Shepherd Manyika is a London-based artist-educator whose works take on multiple formats and mediums. He is interested in memory, place, space and repair as restoration. Themes of workshops, play, music and sound are used to create transformative art spaces from within and outside the institution.

Manyika graduated with a BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2011 and an MA in Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication from Central Saint Martins in 2019.

Manyika has worked and exhibited with, Wysing Arts Centre, Iniva, AIR, Towner Eastbourne, PRAGMATA, THORP STAVRI, Forced Collaboration, FOLD GALLERY, Asc Gallery Artlicks Weekend, South London Gallery, Tate, Spike Island, Camden Arts Centre, Milton Keynes Arts Centre, Eastcheap Projects Space Hospital Rooms and Cement Fields.
shepmanyika@icloud.com

Instagram
@shepadimusgotnopliers


Artists CV

Solo shows

16/03/2024-14/04/2024 CIRCA - Eastcheap project space

26/08/2023-  27/08/2023 Sounding the Neighbourhood- South Bermondsey Festival - Bridge House 

14/07/2021 -12/08/2021 Me Myself and I // Home // My Grandmother’s House

09/18- 2019  Schools and teacher’s artist Residency, Tate

07/18–08/18 Sound Opus – Air studios

26/04/2018 UP, DOWN, START, STOP, performance, Uniqlo Tate Lates

24/04/18 Speak Now, ASSEMBLY, TATE Modern

10/06/2017 Objects for play, Diggin' the Gallery: Adventure, Tate Britain

09/2014 Sunday Spot South London Gallery

07/2014 SLG Play Local, Pelican Estate

Group shows
28-29/09/2024  Shepherd Manyika & Banana Sharks Youth Collective the love of fruit and the love of sharks- Towner Eastbourne 

06/09/2024     Prototype  - PRAGMATA Summer group show 2024

16/06/2024 -07/07/2023   2 for 1-  THORP STARVRI

20-/08/2021  Do you have Snapchat? Mapping The Fleet

05/06/2021 — 27/06/2021 Hypnos

27/05/2021                May Fair Showreel
03/10/2020- 11/10/20           FIVE HIDES 

2019 Garden gasp! Asc Gallery Artlicks Weekend

05/10/19 The palm tree picnic

30/09/19 Iniva Etat here we come

20/07/19–17/08/19 Another place (Space is the Place)

03/04/19–07/04/19 What We Did Last Summer

05/03/19–21/03/19 Education in Progress

19/01/19 Archipelago, Art Lab, Iniva

15/10/18 Alam, Manusia, Mekanis sound piece, 6:47 min, Forced Collaboration

08/18 Let's Decorate the Playground, South London Gallery

20/04/18 UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, Milton Keynes Arts Centre Plate Fundraiser

Curation and coordination


10/12/2021 Celebration of African Heritage & Culture

20- 08/2021 Do you have Snapchat? Mapping The Fleet

09/2021- Present ,African Heritage Schools Resource- A Milton Keynes Arts Centre and African Diaspora Foundation Project

2019 Garden gasp! Asc Gallery Artlicks Weekend

19/01/19 Archipelago, Art

24/04/18 Speak Now, ASSEMBLY, TATE Modern




Commissions
2022, The only way is up -Hospital Rooms 

10/12/2021 Sapphire resource

2012 Tell us about it, video commission UAL

2012 Camden council, CSM, digital print for mayor’s office



Publish and research papers

2018- South London Gallery & Freelands Foundation - Open Plan- Lets Decorate The Playground

06/2021-iniva - I As Monument in the past, the now and the future.

03/2019 Art as therapy within Socially Engaged Practices – Molly Foulkes

03/2019 Sampling through Hip-Hop and Arts Education – Now That’s What I Call Music 16

16/07/18 The Artist as Cultural Intermediary - Frieda Zapf

26/4/2021 This is a Remix_Monday Guest Lecture -Central Saint Martins

10/06/20 Art Proof Podcast EPISODE 12: SHEPHERD MANYIKA

Awards

06/05/2020 Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Teaching and workshop experience

Cement Fields
Central Saint Martins
TATE
INIVA
South London Gallery
Milton Keynes Arts Centre
Camden Arts Centre
The Welcome Collection