Cassi Namoda (b.1988) is a painter whose work transfigures the cultural mythologies and historical narratives of life in post-colonial Africa, particularly those of the artist’s native Mozambique. Namoda’s paintings are highly elusive, drawing upon literary, cinematic and architectural influences that capture the expansiveness of her
specifically Luso-African vantage point. The idiosyncratic subjects who appear and reappear in Namoda’s paintings also convey this hybridity: they emerge from African indigenous religions just as much as they spring from Western mythologies.
Having lived in Haiti, the United States, Kenya, Benin, Uganda and other countries, Namoda has acquired a grasp of place that is at once grounded and subversive.
Selected solo exhibitions
2022
Life has become a foreign language, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, SA
Tropical Depression, Xavier Hufkens, Rivoli, Brussels
2021
Forgotten Limbs, François Ghebaly, LA, US
The sun has not yet burned off the dew, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
2020
To live long is to see much, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Little is Enough For Those in Love, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
2019
The Day a Monkey is Destined to Die All Trees Become Slippery, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles
Little is Enough for Those with Love/Mimi Nakupenda, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2018
Outside the Witch Doctor’s House, Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami
2017
Meat is Meat & Our Nightly Bread, OOF Books, Los Angeles
We Killed Mangy Dog, Harper’s Books, Hamptons, New York
Bar Texas, 1971, Library Street Collective, Detroit
Island of Earth, Front Room Gallery, Los Angeles
Selected Group exhibitions
2022
Body Language, Andrew Krepps Gallery, New York, USA
2021
Citizens of Memory, The Perimeter, London, UK
Winter of Discontent, 303 Gallery, New York, USA
2020
Authenticité, Goodman Gallery, Online programme
American Women, La Patinoire Royale-Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels
2019
LA Dreams 2, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden
Sister Sister, The National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa
2018
Coping Mechanisms, Library Street Collective, Detroit, USA
BioPerversity, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The Adderall and The Ecstasy, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, Romania