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Date of birth 1992 Nyando Kisumu, Kenya
Citizenship Kenyan
Studies
2019 – 2023 Bachelor’s in fine arts, Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HFBK),Hamburg Germany,Theoretical Bachelor Thesis:
Code Switching Disparities Through the Rapid Development Of ‘Sheng’ Language in Kenya
2012 – 2014 Diploma in Fine Arts, Mwangaza School of Fine Art, Kisumu Kenya, Certificate in painting, Drawing Sculpture
and Graphic Design
Professional Experience
2024/25 Currently Assisting Prof Dr. Astrid Mania at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HFBK), Hamburg Germany,
supporting her research project “TIAA - The International Alumni Archive”, a website that aims to
focus more on the history of the HFBK’s international students
2022/23 Assisted Prof Annika Larsson at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HFBK), Hamburg Germany
2023 Supervised Michel Majerus “Data Streaming” Exhibition, Kunstverein Hamburg Germany
2022 Supervised ‘The Mystery of Banksy’ Exhibition Hamburg Germany
2022 Library Archive assistant for Dr. Andrea Klier at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HFBK), Hamburg Germany
2021 Bookshop assistant for Steffen Oestreich at Sauter und lackmann fachbuch handlung, Hamburg Germany
2014/13/12 Visual Art Workshop instructor in partnership with Kisumu Artist for Children (KACP) Kisumu Kenya with
support from the DEN GRI Foundation
Selected residencies
2025 Art & Dialogue - Jordan National Gallery, Amman Jordan courtesy of European Union Delegation in Jordan
2019 Untethered Magic, Nairobi Kenya
2017 Airbrush Residency, Brush Tu Art Studio Nairobi Kenya courtesy of the Danish Embassy in Kenya
Selected workshops attended
2022/23/24/25 Mixed media workshop, HFBK, Hamburg Germany
2022/23 Ceramic workshop, HFBK, Hamburg Germany
2021 Virtual Reality Workshop/seminar with Dorianne O’Malley. HFBK, Hamburg Germany
2021 Plastic workshop, HFBK, Hamburg Germany
2020 Block print workshop, HFBK, Hamburg Germany
2019 Block print workshop, HFBK, Hamburg Germany
2018 Atwork ”I Had a Dream” chapter 12, Makerere Art Gallery, Kampala Uganda, courtesy of the Moleskine Foundation
2017 Wood Cut Print, Brush Tu Art Studio, Nairobi Kenya
2017 Etching and Aquatint, Kamwathi Art Studio, Nairobi Kenya
Solo exhibition
2025 Utopia - Dystopia, Kunsthaus Hamburg Germamny, Kindly supported by Hamburgische Kulturstiftung
2018 Pedagogy of Oppression, Alliance Francaise, Nairobi Kenya courtesy of Amnesty International Kenya
Selected group exhibition
2025 Dialogue, Jordan National Gallery, Amman Jordan, Kindly supported by the European Union in Jordan
2024 9 TO 5 - EIME FRAGE DER ZEIT (A QUESTION OF TIME); ICAT HFBK, Hamburg Germany
2024 Politics of Love, Kunst Haus, Hamburg Germany, Kindly supported by Liebelt Stiftung, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin and
Gerd Bucerius
2024 Passage, Deichtorhallen (Sammlung Falckenberg) , Hamburg Germany
2024 Academy Selection I 2024, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf Germany
2024 Transitions, The space, Hamburg Germany
2024 Jahresausstellung, HFBK, Hamburg Germany
2023 Thank You for Having Us, Frappant, Hamburg Germany
2023 Graduate Show 2023: Unfinished Business, HFBK, Hamburg Germany
2023 Lass Das, Ich Hass Das, Tangente, Vasenthien Germany
2023 Jahresausstellung, HFBK, Hamburg Germany
2022 Hiscox Kunstpreis Art Award Exhibition, HFBK, Hamburg Germany
2022 Jahresausstellung, HFBK, Hamburg Germany
2021 Fluctoplasma Festival Strike – Slip exhibition, Thalia Theater, Hamburg Germany
2021 Immer.Wieder.Widerstand (always.Again.Resistance), Museum am Rothenbaum, Markk, Hamburg Germany
2021 Jahresausstellung, HFBK, Hamburg Germany
2019 Kenya Art Panorama, Alliance Francaise de Nairobi, Kenya
2019 A Glimpse of East Africa, Victoria Island, Lagos Nigeria
2018 Stranger Times, Circle Art Agency, Nairobi Kenya
2018 Atwork ”I Had a Dream” chapter 12, Makerere Art Gallery, Kampala Uganda, courtesy of the Moleskine
Foundation
2018 Generation Y, Retro Africa, Abuja Nigeria
2018 Sanaafest, Kerry Packer Civil Gallery, South Australia
2017 Proximity to Power, Circle Art Agency, Nairobi Kenya
2016 wasanii Kenya Art Fair, Nairobi Kenya
2015 Essence, Nairobi Kenya
2015 Kenya Arts Diary 2016
Nominations
2022 Hiscox Kunstpreis Art Award. HFBK, Hamburg Germany
Grants
2024 Reisestipendium, coutersy of the private initiative Neue Kunst in Hamburg e.V. Founded by Dr. Michael
Schäfer, Judith Fell-Zeller, Dr. Hans-Jochen Waitz, Katharina Bittel, and Peter Labin
2023/24 Deutschlandstipendium HFBK, Hamburg courtesy of The Hamburg Federal Funding, Sammelstiftung
(collective foundation), The Karl H. Ditze Stiftung, The Rudolf und Erika Koch-Stiftung, The Könk Grant
Stiftung. Supplimented by funds provided by private sponsors in particular Dr. Hans-Joachim Waitz,
Dr. Claus Löwe, Dr. Harald Falckenberg and Verena Gräfe-Höft
2023 Leistungsstipendien für Internationale Studierende, HFBK, Hamburg courtesy of Hamburg Ministry of Science,
Research, Equality, and Municipalities, co-financed by Karl H. Ditze Stiftung
2022 FreundesKreis projekt stipendium der Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg supported by The Freundeskreis
der Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg e.V. (»society of friends«, a registered association)
Catalogues
2024 9 TO 5 Eine Frage der Zeit
2024 Politics of Love
2024 ENCOUNTERS, Academy Selection 2024
2022/23 Forschung und Transfer, Jahrbuch der Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg
2022 Hiscox Kunstpreis 2022
2020 Kenya Arts Diary 2020
2021/22 Absolvent*innen, Jahrbuch der Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg
2018 Stranger Times exhibition, Circle Art Agency, Nairobi Kenya
2018 Atwork ”I had a dream” chapter 12 exhibition, Makerere Art Gallery, Kampala Uganda,
2017 Proximity to Power exhibition, Circle Art Agency, Nairobi Kenya
2016 Kenya Arts Diary 2016
Press
Artline Kunstmagazine IV 2025
Norddeutscher Rundfunk NDR Hamburg
Gallery Talk Net
Artospective
Business Daily Africa
The East African
Kenyan Weekly
Daily Nation