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A Black woman wearing a flower crown

Tamary Kudita (Zimbabwean, b. 1994), Sight Unseen I, from the series African Victorian, 2019, inkjet print, Private Collection of Lesley Goldwasser and Jonathan Plutzik, with thanks to VISU Contemporary art gallery, © Tamary Kudita

A Black woman wearing a large gown holds a large clay pot

Tamary Kudita (Zimbabwean, b. 1994), African Pot II, from the series African Victorian, 2021, inkjet print, Private Collection of Lesley Goldwasser and Jonathan Plutzik, with thanks to VISU Contemporary art gallery, © Tamary Kudita

A Black man wears a red robe and stands on top of a mountain at sunset

Tamary Kudita (Zimbabwean, b. 1994), King’s Peak, from the series Birds of Paradise, 2022, inkjet print, Private Collection of Lesley Goldwasser and Jonathan Plutzik, with thanks to VISU Contemporary art gallery, © Tamary Kudita

A Black man surrounded by flowers holds a book and a quill pen

Tamary Kudita (Zimbabwean, b. 1994), Thoughts of a Black Man, from the series Birds of Paradise, 2022, inkjet print, Private Collection of Lesley Goldwasser and Jonathan Plutzik, with thanks to VISU Contemporary art gallery, © Tamary Kudita

A Black woman wearing a shiny dress rides a horse

Tamary Kudita (Zimbabwean, b. 1994), Liberty 1980, from the series Birds of Paradise, 2022, inkjet print, Private Collection of Lesley Goldwasser and Jonathan Plutzik, with thanks to VISU Contemporary art gallery, © Tamary Kudita

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Tamary Kudita: African Victorian and Birds of Paradise

May 3, 2025–Spring 2026

Gallery 104
Free admission
Friends of Photography

Tamary Kudita (b. 1994) makes photographs that examine African identity in relation to the social and historical forces that frame individuals’ lives. Kudita lives and works in Zimbabwe, a country formerly colonized by Great Britain. She traces her family heritage to the Shona-speaking people of Zimbabwe and to a nineteenth-century union between a Black South African plantation worker and a Dutch soldier. Mixing cultural signifiers across centuries and continents, Kudita’s portraits make the hybrid nature of African identities visible while giving everyday Zimbabweans their due. 

This special feature is made possible by the Private Collection of Lesley Goldwasser and Jonathan Plutzik, with thanks to VISU Contemporary art gallery.

 

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