Cassi Namoda

Cassi Namoda (b. 1988, Maputo, Mozambique) currently lives and works in Italy.

Recent group exhibitions were held at Wellcome Collection, London (2024) and MoMu, Antwerp (2023), and her work also features in When We See Us, a major touring exhibition exploring a century of Pan-African figurative painting at Bozar, Brussels (2025). Recent solo exhibitions include Cranford Collection, London (2024) and at the Norval Foundation, Cape Town (2024) alongside Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (2024, 2022), 303 Gallery, New York (2023), Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (2020), Pippy Holdsworth Gallery, London (2020) and François Ghebaly, Los Angeles (2019). Namoda is currently participating in to carry, Sharjah Biennale 16, Sharjah, UAE.

Namoda’s work is held in the public collections at Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; MACAAL, Marrakesh; Long Museum, Shanghai; and the Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, among others. In 2023, she was a resident at Thread Senegal – Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Sinthian, Senegal; and in 2025, she will join the residency at the NESR Foundation, Luanda, Angola.

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Portrait of Cassi Namoda. Photo: Jesper Damsgaard Lund