Coffee Chat w/ Chiedza Pasipanodya

Coffee Chats is a series of casual gatherings with the CEAD team with industry guests. Hosted in small intimate groups, these gatherings will provide a space for group conversations with practitioners who are interested in supporting OCAD U students and grads to offer mentorship, and share their professional insights and journey, while collectively creating a community.

 

Chiedza Pasipanodya (chee-ed-za pasi-pano-jga) is an artist, curator, and writer. Their research-based practice emerges from southern African ways of being, knowing, and aesthetics and is informed by African pottery. They are committed to elevating narratives which might otherwise be forgotten or misremembered, especially the cultural productions of people of African descent. Through exhibition-making, sculpture, conversation, collaboration, and writing, they have a multi-disciplinary Afro-diasporic practice that considers how and if connection, repair, and retrieval are possible through the making of objects and transmutation of materials. They are interested in materials that communicate gestures of translation, recording, and remembering.

 

Chiedza completed a BFA (Hons) in Criticism and Curatorial Practices at OCAD University in 2019. They have exhibited at the Gardiner Museum, Catinca Tabacaru, Artspeak Gallery, The Art Gallery of Burlington, Nia Centre for the Arts, Xpace Cultural Centre, Gallery Two Seven Two and Whippersnapper Gallery. They have curated exhibitions with The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Aspace Gallery, BAND Gallery, The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre and Nuit Blanche. Chiedza lives and works in Bloomfield Hills, US, Harare, ZW and Toronto, CA and is an MFA candidate in the Sculpture department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Class of 2025.

 

Website: https://www.chiedzapasipanodya.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thechiedza