Fick Fufa - 2010

29.7 x 42 cm
C-Print on Fujifilm Crystal Archival Paper

Ita Kuti Kunaye II (Make It Rain II) - 2010

70.5 x 104.5 cm
C-Print on Fujifilm Crystal Archival Paper

Ndiri Cross Border Trader (I am a Cross Border Trader) - 2010

91 x 63.2 cm
Light jet print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper

Vabvakure (People from Far Away) - 2010-2013

Single channel video
Runtime: 12min 57

Watch Vabvakure (People from far away) from Gerald Machona on Vimeo

Y.O.L.A., in Profit We Trust? - 2013

Skull : 8 x 6.5 x 11 cm Open Briefcase : 10.5 x 46 x 34.5 cm and pillow: 8.5 x 40 x 25 cm
Decommissioned Zimbabwean Five billion dollar notes, Triplex, double sided tape, velvet pillow, pleather executive attache briefcase

Gerald Machona

Born in 1986.

Gerald Machona is a Zimbabwean born Visual artist with a Master’s Degree in Fine Art from Rhodes University and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Cape Town, completed at the Michaelis School of fine art.

Source: Goodman Gallery

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

Still Here Tomorrow to High Five You Yesterday, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa

Power of Site, Nirox Sculpture Park, South Africa

2016

The Art of Disruptions, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

New Revolutions: Goodman Gallery at 50, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Kabbo Ka Muwala: Migration and Mobillity in Contemporary Art in Southern and Eastern Africa, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

Kabbo Ka Muwala: Migration and Mobillity in Contemporary Art in Southern and Eastern Africa, Makerere ArtGallery, Kampala, Uganda

Kabbo Ka Muwala: Migration and Mobillity in Contemporary Art in Southern and Eastern Africa, Städtische Galerie, Bremen, Germany

2015

Edge of Silence, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

South African Pavilion at 56th Venice Biennale, What remains is tomorrow, South Africa

2014

Pop Goes the Revolution, New Church, Cape Town, South Africa

C16, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2013

Sommerakademie Performance, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland

St Moritz Art Masters Performance, Mercedes Benz Art Lounge, St Moritz, Switzerland

Working Title, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

The beautyful ones, Nolan Judin Gallery, Berlin, Germany

‘Vabvakure’, (People from far away) (MFA show), Guy Butler Theatre, Grahamstown, South Africa

Making Way, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2012

Making Way, Grahamstown National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa

Working Title, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2011

Geography of Somewhere, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

The Night Show, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2010

Refugee day exhibition, Cape Creative Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

Mobile Cinema, Grahamstown National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa

Us, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

African Artists Showcase, Artscape, Cape Town, South Africa

Mari Yebepa (Paper money), Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa

2009

Michaelis Graduate Show 2009, Michaelis School of Arts, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa

2007 Easy Access, University of Cape Town Baxter residence, Cape Town, South Africa

The inchoate, idiosyncratic descent into nihilism, Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016

Art Basel 47, Basel, Switzerland

2014

Vabvakure (People From Far Away), Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa