Agnes Waruguru Kenyan, b. 1994
Agnes Waruguru Kenyan, b. 1994
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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 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.
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Works
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Exhibitions
Invocations: A Group Exhibition
Circle Art Gallery24 January - 24 February 2024Read moreEast African Encounters
Gallery 12, Cromwell Place, London5 - 17 October 2021Read moreAgnes Waruguru: Small Things to Consider
Circle Art Gallery9 September - 10 October 2020Read moreI Will See What I Want to See
Circle Art Agency13 November - 7 December 2019Read moreNew Threads: Investigating Process and Material
Circle Art Gallery31 January - 24 February 2018New 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,...Read more
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Art fairs
Africa Basel - Contemporary African Art Fair
Africa Basel16 - 22 June 2025Circle Art Gallery is participating in the inaugural edition of Africa Basel, 16 - 22 June, 2025 during Art Basel Week in Switzerland. We are...Read more1-54 London
Souad Abdelrassoul, Sujay Shah, Tiemar Tegene and Agnes Waruguru12 - 15 October 2023Read more
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