Chaz Maviyane-Davies, a Zimbabwe national is Presently Professor of Design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.
For more than two decades my work has taken on issues of consumerism, health, nutrition, social responsibility, the environment and human rights.
Credentials include an MA in Graphic Design (with distinction) from the Central School of Art and Design in London, and an Advanced Diploma in Postgraduate Film-making from the Central St. Martins School of Art and Design London.
Also spent a year in Japan studying three-dimensional design and ten months in Malaysia working on various world-reaching design projects for the International Organization of Consumers Unions and JUST World Trust.
STOP GENDER VIOLENCE
Poster to fight against Domestic Violence.
Design work experience in London includes time with Fulcrum (Design Consultants), Newell and Sorrell Design Ltd., as well as a stint in the Department of Graphic Design of BBC Television.
From 1983 until 2000 I was the principal of The Maviyane-Project, a design studio in Harare. As a result of the social, humane and confrontational nature of my work, I felt compelled to temporarily leave Zimbabwe because of the adverse political climate there.
FACISM/RACISM
Poster emphasizing where racism takes root
Poster emphasizing where racism takes root
Films written, directed and produced by me include ‘After the Wax — personal view of nationality and identity’ (1991.17 min,16 mm in colour). This work has been screened at several film festivals and television channels around the world where it has won several awards and accolades.
As well as being published in numerous International magazines and newspapers, my design work has also been acknowledged in Who’s Who in Graphic Design, First Choice: Leading International Designers, Rewriting the Rules of Graphic Design, Digital Portfolios Unzipped, Graphic Agitation 1 & 2, Graphic Design Timeline — A Century of Design Milestones, World Graphic Design, Celebrating Posters, Area: Showcasing 100 of the world`s most innovative emerging graphic designers, History of Graphic Design, Design for Dissent, International Poster Excellence, Anatomy of Design, Designer Portraits, Lovely Language and was included in the list ID Forty, ID magazine’s annual honours list profiling leading-edge designers from around the world. New York 1998.
THE COST OF LIVING
Poster on HIV/AIDS awareness.
Poster on HIV/AIDS awareness.
In 2009 I was conferred with an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Amongst other awards I am also the first recipient of the Anthon Beeke International design award, Amsterdam and recognised by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with an award for outstanding innovator in his commitment to the struggle to transform society and create a just future as well as by Simmons College, Boston with an award for courage and integrity in using art to stimulate activism for social change. In November 2003 I gave the prestigious Dwiggins lecture sponsored by the Society of Printers and the Boston Public Library.
TUKU MUSIC
CD Cover for a musician whose totem is an elephant.
CD Cover for a musician whose totem is an elephant.
Besides extensive individual and group exhibitions worldwide, my design work has been represented in most of the largest international graphic, invitational and poster exhibitions from 1980 to the present time, while I have also been invited to judge several international exhibitions and competitions.
My work is included in several international permanent collections in various galleries.
I am presently writing a book about my work entitled “Creative Defiance”.
100% AFRICAN
Dignity and Identity T shirt.
Dignity and Identity T shirt.
EXHIBITIONSA list of the past 3 years.
- 2010: Solo exhibition: ‘Creative Defiance’, Rose Lehrman Art Gallery,
- HACC, Harrisburg, USA
- 2010: Selections, Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and
- Design, Boston USA
- 2010: Solo exhibition: ‘Dissent’, Spencer Presentation Gallery,
- Endicott College, Beverly, USA
- 2009: Voices in Freedom, Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City, Mexico
- 2009: Migration, Athens International Poster Exhibition, Greece
- 2009: Visual Voices, Center Gallery, Fordham University Lincoln Center,
- New York, USA
- 2009: Agitadores de Conciencia, Canary Islands, Spain
- 2009: Stop World Hunger, CdD Design Centre of Rosario,
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 2009: Shigeo Fukuda Memorial Exhibition, Poster Art Gallery,
- Helsinki, Finland
- 2009: World of Posters, The Danish Poster Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
- 2009: 17th International Lahti Poster Biennial, Finland
- 2009: Masterpieces, Ljubljana National Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2009: 3rd International Graphic Biennial of the Islamic World,
- Tehran, Iran
- 2009: 9th International Poster Triennial in Toyama. Japan
- 2009: Solo exhibition: ‘Rights’, UMass Lowell. USA
- 2009: Ekoplakát / 40 posters from 11th Trienal Ekoplagát ilina 2008.
- Czech Republic
- 2009: Politics, Protest, Poster, Tufts University, Boston, USA
- 2008: Speak Out, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, USA
- 2008: 10th International Biennial of the Poster. Mexico
- 2008: Many Rivers to Cross, Oval House, London, UK
- 2008: Golden Bee 8 Biennale, Moscow. Russia
- 2008: 11th Trienal Ekoplagát ilina. Slovak Republic
- 2008: 7th Ogaki International Invitational Poster Exhibition. Japan
- 2008: 21st Poster Biennale, Warsaw. Poland
- 2008: Thoughts on Democracy, Wolfsonian Institute, Miami, USA
- 2008: Reflections In Exile: Five Contemporary African Artists Respond
- To Social Injustice, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset & Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, USA
- 2008: Rights for Africa Day, Limerick City Hall, Ireland
- 2008: D’Ailleurs..., Espace Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2008: Ex-pression of Zimbabwe, Université d’Avignon, France
- 2007: Solo exhibition: ‘Rights’, Black Cultural Center,
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
- 2007: Eye Opener, Museum for Communication, Den Haag, Netherlands
- 2007: Lovely Language: Words Divide, Images Unite,
- Centraal Museum Utrecht, Netherlands
- 2007: 10th International Triennial of the Political Poster, Mons, Belgium
- 2007: A Reflexive Journey: The Immigrant Experience in Art,
- Stonehill College, Easton, USA
- 2007: AIDStop, CdD Design Centre of Rosario, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 2007: Posters for Cultural Diversity, National Museum of Fine Arts of
- Havana, Cuba
- 2007: Designer Portraits, D4 Business Center, Luzern, Switzerland
- 2007: Universal Language, Museum of Fine Arts, Novosibirsk, Russia
- 2007: NewAfrica, Rundetaarn, Copenhagen, Denmark
- (will go on world tour)
- 2007: 16th International Lahti Poster Biennial, Finland
- 2007: The 9th Tehran International Poster Biennial, Iran
- 2007: Savannah College of Art & Design, USA. 2007
- 2007: Jury exhibition: 2nd International Poster Competition
- ‘Anti AIDS - Ukraine’
- 2007: Repressed II, Gallery 5, Richmond, USA
- 2007: Associates Fanfare, St Botolph Club, Boston. USA
- 2007: Graphic Messages from GGG & DDD 1986–2006,
- Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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