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Benjamin Katiyo

  • Skill Category: Sculptors
  • Present Address: Harare, Zimbabwe
  • Country: Zimbabwe
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Biography

Benjamin was born in 1970 in Murewa. His early ambition was to become a preacher, but his younger brother Royal – an acknowledged Zimbabwean sculptor – inspired him to invest these emotional energies in sculpting. He started sculpting in 1996, at Gavazi Art Centre in Mvurwi. In 2002 he moved to Chapungu Sculpture Park where he is working now. Benjamin works in Springstone and Verdite. He gives these materials life by using different textures and polishing techniques. He is mainly acknowledged for his ability to express human emotions – desperation, sadness, joy, togetherness and grief. He has created small and medium sized works and also ventured into larger pieces, often depicting aspects of his own culture. Talented Katiyo is a very determined, hard working and enthusiastic artist.

News / Ranking / Titbits / Awards

Exhibitions: 1998 Zimbabwe Heritage Biennale National Gallery; 2000 EXPO Hanover, Germany; 2001 Custom and Legend – A Culture in Stone, Missouri; Botanic Gardens, USA; 2002 Boyce Thomson Arbondum, Phoenix, USA; 2003 Chicago Botanic Gardens and Garfield Park, USA; 2004 Denver Botanic Gardens, Colorado, USA; 2005 Frankline Conservatory, Central Park, Ohio, USA; 2006 Missouri Botanic Gardens, St Louis, Missouri, USA; 2008 Kansas Botanic Gardens, Kansas, USA

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