Fungai Benhura
(b. 1990, Harari, Zimbabwe) lives and works in London. He graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2024. Benhura’s layered paintings, built from found materials, shift between abstraction and figuration, evolving through cycles of destruction and reimagining.
Fungai Benhura
untitled , 2024
Paper, ink and acrylic on canvas
120 x 130 cm,
Fungai Benhura
Float , 2024
Paper and acrylic on canvas
130 x 120 cm,
Recent solo exhibition: Both Directions At Once, Incubator 24, London (2024).
Benhura’s work, inspired by jazz improvisation, combines torn, collaged, and painted surfaces with found materials, creating rhythmic compositions rooted in both history and spontaneity. Influences range from Lee Krasner and Mark Bradford to Coltrane and Velasquez, with vivid bursts of colour and texture revealing a constant interplay of structure, freedom, and discovery.