Nolan Oswald Dennis (born 1988) is a South African artist working between science, technology, and political history.
Biography Nolan Oswald Dennis was born in Lusaka, Zambia to South African parents in exile during Apartheid. He grew up in Midrand, South Africa.
Education Dennis completed a B.Arch at the School of Architecture and Planning at Wits University in Johannesburg, and a MSc in Art Culture and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.
Work A 2025 review for ArtReview described Dennis as working in "a incisive and excisional ‘para-disciplinary’ practice, which traverses sculpture, film, diagrams and other less readily categorised media.. summon[ing] and strategis[ing] with Black and Indigenous African forces". He has presented his work at Zeitz MOCAA, Kunstinstituut Melly; the Liverpool Biennial, Shanghai Biennial, Gasworks Gallery, and the Swiss Institute NY.
Collaborations Dennis works collaboratively with Bogosi Sekhukhuni and Tabita Rezaire as NTU
Notable Exhibitions ubuntu: un réve lucid, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2021 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, 2023 UNDERSTUDIES, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, 2024 overturns, Swiss Institute, New York, 2025
Awards and honours Awards include the FNB Art prize (2016) and the Videobrazil Jury prize (2023). He was on the shortlist of the 2023 Future Generations Art prize (2024)
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