BEATRICE WANJIKU

About

Name:Beatrice Wanjiku Njoroge 1978 E-mail addressbetku@yahoo.comThe paintings challenge one to look beyond the surface through the exposure of their hidden stories. Using a process of simultaneous multiplicities the images play with the processes of revealing and concealing. Through the use of layering and texture in the paintings each fresh thought and new ideas grows off the previous both literally and metaphorically. The use of typography has been key texts lifted from magazines novels and newspapers with their self reflective prose to explore ideas such as vanity humanity adaptation memories and transitions.
The contrast between abstraction, text, montage and layering and the image of the face on several of my paintings is to explore the notion of the self through the perception of the other. The face as the final layer gives something recognizable to the viewer, a point of clear identification rooting the play of words and ideas in the physical human form and our most immediate expression of the self, the face. … Read More

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Education

CURRUCULUM VITAE
Name: Beatrice Wanjiku Njoroge
Date of birth 1978
E-mail address betku@yahoo.com

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
1983-1992 Musa Gitau Primary School
1993-1996 Parklands Arya Girls High School
1998-2000 Buru Buru Institute of Fine Arts
SELECTED WORKSHOPS
2010 Kitengela Savannah women’s glass workshop
Economy of creativity “money and meaning”
2008 Wasanii international workshop Mombasa
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)
2005 Triangle insaka international workshop Zambia
2004 Wasanii international workshop
(Facilitated by Kuona trust)
Printing workshop
(Facilitated by London based artist Mandy Bonel)
International East African Women’s workshop
(Organized by kuona trust)
RESIDENCY
2006 Kuona Trust
(10th international artist residence)
AWARDS
2011 The Robert Sterling Clark Fellowship
(Vermont Studio Center)
2006 The Most Promising Female Artist Award
(By Alliance Franciase) the French cultural center
EXHIBITIONS
2010 Solo exhibition at Le Rustique Oct 8th-10th Nov
Politics of art and the art of politics (video Installation) Kuona trust
Corruption (Kuona trust)
2009 Solo RaMoMA Museum of Modern Art Nairobi.
Artist without Borders Triangle exhibition.
2008 Africa Now (emerging talents from a continent on the move) Washington DC
“How I like it” Village market an artist initiative for the displaced
-Art for peace at the Godown Arts Center
-Contemporary art in Kenya 2 years on .French cultural centre
2007 Group exhibition at the Godown Art center
Three some At the Godown Art center
2006 Africa Within: Many Eyes One Soul
(The Royal Commonwealth Society) London UK
Kuona Trust10th international Artists Residency
2005 Bankside gallery London
2004 “Utopia” RaMOMA
2003 “East African women’s Workshop Exhibition” Gallery of Contemporary East African Art, National Museums of Kenya
PUBLICATIONS

March 23-29 EastAfrican Magazine
Aug 2006 Feature on African journal

REFEREES

Danda jaroljmek
danda@kuonatrust.org … Read More

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Events & Exhibitions

Events

2013 Unesco / Aschberg Bursary Djerassi Artist Program USA
2013 Bonhams Auction http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20560/lot/5/

Exhibitions

2012 Solo exhibition OneOff Contemporary Gallery, Nairobi.
2012 Fufuka-Funika, Cover-Recover (Group exhibition)
2011 Vermont Studio Center September - November
2011 Ziba Ufa (Installation) Kuona Trust Nairobi
2011 Columbia City Gallery (Africa: The Mother of Us All)Jan 26-13th Mar
2010 Solo Exhibition Le Rustique Oct 8th-10th Nov
2010 Politics of art and the art of politics (video Installation) Kuona trust, Nairobi.
2009 Artist without Borders Triangle exhibition.
2009 Solo Exhibition RaMoMA Museum of Modern Art, Nairobi.
2008 Africa Now, Washington DC
2008 “How I like it” artist initiative for the displaced
2008 Art for peace at the Godown Arts Center Nairobi
2008 Contemporary Art in Kenya 2 years on. French cultural centre
2007 Three some At the Godown Art center
2006 Africa Within: Many Eyes One Soul (The Royal Commonwealth Society) London UK
2006 Kuona Trust10th international Artists Residency
2005 Bankside gallery London
2004 “Utopia” RaMOMA
2003 “East African women’s Workshop Exhibition” Gallery of Contemporary East African Art, National Museums of Kenya
… Read More