exhibitions
Major International Exhibitions
60 Posters Celebrating the Planet, Brazil & Argentina. 2024–2026
Freedom Projekt, Poland & USA. 2023–2026
Seiretsu Mizu International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Ogaki, Japan. November 2024
Illustrating Voices, Nhaka Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe. February 2024
Posters for Fellini, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Poland, France etc. 2022–2026
Movement & Permanence, 17th International Poster Biennial, Mexico. 2022
60 Carteles Celebrando el Planeta, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2022
Movement & Permanence, 17th International Poster Biennial, Mexico. 2022
Black Brown Dialogue, César Chávez Institute,17th International Poster Biennia, Mexico. 2022
Singulier Plurielles. International Design Biennial, Cité du design, Saint-Etienne, France. 2022
Shanghai Design 10x10 Poster Exhibition of 100 Masters of Design, Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, China. 2021
Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest. Letterform Archive, San Francisco, USA. 2021
Jan Rajlich Homage exhibition. Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic. 2021
Design of Dissent, Museum of Design Atlanta, USA. 2020
The Magic Bus and the Walker Poster Society Woodstock 50 tribute, Mexico City. 2020
Ogaki Festival World Poster Exhibition, Japan. 2019
Gwangju Design Biennale, South Korea. 2019
EXTRA BOLD. Arts & Innovation Center Gallery, New Jersey, USA. 2019
Look Both Ways. School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery, New York, USA. 2019
Brace Yourself, Art Space Gallery, Fresno City College, USA. 2019
UBUNTU Invitational Exhibition, Rotonda della Besana, Milan, Italy. 2018
26th International Invitational Poster Biennale, Warsaw, Poland. 2018
El Trazo Ecuménico del Chango – Invitational, International Poster Biennial in Mexico. 2018
Presidential Rogues Gallery: Satirical Posters 1960s to the Present, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, USA. 2016
Questioning the Bomb: History and Non-Proliferation, The University of Maryland Art Gallery, USA. 2015
Posters without Borders, USA. 2013 - 2015
Yurdaer Altintas International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Turkey. 2015
No Xenophobia, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts, Durban, South Africa. 2015
Views–Sarajevo 1914-2014, Bosnia & Herzegovina. 2014
Ogaki International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Japan. 2001 - 2013
Vis-à-vis: Library Les Silos, France. 2013
Network of Mutuality: 50 Years Post-Birmingham, USA. 2013
Tribute to Rene Wanner, Biennial of Poster, Bolivia. 2013
The Power of the Poster: Access Gallery, USA. 2013
Golden Bee Biennale, Russia. 2000 - 2012
4th Block International Triennial of Graphic of Graphics and Posters, Ukraine. 1997 - 2012
Aarhus International Poster Show, Denmark. 2012
From the Great Earthquake To Re-Creation, Japan. 2012
Russia Rising: Votes for Freedom, Russia. 2012
25 on 25 Kiev, Moscow, Berlin, Warsaw, Gartow, Freiburg. 2011
Détournement, Tarble Arts Center, USA. 2011
On the Edge Between History and Design, Taiwan. 2011
Intertidal Age: Taiwan’s 1st International Graphic Design Exhibition, Taiwan. 2011
No More Child Labour, Argentina. 2011
This is What Democracy Looks Like, USA. 2011
Graphic Intervention: International AIDS Awareness Posters, USA. 2010
Where is My Vote: Posters for The Green Movement in Iran, USA. 2010
International Biennial of Social-Political Poster, Poland. 2010
More. Design for Change. Firenze Fast Forward, Italy. 2010
Marmara University 1st International Invitational Poster Biennial, Turkey. 2010
International Graphic Biennial of the Islamic World, Iran. 2009
Masterpieces, Slovenia. 2009
Visual Voices, USA. 2009
Agitadores de Conciencia, Spain. 2009
Stop World Hunger, Argentina. 2009
Shigeo Fukuda Memorial Exhibition, Finland. 2009
World of Posters, Denmark. 2009
Voices in Freedom, Mexico. 2009
Migration, Athens International Poster Exhibition, Greece. 2009
Lahti Poster Biennale, Finland. 1983 - 2009
Ekoplagat, Slovak Republic. 1993 - 2009
International Biennial of the Poster, Mexico. 1994 - 2018
Poster Biennale, Poland. 1980 - 2008
Rights for Africa Day, Ireland. 2008
D’Ailleurs..., Espace Arlaud, Switzerland. 2008
Thoughts on Democracy, USA. 2008
Reflections In Exile: Five Contemporary African Artists Respond To Social Injustice, USA. 2008
Many Rivers to Cross, UK. 2008
Graphic Messages from GGG & DDD 1986 - 2006, Japan. 2007
Tehran International Poster Biennial, Iran. 2007
NewAfrica, Rundetaarn, Denmark (goes global). 2007
Universal Language, Russia. 2007
AIDStop, Argentina. 2007
Posters for Cultural Diversity, Cuba. 2007
Eye Opener, Netherlands. 2007
Lovely Language: Words Divide, Images Unite, Netherlands. 2007
International Triennial of the Political Poster, Belgium. 2007
80+80, France & China. 2006
60th anniversary of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Invitational Poster Exhibition, Japan. 2005
Culture Catalysts – the cultural force of communication design, Portugal. 2005
International Poster Biennial in Seoul, Korea. 2002
The Alphabet as Art. Invitational exhibition, USA. 2003
Toulouse Lautrec. Invitational International Poster Exhibition, begins France (goes global). 2001
Globalize This -Los Angeles International Biennial Art Invitational, USA. 2001
International Poster Biennial in Hong Kong, China. 2001
Taipei International Poster Biennial, Taiwan. 1997 - 2000
Trnava Poster Triennial, Slovakia. 1994 - 2000
Design 2000 International Invitational Poster Exhibition, China/Taiwan. 2000
'Coexistence' International Poster Exhibition, begins Middle East (goes global). 2000
Invitational International Poster Exhibition, Hana Haru Fest, Japan. 1999
Brno Biennale of Graphic Design, Czech Republic. 1984 - 1998
Football, 20th Century Culture Exhibition, France. 1998
International Triennial of Stage Posters, Bulgaria. 1998
Brecht 100 Plakate, Germany. 1997
International Biennial of the Poster, Argentina. 1995
Inter Graphic 84, Germany. 1984
30 Posters on the Environment & Development, Brazil plus 27 other countries. 1992
Plus over 50 localised exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
Creative Defiance, North Carolina Central University Art Museum, Durham, USA. 2022
Ogaki Matsuri Festival World Poster Exhibition, 13 Yama posters by Chaz Maviyane-Davies, Japan. 2022
And Still I Rise, Fort Point Gallery, Boston, USA. 2018
Creative Defiance, York College Galleries, York College, USA. 2018
Visualizing Social Change, Fine Arts Gallery, Mt. San Jacinto College, USA. 2017
'Creative Defiance' including ‘A World of Questions’, Art & Design Gallery, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, USA. 2016
‘A World of Questions’, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA. 2016
Visual Resistance, Rouse Gallery, Penn State University, USA. 2016
‘A World of Questions’, Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. 2015
Awakening World Awards, Imam Ali Museum of Arts, Tehran, Iran. 2012
‘Being’, De Affiche Galerij, Den Haag, Netherlands. 2011
‘Posters’, Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, USA. 2010
‘Collateral Damage’, Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Boston, USA. 2010
‘Creative Defiance’, Rose Lehrman Art Gallery, HACC, Harrisburg, USA. 2010
‘Dissent’, Spencer Presentation Gallery, Endicott College, Beverly, USA. 2010
‘Rights’, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA. 2009
‘Rights’, Black Cultural Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. 2007
‘The Conscious Eye’, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA. 2006
Missouri State University, Springfield, USA. 2005
‘Guerilla Designer’, Veermarkstraat, Breda, Netherlands on behalf of DeBeyerd Cultural Centre. 2005
Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, USA. 2004
Myers Center, Simmons College, Boston, USA. 2003
Honor Laureate solo exhibition: 13th Colorado International Invitational Poster, USA. 2003
'Human rights Human Lives' AIGA/MassArt, Boston, USA. 2002
Fort Jesus Gallery, Mombasa/ British Council, Kenya. 2002
'Dignity: The World of Chaz Maviyane-Davies', DDD Gallery, Osaka, Japan. 1999
‘Rights’ National Gallery of Zimbabwe/European Commission. 1997
‘Rights’ Loveland Museum, Colorado, USA. 1997
'Knowledge Will Set you Free' British Council, Harare, Zimbabwe. 1993
Co-exhibition with Alex Joe, Standard Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe, (Graphic Design and Photography). 1984