EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
VOLTA New York, Invitational Solo Presentation Project Fair, New York, USA, 2017
Beauty and Ugliness, One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014
Beatrice Wanjiku, RaMoMA Museum of Modern Art, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Personal Structures - Open Borders, Palazzo Mora, 57th Biennale di Venezia, Italy, 2017
When the Heavens Meet the Earth, The Heong Gallery, Downing College, Cambridge, UK, 2017
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York, USA, 2015 | Click here | Click here | Click here
The African Tree, Ostrale Centre for Contemporary Art, Dresden, Germany, 2015KunstRAI, Edition 31, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2015
Creativity Gallery, Nairobi National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya, 2015
BLOOOM/ART FAIR, Koelnmesse, Cologne, Germany, 2014
Africa III, Devearts, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2014
Afrikadag, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2014
Funika-Fufuka/Cover-Recover, Belgian Embassy, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012
Africa: The Mother of Us All, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, USA, 2011
Politics of Art and the Art of Politics, video Installation, Kuona Trust, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010
Artist without Borders, Triangle exhibition, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009
Africa Now, World Bank Washington DC, USA, 2008
Africa Within: Many Eyes One Soul, The Royal Commonwealth Society, London, UK, 2006
Residencies:
2013: Djerassi Residency Artist Program, San Francisco, USA
2011: The Vermont Studio Center Johnson, Vermont, USA2006: Kuona Trust (10th international artist residence) Nairobi, Kenya
Selected Workshops:
2010: Economy of Creativity “Money and Meaning”
2008: Wasanii International workshop, Mombasa, Kenya
Writer’s Art Critic workshop
2007: The Kuona Trust International Women’s Workshop
Shatana Triangle International Artist Workshop (Jordan)
Rafiki Triangle International Artist Workshop (Tanzania)
Awards:
2013: The Lava Thomas and Peter Danzig Fellowship
2013: UNESCO Aschberg Bursary Djerassi Artist Program USA
2012: Dak’Art Biennale Moving Art Africa (Goethe Institut) Senegal
2011: Robert Sterling Clark Fellowship (Vermont Studio Center)2006: The Most Promising Female Artist Award 2006, The French Cultural Centre, Alliance Française, Nairobi, Kenya
Press & Other Links:
Wilcox, Isabel, "Interview with Kenyan Artists Beatrice Wanjiku", Happening Africa, Nov 2016
Crow, Kelly, "The New Face of African Art", Wall Street Journal, May 2016
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair New York City August 2016
Brookes, Katherine, "12 Contemporary African Artists You Should Know", Huffington Post, August 2015
Whalley, Frank, "Dark thoughts in the dead of the night", The East African, January 2014
Jepchumba, Beatrice Wanjiku, Africa and Digital Art, November 2013