and the Politics of Tomorrow, invites artists to share insights into their respective practices exploring themes including Afrofuturism, Indigenous futurisms, diasporic mythology, techno-utopian, queer temporalities, and beyond. These artists engage with the future not just as speculative, but as a site of resistance, healing, memory and radical re-imagining. 

This is a seated event. The classroom is wheelchair accessible.