Nolan Oswald Dennis is a para-disciplinary artist. Their practice explores “a black consciousness of space”—the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonisation—questioning histories of space and time through system-specific, rather than site-specific interventions.
Their work has been featured in exhibitions at the Liverpool Biennial (2023); FRONT triennial, Cleveland (2022); CAN, Neuchatel (2022); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2021); Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Cape Town, London (2021, 2019 etc.); the Young Congo Biennale, Kinshasa (2019); MACBA, Barcelona (2018); among others. They are a founding member of the artist group NTU, a research associate at the VIAD research center at the University of Johannesburg, and a member of the Index Literacy Program.