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Agnes Waruguru Kenyan, b. 1994

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Agnes Waruguru Kenyan, b. 1994

  • Overview
  • Works
  • Video
  • Exhibitions
  • Art fairs
  • Lives and works in Amsterdam
    Agnes Waruguru treats painting as a site and process for exploring the materiality of objects and their capacity to act... Agnes Waruguru treats painting as a site and process for exploring the materiality of objects and their capacity to act...

    Agnes Waruguru treats painting as a site and process for exploring the materiality of objects and their capacity to act as markers of identity and carriers of personal histories. She works predominantly on cotton, using dyeing, pouring and spraying alongside brushwork. These painterly processes are combined with acts of making learnt and inherited from the women in her life. Beadwork, sewing, needlework, embroidery and knitting are all incorporated in her work, intimately connecting aspects of personal identity with traditions of women’s work.

     

    Waruguru received a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design, USA. Her work has been exhibited in America, the Ivory Coast, France, the Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey and Kenya. She has participated in residencies in Kenya, at the Saba Artists Residency in Lamu and in Sydney, Australia. Waruguru participated in the inaugural edition of the Stellenbosch Triennale, South Africa in 2020 and had her first solo show Small Things to Consider at Circle Art Gallery later that same year. In 2022 she was nominated for the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prize and showed at the 22nd Biennial Sesc–Videobrasil in Sao Paulo in 2023. She recently completed a residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. She participated in the 69th Biennale di Venezia entitled 'Foreigners Everywhere' curated by Adriano Pedrosa.

    Waruguru had her second solo exhibition at Circle, What the Water left Behind December 2024 and was featured in The Artsy Vanguard Young Artists to Watch 2024 list; an annual feature highlighting the most promising artists working today. This year she was part of the Past is just the Prologue exhibition at Lis10 Gallery in Hong Kong and in May took part in 1-54 New York with Lis10 Gallery.

    Her work is included the following collections, Ford Foundation Collection, The African Arts Trusts Collection, the Africa First Collection, the ARAK Collection, Enasoit Collection and Shulting Art Collection.

  • Works
  • Video
  • Exhibitions
    • Invocations at Circle Art Gallery

      Invocations: A Group Exhibition

      Circle Art Gallery24 January - 24 February 2024
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    • East African Encounters

      East African Encounters

      Gallery 12, Cromwell Place, London5 - 17 October 2021
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    • Agnes Waruguru: Small Things to Consider

      Agnes Waruguru: Small Things to Consider

      Circle Art Gallery9 September - 10 October 2020
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    • I Will See What I Want to See

      I Will See What I Want to See

      Circle Art Agency13 November - 7 December 2019
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    • New Threads: Investigating Process and Material

      New Threads: Investigating Process and Material

      Circle Art Gallery31 January - 24 February 2018
      New Threads, Investigating Process And Material, considers artists' intimate engagement with material, how the medium and materials can dictate the form of a work of art. Artists understand their medium,...
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  • Art fairs
    • Dickens Otieno for Circle Art Gallery at Africa Basel 2025

      Africa Basel - Contemporary African Art Fair

      Africa Basel16 - 22 June 2025
      Circle Art Gallery is participating in the inaugural edition of Africa Basel, 16 - 22 June, 2025 during Art Basel Week in Switzerland. We are...
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    • Circle Art Gallery at 1-54 London 2023

      1-54 London

      Souad Abdelrassoul, Sujay Shah, Tiemar Tegene and Agnes Waruguru12 - 15 October 2023
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Agnes Waruguru, Slow Steady Stillness, 2024
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Agnes Waruguru Kenyan, b. 1994

Slow Steady Stillness, 2024
Acrylic ink, soft pastel, watercolour and natural pigment on watercolour paper
150.1 x 202 cm
59 1/8 x 79 1/2 in
Reserved

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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ), currently selected., currently selected., currently selected. Agnes Waruguru, Sea Bed, 2024
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