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Chaz Maviyane-Davies

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Chaz Maviyane-Davies (born 1952) is a Zimbabwean-born graphic designer based in Cambridge Massachusetts, the United States.[1][2] Maviyane-Davies has been described by the United Kingdom's Design magazine as “the guerrilla of graphic design.”[3][4] He earned a BA from Middlesex University and an MA at the Central School of Art and Design, London. He has worked in Britain, Japan, Malaysia, the United States, and Zimbabwe.

Career

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Due to adverse political conditions in his homeland of Zimbabwe and the confrontational nature of his work, Maviyane-Davies moved to the United States in 2001, where he became a professor of design at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.[5] In addition to being published in numerous books, international magazines, and newspapers, his work has been exhibited[6] extensively and is included in several permanent collections at various galleries.[7] He has been an invited speaker at numerous universities and creative platforms.[8][9] In 2009, he was conferred an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. For more than three decades the Maviyane-Davies’s powerful work has taken on issues of consumerism, health, nutrition, social responsibility, the environment and human rights.[10] In the 1980s and 1990s, Maviyane-Davies ran a studio in Zimbabwe called The Maviyane Projects that specialised on films and graphic designs.[11]

Personal life

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He is married to Chiyoko and has a daughter Djena.

Exhibitions

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He has exhibited his work around the globe from invitational exhibitions of posters to solo shows in China,[12] Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, France, Ukraine, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, England, and the Netherlands among other countries.

Publications

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A world of questions: 120 posters on the human condition (2015)[13]

References

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  1. ^ Magee, Carol (2000). "Maviyane-Davies, Chaz". Grove Art Online. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T096412. ISBN 978-1-884446-05-4. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  2. ^ "Creative Defiance | The Graphic Design of Chaz Maviyane-Davies". www.maviyane.com. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  3. ^ Bunte, Brooke (2018-04-08). "Outtakes: The Chaz Maviyane-Davies Interview". Is This How You Art. Archived from the original on 2021-07-22. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  4. ^ Murg, Stephanie (December 28, 2007). "From Zimbabwe, with Love: Graphic Activist Chaz Maviyane-Davies". Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  5. ^ Faces of MassArt: Chaz Maviyane Davies, retrieved 2021-07-22
  6. ^ "And Still I Rise: Chaz Maviyane-Davies | AIGA Boston". Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  7. ^ "Chaz Maviyane-Davies - Posters Without Borders - International Immigration Poster Exhibition". posterswithoutborders.com. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  8. ^ "Zimbabwean graphic designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies to speak March 30 | Penn State University". news.psu.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  9. ^ "The Nelson Mandela Lecture - Chaz Maviyane-Davies". Graphic Art News. 2019-09-21. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  10. ^ "Finding our humanity and breaking barriers through artistic intervention". Design Indaba. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  11. ^ "Chaz Maviyane-Davies | Zimbabwean graphic designer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  12. ^ Penang Institute Chats #15 - CHAZ MAVIYANE DAVIES, retrieved 2021-07-22
  13. ^ Maviyane-Davies, Chaz (2015). A world of questions: 120 posters on the human condition. ISBN 978-0-9966190-0-4. OCLC 946034732.
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