Current
2023-2025: Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten | Amsterdam, Netherlands
Awards/Grants
2021 Follow Fluxus-After Fluxus
2018 Research/Exhibition grant: Goethe Institut, Nairobi
2017 Young Artist Award: Cape Town Art Fair
2016 Barclays L’atelier: Top 10 Finalist Award, Johannesburg
2015 Young Art Fund Award: YAA, Amsterdam
2014 Moving Africa Travel Grant: Goethe Institut, Nairobi
Residencies
2022 Ichinomiya City | Aichi, Japan
2022 Swap Space Graz: Convened by the artist-research group; Simularr | Virtual
2021 Follow Fluxus-After Fluxus Residency | Wiesbaden, Germany
2019 WIELS Centre d’Art Contemporain | Brussels, Belgium
2016 Lamu | Kenya
2016 Gasworks | London, UK
2015 32° East Ugandan Arts Trust | Kampala, Uganda
2014 The Bag Factory | Johannesburg, South Africa
2012 Centre for Contemporary Art | Lagos, Nigeria
Major Art Events
2022 Aichi Triennale | Aichi Prefecture, Japan
2022 Kochi-Muziris Biennale | Kerala, India
2019 Lofoten International Art Festival | Svolvær, Norway
2018 Dak’Art – Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain | Dakar, Senegal
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Model II: Construction | AFFILIATE, Brussels
2023 BODY MACHINE LOCATION | Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
2023 DIVISION: Before Line/ After Image | Goethe Institut, Nairobi
2021 Shapeshifting & the Impossibility of Weathered Wood | Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany
Select Group Exhibitions
2024/2025 Rijksakademie Open Studios | Amsterdam, Netherlands
2021 The Only Lasting Truth is Change: Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts | Bergen, Norway
2021 Cosmic Mothers: Mimosa House | London, UK
2021 To the Edge of Time: KU Leuven University Library | Leuven, Belgium
2018 Geographies of Imagination: SAVVY Contemporary | Berlin, Germany
2018 New Threads: Investigating process and material | Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi
2017 The New Observatory: Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT) | Liverpool, UK
2017 Disappearance at Sea. Mare Nostrum: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art | Gateshead, UK
Publications / Limited edition artist books
2025 Text contribution to Words. A publication presenting the writing and text-based explorations of twenty-five Rijksakademie artists
2025 Exquisite Edition: Lithography transfer tests on newsprint paper with handwritten text
2025 100cm: Drypoint print of a foldable ruler on watercolour paper. 10cm when folded, 100cm when unfolded
2025 Chasing Muybridge: A flip book to accompany 24 projected slides
2024 Text contribution to Matter Mattering Matters: A Scienticity Reader | Edited by Kabelo Malatsie & Lantian Xie
2022 Artist Monograph | Notes Movement Method
Film programming
2025 Six Minutes: a screening of time-based work by Rijksakademie residents | Eye filmmuseum | Amsterdam
2024 Rehearse, Replay, Repeat: a screening of time-based work by Rijksakademie residents | Het Documentaire Paviljoen | Amsterdam
2024 The Journey of the Hyena | Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten | Amsterdam
2022/2023 Program developer: Artists’ cinema, video and experimental film | Nairobi
2016-2018 Program developer: Out Film Festival | Goethe Institut | Nairobi
2016 Program developer: Mid-morning Cinema feat. films by African Filmmakers | The Art Space | Nairobi
Select Talks & Presentations
2025 Six Minutes: In conversation with Silvia Gatti, Anna Abrahams & Ansuya Blom | Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2025 Drawing studies: a brief introduction | Collections room | Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2025 The Reading Group: from glossary to garden | Matter Mattering Matters book launch | Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam
2025 In defense of the poor image | March internal open studios | Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2024 Rehearse, Replay, Repeat: In conversation with Katarina Jazbec, Lili Huston-Herterich, Miloš Trakilović, Reyhan Lál and Zauri Matikashvili | Het Documentaire Paviljoen, Amsterdam
2023 In conversation with Jonathan Sölanke Fraser | Goethe Institut Library, Nairobi
2021 Volcano | Online polyphonic orchestration | Convened by Discursive Justice Ensemble
2021 In conversation with Maria Rusinovskaya | Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts | Bergen, Norway
2021 Performing Arts Forum (PAF), Spring Meeting | St Erme, France
2021 The Intervention, in conversation with Joan Legalamitlwa | Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
2021 In conversation with Jonathan Sölanke Fraser on the occasion of his solo exhibition | Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi
2018 Goethe Institut: In conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans & James Muriuki | Nairobi, Kenya
2018 Cape Town Art Fair: Panel with Penny Siopis & Hasan Essop | Cape Town, South Africa
2017 Out Film Festival: Panel moderator- The Artist in the quiet revolution | Nairobi, Kenya
Select video screenings
2022 Slides for sun & machine projection | Artists’ cinema, video and experimental film program | Nairobi
2022 There are Worlds Out There They Never Told You About | VEZA 02 | SP-Arte, São Paulo
2022 The Planets, Chapter 32 | Horizons, Singapore Art Week & Kadist Video Library | Singapore
2021 How Clouds are Formed (4 videos) | The Intervention, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
2020 The Planets, Chapter 32 | 5th Floor, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève | Geneva
2020 The Planets, Chapter 32 | A4 Art Museum & Kadist Video Library | Chengdu
2019 The Planets, Chapter 32 | SHE DEVIL XI- Studio Stefania Miscetti | Rome
2019 The Planets, Chapter 32 | COSMICS- N22 Gallery | Bangkok
Select performances
2018 Fossils | Live performance | Rongai
2015 Seer | Live Performance | Goethe Institut, Nairobi
2015 I Can’t Wait To See You | Johannesburg, Amsterdam, Kampala
2014 In The Case of Books | Interactive group performances | Nairobi & Kampala
2012 The Dissemination of Information | Two person live performance | CCA, Lagos
Art & Book Fairs
2024 Poster design: Breaking Even Art Book Fair | Rijksakademie | Amsterdam
2022 L’African Art Book Fair @ Biennale de Dakar (AABF) | Dakar
2021 Art Fair: Cromwell Place | London
2021 Art Dubai: Video Art Programme | Dubai
2017/18 Cape Town Art Fair | Cape Town
2016/17 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair | London
2016 FNB Joburg Art Fair | Johannesburg
Other projects
2013 In the Case of Books: Kampala, 2015 | Nairobi, 2014
2020 The Anthropocene Museum. A project by Cave Bureau
2018 Research: On archives & Joseph Murumbi’s Library | Kenya National Archives
2014 Cast: Bulb, A short Sci-fi film. 48Hour Film Project | Nairobi
