Raymond Fuyana

Zimbabwe

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About the Artist

As a deaf person, Raymond Fuyana’s (b. 1995, Zimbabwe) experience of the world is charged by how meaning is conveyed through the visual. Trained as a printmaker at the Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg, Fuyana is a self-taught painter whose approach to imagery, composition and subject matter is influenced by Surrealism.

Employing his own personal colour coding, and drawing on his belief in the power of science, technology and gaming, Fuyana’s paintings converge around fantasy, technology and the environment. Some of his work is inspired by the world’s iconic sites. In Fuyana’s futuristic imaginary world, there are no limitations on time, space or other dimensions.

Raymond Fuyana relocated from Zimbabwe to South Africa in 2009 to attend the St Vincent’s School for the Deaf, where he learned Sign Language. Fuyana has exhibited in multiple group exhibitions, and has had solo shows in both South Africa and Belgium. In 2023 Guns & Rain presented his work at the 1-54 Art Fair in London. In 2024, Fuyana also exhibited in the USA for the first time, at the Toledo Art Museum. His work sits in multiple private collections around the world.

Learn more about Raymond’s practice via this video and follow Raymond on Artsy.

Exhibitions

2024 Beyond the Board, solo exhibition at Guns & Rain, Johannesburg
2024 Strategic Interplay: African Art and Imagery in Black and White, group exhibition, at Toledo Museum of Art, USA
2024 FNB Art Joburg, solo booth, Guns & Rain
2024 As We See It, group exhibition, Ebony Curated, Cape Town
2024 DECADE: 10 Years of Guns & Rain, Guns & Rain, Johannesburg
2023 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, solo booth, Guns & Rain, London
2023 A World Unheard, solo exhibition, Duende Art Projects, Belgium
2022 FNB Art Joburg, Guns & Rain
2022 African Galleries Now, African Art Galleries Association X Artsy
2021 Those Summer Nights, Guns & Rain, Johannesburg
2021 Fresh Voices, Guns & Rain Gallery, Johannesburg
2021 Home Coming, RIT/NTID Dyer Arts Center, Online
2021 Joburg Fringe, The Art Room, Johannesburg
2019 Rise or Fall (Unknown Tomorrow), Association of Arts Pretoria, Pretoria
2019 After a Fair, The Art Room, Johannesburg
2019 Latitudes Art Fair, Artist Proof Studio, Johannesburg
2018 Irma Stern original Still Life Competition, Strauss and Co. Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg.
2018 Edition Variable Graduate show, Artist Proof Studio, Johannesburg
2017 J.H Pierneef Original Works Strauss and Co., Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg