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 ArtDaily, Berlin Art Link Magazine and Artthrob. The most recent article is Sharjah Biennial 2027 announces theme and artists written for Art Review in April 2026.

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studio notes III

By Nolan Oswald Dennis

Goodman Gallery

studio notes II

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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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

Pax Africana

By Nolan Oswald Dennis

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After-World (Schema ,18

By Nolan Oswald Dennis

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Past Exhibitions

inSITE: Nolan Oswald Dennis: Demonstrations (i)

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library

La Jolla | California | USA

Oct 25, 2025 - Jan 17, 2026

Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena

The Drawing Center

Soho | New York | USA

Oct 17, 2025 - Feb 01, 2026

From the Cosmos to the Commons: Between Stars and Signals

Kunsthaus Hamburg

Hamburg | Germany

Jun 21, 2025 - Aug 17, 2025

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Articles

Sharjah Biennial 2027 announces theme and artists

Art Review Apr 27, 2026

The 2027 Sharjah Biennial, curated by Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento, will be titled What remains, sits restive, the Sharjah Art Foundation has announced.

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.

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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