Kenyan, 1994

Agnes Waruguru is interested in everyday materials, especially those associated with the home and daily routines. Her practice is a weaving of slow meditative processes and quick reactive moments, at once formal and abstract, drawing together process and craft. Many of her works reference traditions of women’s work, personal identity politics and traditional cultural identifiers as modes to engage with memory, place and expanding notions of home. She draws from personal experience to create new landscapes which can often be memory or emotionscapes that invite the viewer to look slowly, imagine and speculate. 

Waruguru received a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design, USA. She has participated in residencies in Kenya, at the Saba Artists Residency in Lamu, Artspace in Sydney, Australia and in 2023 completed a two year residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Waruguru participated in the inaugural edition of the Stellenbosch Triennale, South Africa in 2020 and had her first solo show 'Small Things to Consider' at Circle Art Gallery later that same year. In 2022 she was nominated for the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prize and in 2024 for the Norval Sovereign African Art Prize. 

Recent exhibitions and Biennale invitations include: 'Echoes of Our Stories' at Quinta do Quetzal, 2023; 22nd Biennial Sesc–Videobrasil in Sao Paulo, 2023; 'Woven Sanctuaries', Rele Gallery, Los Angeles and 'Foreigners Everywhere’ the main exhibition at the Arsenale, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2024.

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