Nolan Oswald Dennis

Zambian | 1988

Nolan Oswald Dennis is a Zambian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1988. Nolan Oswald Dennis's work has been offered at auction multiple times.Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Drawing Center have featured Nolan Oswald Dennis's work in the past.

Nolan Oswald Dennis in the news

Nolan Oswald Dennis has been featured in articles for Berlin Art Link Magazine, Artthrob and FAD Magazine. The most recent article is Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale presents third edition In Interludes and Transitions written for ArtDaily in February 2026.

Featured for Sale

articulated globe (pair)

By Nolan Oswald Dennis

Goodman Gallery

sūþ C or the root of south is sun

By Nolan Oswald Dennis

Goodman Gallery

sūþ D or the root of south is sun

By Nolan Oswald Dennis

Goodman Gallery

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At Auction

Notable Lots

Pax Africana

By Nolan Oswald Dennis

After-World (Schema - Nolan Oswald Dennis

After-World (Schema ,18

By Nolan Oswald Dennis

Polymelia (Mali/Milano) - Nolan Oswald Dennis

Polymelia (Mali/Milano) ,2018

By Nolan Oswald Dennis

Recent Auction Results

After-World (Schema ,18

By Nolan Oswald Dennis

Strauss & Co., Cape Town

Pax Africana

By Nolan Oswald Dennis

Aspire Art Auctions, Johannesburg

Past Exhibitions

Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena

The Drawing Center

Soho | New York | USA

Oct 17, 2025 - Feb 01, 2026

Nolan Oswald Dennis: overturns

Swiss Institute

New York | USA

Jan 22, 2025 - Apr 13, 2025

20 Artists: Global Positioning

Public Art Fund

57th Street | New York | USA

Jan 26, 2022 - Jun 05, 2022

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Articles

Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale presents third edition In Interludes and Transitions

ArtDaily Feb 03, 2026

The third edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, titled In Interludes and Transitions, opened its doors to the public on January 30, 2026, and runs through May 2.

Van Abbemuseum transforms into a dynamic sound chamber and stage

ArtDaily Jan 11, 2026

Longing for all that is different. Van Abbemuseum presents Positions #9: Make Some Noise: Desire. Stage. Change.

Hope in a New Dark Age: The 18th Istanbul Biennial

Berlin Art Link Magazine Oct 07, 2025

We live, as some theorists rush to declare, in a new dark age.

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Coverage

“ ..Engaging the urgent reemergence of decolonization and resistance discourses, Dennis identifies specific objects, infrastructures and texts through which he imagines new ways of mapping this critical moment... ”
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The Goodman Gallery, Cape Town

“ ..Dennis locates this body of work at the intersection of imperial time , contested memory and spacial neoliberalism so that they become a series of propositions for dissecting a long term transition – for... ”
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The Goodman Gallery, Cape Town

“ ..Dennis suggests thinking of artwork as prepositions rather than propositions... ”
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The Goodman Gallery, Cape Town

“ ..Combining this definition with the ‘option theory of decolonisation’— summed up by the statement “the world we want is a world in which many worlds exist”— Dennis envisions his work ‘not as a catalyst... ”
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The Goodman Gallery, Cape Town