EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
In TRANSITION, Roots Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium, 2011-12
Rear View, Goethe Institut, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Art Auction, Voss Foundation and Milgis Trust, Kistefos Museum, Oslo, Norway, 2015
SweKenya, 50 Years, Swedish Embassy, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014
NotAboutKarenBlixen, Interculture Museum, Oslo, Norway, 2014
Who is the City, Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013-14
Foreign Bodies – Common Ground, The Wellcome Collection, London, United Kingdom, 2013-14
Layers, Nairobi National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012
Nairobi: A state of mind, Kunsthaus, Bregenz, Austria 2012 - 13
The Urban Cultures of Global Prayers, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany 2011 –12
PhotoAfrica, Taarifa, Spain, 2011
The 3rd All ArtNow New Media, Art Festival, Syria 2011
NotAboutKarenBlixen, Karen Blixen Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010
Screenings - Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Naturama Museum, Denmark, 2010
Mwangalio Tofauti, The Nairobi Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010
SPace: Currencies in Contemporary African Art, Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2010
24 Nairobi, Nairobi National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya, 2008 –09
Africa.dot.Com: Drums 2 Digital, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, USA, 2008
Contemporary Video Art and Photography from Kenya, Kennesaw University, Fine Arts Gallery, Atlanta Georgia, USA, 2007
Kenyan photography, Fivemyles Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2006
Snap Judgements: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, International Center of Photography, New York, USA, 2006
Books & Group Exhibition Catalogues:
SweKenya, 50 Years, Nairobi, 2014
Layers, James Muriuki and Miriam Syowia Kyambi, 2012, Nairobi, Kenya
Faith is the place, The urban cultures of Global prayers, Germany, 2012
Mwangalio Tofauti – Nine Photographers from Kenya, Contact Zones NRB, 2012, Nairobi, Kenya
SPace: Currencies in Contemporary African Art, Africa World Press and Unisa Press, 2012, Johannesburg, South Africa
Events of the self: Portraiture and social identity, Germany
24 Nairobi, Nairobi, 2010
Contemporary African Art since 1980, USA, 2009
Snap Judgements: Shifting positions in Contemporary African Photography, New York, 2006
Projects & Residencies:
Future Africa: Visions in Time, Bayreuth Academy of African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany | Click here
Press & Other links:
Don't Wake Me Up, James Muriuki, 2014
In Residence, Delfina Foundation, 2014
Kassam, Zihan. "New Images of Africa" The Star, 6 July 2013
Muriuki, James. "Photo-medium and Arts Administration" Creative African Network, February 2012
Art in Global Health, Miriam Syowia Kyambi and James Muriuki at the Wellcome Collection
Matsubara, Megumi. "Socialogical Lunches by Megumi Matsubara" Another Africa 5 August 2011
"What's on in Nairobi: Exhibitions Retrospective by James Muriuki" What's up Kenya, November 2010
"Nairobi – A State of Mind Cooperation", Goethe-Institut Nairobi Kunsthaus Bregenz
"Cycles Series (2005)" East African Art