Installation view, Hurukuro, curated by Augusto Arbizo, James Cohan, New York, NY, March 1 - April 5, 2025. Photo by Dan Bradica.
Installation view, Hurukuro, curated by Augusto Arbizo, James Cohan, New York, NY, March 1 - April 5, 2025. Photo by Dan Bradica.
Installation view, Hurukuro, curated by Augusto Arbizo, James Cohan, New York, NY, March 1 - April 5, 2025. Photo by Dan Bradica.
Installation view, Hurukuro, curated by Augusto Arbizo, James Cohan, New York, NY, March 1 - April 5, 2025. Photo by Dan Bradica.
VIRGINIA CHIHOTA
Hamunyaradze kuva ii (can’t silence being II), 2023
Silkscreen and mixed media on canvas
96 x 108 in.
243.8 x 274.3 cm
JCG18552
ANTHONY BUMHIRA
Coronavirus, 2019
Acrylic and printing inks, thread, and textile and canvas
92 x 107 in.
233.7 x 271.8 cm
JCG18481
ANTHONY BUMHIRA
Maputso, 2018
Acrylic and printing inks, thread, and textile and canvas
49 x 118 in.
124.5 x 299.7 cm
JCG18482
VIRGINIA CHIHOTA
Hamunyaradze kuva ii (can’t silence being II), 2024-2025
Silkscreen and mixed media on canvas
110 x 118 in.
279.4 x 299.7 cm
JCG18551
ANTHONY BUMHIRA
Hurukuro Ne Mhemberero, 2018
Acrylic and printing inks, thread, textile and doilies on canvas
65 x 56 in.
165.1 x 142.2 cm
JCG18485
VIRGINIA CHIHOTA
Hamunyaradze kuva iii (can’t silence being III), 2023-2025
Silkscreen and mixed media on canvas
98 x 108 in.
248.9 x 274.3 cm
JCG18553
ANTHONY BUMHIRA
Smiles on my Blanket, 2017-2018
Acrylic and printing inks, thread, collage, and doilies on fabric blanket
80 x 75 in.
203.2 x 190.5 cm
JCG18484
VIRGINIA CHIHOTA
Hamunyaradze kuva i (can’t silence being I), 2024
Silkscreen and mixed media on canvas
82 x 112 in.
208.3 x 284.5 cm
JCG18554
ANTHONY BUMHIRA
Interior, 2019
Acrylic and printing inks, thread, cotton, doilies, collage and textile and canvas
46 1/2 x 41 1/2 in
118.1 x 105.4 cm
JCG18483
VIRGINIA CHIHOTA
Ngatigare tikurukure (let us sit and converse), 2025
Silkscreen and ink on on Arches cotton rag paper
47 5/8 x 31 1/2 in.
121 x 80 cm
JCG18555
VIRGINIA CHIHOTA
Ndodonhera ini (a fall for self), 2025
Silkscreen on paper
39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in.
100 x 70 cm
JCG18558
VIRGINIA CHIHOTA
Aripo anondinhonga (there is one who always picks me), 2025
Ink on Arches cotton rag paper
47 5/8 x 31 1/2 in.
121 x 80 cm
JCG18556
James Cohan is pleased to present Hurukuro, a two-person exhibition curated by Augusto Arbizo, featuring the work of Anthony Bumhira and Virginia Chihota, on view from March 1 through April 5, 2025, at the gallery’s 52 Walker Street location. This marks the first gallery exhibition in New York for both artists. James Cohan will host an exhibition walkthrough with Virginia Chihota and Augusto Arbizo on Saturday, March 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM, followed by an opening reception from 4-6 PM.
Hurukuro (the Shona word for “conversation”) brings together the work of Anthony Bumhira and Virginia Chihota to establish a personal and quietly potent dialogue. Bumhira and Chihota reflect on themes of intimacy, domesticity and the body, using the language of the everyday to pose broader existential questions. Both artists draw from their biographies, using their upbringing, family, religion, and community as foundational lenses to explore the intersections of personal and collective histories.
Hurukuro showcases large-scale, wall-based works that incorporate a variety of materials including fabric, thread, blankets, and paper doilies in Bumhira’s work; and printing inks, acrylic paint, and canvas in Chihota’s paintings. During the artists’ time at the National Gallery School at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, the curriculum emphasized commercial art techniques and ideas, such as multiples of genre pictures of street life and market scenes. These technical and formal ideas—which includes printmaking processes and the serial use of forms—would become instrumental in the early development of both artists. Bumhira and Chihota’s practices incorporate these core precepts as a point of departure to materially and compositionally innovative ends.
