Nolan Oswald Dennis
BA Architecture, University of the Witwatersrand (WITS); MA in Art, Culture and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA).
As an internationally acclaimed interdisciplinary artist, Dennis explores ‘a black consciousness of space’: the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonisation. Their work questions the politics of space through a system-specific approach and are concerned with the hidden structures that condition social and political imagination. Dennis is interested in systems that transverse multiple realms and explores a coded landscape of systematic and structural conditions of world-organisation through diagrams, drawings and models.
They have exhibited a number of solo shows in locations including Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; Swiss Institute, New York; and Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town. Other group exhibitions include the 9th Berlin Biennale (2016); the Young Congo Biennale (2019); Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA); FRONT Triennial, Cleveland; Lagos Biennial; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Architekturmuseum der TU München, amongst other highly prestigious galleries and museums worldwide. The artist’s work was also shown on the VIAD curated show, ‘SYM|BIO|ART INTRA-ACTING AT THE CRITICAL NODE BETWEEN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY ART’ exhibition (2023, FADA Gallery, UJ).
Dennis is a member of artist groups NTU and Index Literacy Program and a member of the Eduoard Glissant Art Fund Scientific Committee.
Nolan Oswald Dennis joined VIAD in 2018.
