Nolan Oswald Dennis
Nolan Oswald Dennis 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 and strategis 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 NTUNotable 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