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. His most recent work is marked by a fundamental curiosity about the world’s iconic sites and their histories. In Fuyana’s abundant and 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. In 2022, his work was shown at Art Joburg and as part of African Galleries Now on Artsy. He was selected for a special Artsy campaign at public transport metro stations across America’s largest cities. In 2023, Fuyana’s first European solo took place with Duende Art Projects in Antwerp, Belgium, and his work was presented as a solo by Guns & Rain at 1-54 London.

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