Nolan Oswald Dennis

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Nolan Oswald Dennis (born 1988) is a South African artist who works at the crossroads of science, technology, and political history. He was born in Lusaka, Zambia, to South African parents in exile during apartheid and grew up in Midrand, South Africa. He earned a B.Arch from Wits University in Johannesburg and an MSc in Art, Culture, and Technology from MIT.

A 2025 ArtReview review describes his practice as incisive and boundary-crossing, mixing sculpture, film, diagrams, and other media while engaging Black and Indigenous African histories and struggles. He has shown work at Zeitz MOCAA, Kunstinstituut Melly, the Liverpool Biennial, the Shanghai Biennial, Gasworks Gallery, and the Swiss Institute in New York.

Dennis collaborates with Bogosi Sekhukhuni and Tabita Rezaire as the art collective NTU. They have won the FNB Art Prize (2016) and the Videobrazil Jury Prize (2023). He was shortlisted for the 2023 Future Generations Art Prize (announced in 2024).