Shona Sculpture Annual Exhibition

Zimbabwe is internationally recognized for its Shona stone sculpture movement, with Harare institutions including the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and Chapungu Sculpture Park in Msasa central to its development and display. A specific, independently confirmed event fixed under the exact name Shona Sculpture Annual Exhibition could not be verified, though the underlying sculpture tradition and its major Harare venues are well documented.

Zimbabwe's modern stone sculpture movement began to take recognizable shape in the late 1950s at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, then newly established in Harare, under the direction of Frank McEwen, a British curator who took an unconventional approach in Rhodesia, actively seeking out and encouraging self-taught Black artists to work in stone rather than imposing formal European academic training.