Masimba Hwati is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice weaves sculpture, sound, performance, micro-politics, and indigenous philosophy into experimental frameworks that explore everyday forms of resistance and negotiation. He holds a PhD in Art Practice from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, an MFA from the University of Michigan, and a National Diploma in Fine Arts from Harare Polytechnic. Hwati was a 2025 Fellow at the Clark Art Institute (USA) and is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019, USA) and the Coady Institute, St. Francis Xavier University (Canada). He is also an honorary research fellow at Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa DSI/NRF South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI), Rhodes University, South Africa. His work is represented in major collections, including the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Jorge M. Pérez Collection (USA), Iziko South African National Gallery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada), Manchester Contemporary (UK), and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. He has exhibited widely across Africa, Europe, and North America. Hwati’s publications include Der Seeteufel (2022) and Sokunge (As if) (2021). Sound projects include MShika-shika Guerilla poetics and the black market (2021), Deutschlandfunkultur. Lakenights-Tape (2019), Hwati-Collino (2020), and Soil, Root, Leaf (2025). His residencies include Skowhegan (USA), HUB BUB (USA), The Radio Art Residency in Weimar (Germany), and VIAD (South Africa, 2025).