Art Basel, 24 January 2025

'Portia Zvavahera’s prophetic dreams': Ludovic Delalande delves into the processes that inform and characterise Imba Yerumbidzo, the artist's solo exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton  

ArtReview, 9 December 2025

Louis Bury offers a closer reading of Zvavahera's Hidden Battles / Hondo dzakavanzika at ICA Boston, concluding, 'When you’re standing in front of the paintings, their larger- than-human size looming over you, you don’t need an interpretive master key to recognise their gravity. Everything’s happening right there, on the taut canvas, all the drama of colour and shape and empty space...'

Studio International , 13 November 2024

'For me, it is the range of techniques and their curious combinations that is so compelling in these works. This, alongside Zvavahera’s commitment to a unique way of working through dreams, painting and prayer, creates work that is both technically and aesthetically accomplished' writes, Beth Williamson on the occasion of Zvakazarurwa, the artist's solo exhibition at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.

Ocula, 22 September 2020

Portia Zvavahera's Painted Dreams: Stephanie Bailey reflects on the artist's process and language, noting, a 'sense of deep timelessness is what Zvavahera's paintings convey'.

9 More Weeks, August 2018

'The path of the heart': 'Transferring the energy of my dreams into my paintings has helped me heal myself, and remove the negative energy from my nightmares,' says Portia Zvavahera in conversation with Sinazo Chiya

Frieze Magazine, January 2018

'Sumptuous, with a fine sense for balancing gesture and detail, these new paintings are characterized by various descriptions of hopeful containment and ambiguous embrace,' writes Sean O'Toole on Portia Zvavahera's Take Me Deeper

I'm with You, February 2017

'Ekphrasis for a Veiled Dream': Nomaduma Rosa Masilela observes Zvavahera's process, media and formative encounters in the essay accompanying the artist's most recent monograph

BOMB Magazine, Winter 2015

Zimbabwean singer and musician Netsayi in conversation with Portia Zvavahera about painting and congruencies in their creative processes