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 her BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2017. She is currently based in Amsterdam, in fellowship at the Rijksakademie (2021–2023). In 2020 Waruguru participated in the inaugural edition of the Stellenbosch Triennale, South Africa, and held her first solo exhibition, Small Things to Consider, at Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi. Recent select group exhibitions include: The Volkskrant Visual Arts Prize, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 2022; A Bit of Unruly Complexity, SANATORIUM Gallery, Istanbul, 2022; I Dreamed A Place For You, Will You Visit?, ROOF-A, Rotterdam, 2022; Lucid Dreams, Circle Art Gallery, 2019; New Threads, Investigating Process and Material, Circle Art Gallery, 2018. Waruguru has completed artist residencies in Lamu and Sydney. She has been nominated for the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunsten Prijs for Artists under 35.
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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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