Agnes Waruguru (Kenyan, b. 1994),
Lives and works in Nairobi
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 women’s practices, traditional cultural identifiers and personal identity politics as modes to engage with memory, place and expanding notions of home moving between Kenya the country of her birth and her adopted homes. 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. Her work has been exhibited in America, the Ivory Coast, France, the Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey and Kenya.
Solo exhibitions include From What We Are, Casa Masaccio, Italy (2026); What the Water Left Behind, Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi (2024); Small Things to Consider, Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi (2020).
Dual and group exhibitions include The Roundness of Loss, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, (2025): Rememory, Garage Rotterdam, Netherlands (2025); Past Is Just the Prologue, Lis10 Gallery, Hong Kong (2025).
Residencies include the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2024), Saba Residency, Lamu (2019) and Artspace Residency in Sydney (2018).
Waruguru participated in the inaugural edition of the Stellenbosch Triennale, South Africa (2020), the 22nd Biennial Sesc–Videobrasil in Sao Paulo (2023) and the 60th Biennale di Venezia (2024).
In 2022 she was nominated for the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prize and was featured in The Artsy Vanguard: Young Artists to Watch in 2024.
Her work is included in the Ford Foundation Collection, The African Arts Trust Collection, the Africa First Collection, the ARAK Collection, the Enasoit Collection, the Shulting Art Collection, and Collection INELCOM in Madrid.
She has un upcoming solo exhibition at the Sanatorium Gallery in Istanbul.