Brandon Alfredo’s work centers African portraiture in tradition, identity, and lived experience. With photorealistic precision and a warm, immersive palette, his portraits span contemporary communities, historical reimaginings of African royalty, and diasporic reflections, depicting African life with dignity, complexity, and authority.
Brandon Alfredo is a Zimbabwean realist painter whose practice centers on African portraiture rooted in tradition, identity, and lived experience. Working primarily in oils, he has developed a distinctive approach that combines photorealistic precision with a warm, immersive palette dominated by earth tones, deep blues, and ceremonial reds.
Since 2017, Alfredo has built a body of work that spans contemporary African communities, historical reimaginings of African royalty, and reflections on Black identity across the diaspora. His subjects—ranging from East African elders to iconic figures drawn from African and diasporic history—are united by a commitment to depicting African life with dignity, complexity, and authority.
His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Wild Geese Art Festival and Jacaranda Art Fair in Zimbabwe, the Mornington Art Show in Australia, and the Cultural Heritage Gallery in Tanzania, one of East Africa's leading contemporary art spaces.