Introspective in nature, Virginia Chihota's work is deeply influenced by personal experiences - landmark and everyday. In a reflection on intimacy and the human figure, she has addressed themes such as childbearing, childrearing, marriage, kinship, bereavement and faith. At once mundane and transcendental, rife with allusions to everyday life, and religious and folkloric symbolism, her large works on linen display a raw, expressionist verve and a striking grace in the elaborate use of patterns, textures and layers. 

Virginia Chihota was born in 1983 in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe and currently lives and works in New York, USA. She graduated in Fine Arts from the National Art Gallery Studios in Harare, Zimbabwe in 2006. Chihota represented Zimbabwe at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and was awarded the Prix Canson in the same year. In 2021, her works were commissioned by the Opéra National de Paris, France for Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida. Recent exhibitions include: As Feeling Births Idea, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK (group - 2024); Chibereko Chakaramba Kuudzirwa (The Womb Refused To Be Told), Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK (solo - 2023); 35th Ljubljana Biennale, Ljubljana, Slovenia (group - 2023); I See You, Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos, Nigeria (group - 2022);