Peterson Kamwathi
Education
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, 1998
Shang Tao media Arts College ‐ 2D, 3D Animation, 2005
Selected exhibitions2010
Ed Cross Fine Art – London, "...Matter of Record…"
The Edinburgh Arts Festival, Ed Cross Fine Art "The Spectre of Memory in Contemporary African Art"
Dakar Senegal, IFAN, "DAK’ART 2010" Biennale show
St Louis Festival – Senegal "Le nord, le sud, l'est et l'ouest" Ed Cross Fine Art
Johannesburg RSA, Museum Africa, "Space: Currencies in contemporary African art"
Mombasa‐Kenya, Old law courts, "Stereotype III project"
Vienna Austria, BrotKunsthalle, "Cocacolonized"
2009
Nairobi, Goethe institut, solo exhibition, "Sitting Allowance"
Nairobi, The GoDown art centre "Probe"
Nairobi, Kuona trust, "Stereotypes"
Liverpool, Liverpool world museum
Ed Cross Fine Art – London, "Seven Artists One Continent"
2008
Washington DC, World Bank headquarters, "Africa Now: emerging talent from a continent on the move"2007
Nairobi, Solo exhibition, Le rustique
Nairobi, solo exhibition, GoDown art centre
Lamu, Gallery Baraka, August
Lamu, Gallery Baraka, November
2006
Nairobi, East African printmaker’s exhibition, GoDown arts centre
Nairobi, RaMOMA, Printmaking exhibition
2005
University of Kentucky, Tuska center for contemporary art, Solo exhibition
London, Bankside gallery, Exhibition of Kenyan prints, part of Africa 05
2004
New York, "Off the main"
New York, university of Long Island, Selena gallery, "Kenya art"
Nairobi, National museum of Kenya, "Edition one", printmaker’s exhibition
Nairobi, Le rustique, "Two faces of love", two man exhibition
2003
Tilburg Holland, Leigh Park, Festival Mundial
Nairobi, Le rustique, "Insights into Kenya"
Nairobi, Karen Blixen coffee garden, BBC antiques road show
2002
Nairobi, Ngong racecourse, Solo exhibition
Selected workshops, residencies and projects
2010
Amsterdam, Guest resident, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
2009
Durban SA, Art for humanity, artist‐poet project
Nairobi Kenya, RaMOMA, "Touchwood" Facilitating a series of printmaking workshops
Nairobi Kenya, Goethe institute, Amnesia conversations, Panel discussion
New York USA, Art Omi International artist residency
2008
Mombasa Kenya, Urban Wasanii international artist’s workshop
Nairobi Kenya, Nairobi arts trust, Amnesia platform IV "the jetlag experiment"
Visit to Dakar biennale, Senegal
Human/Nature project, Mt. Kenya, assistant to Xu Bing
2006
Rorkes drift SA, Thupelo international artist’s workshop
Bath UK, Bath Spa University, Printmaking residency
London UK, London print studio, Printmaking residency
London UK, Gasworks studios, Artists’ presentation
Kenya Kitengela hot glass,’ Out of the box’ – bush glass workshop
Kenya Guest curator – East African printmaker’s exhibition, GoDown arts centre
2005
Lexington Kentucky, University of Kentucky Kenya artists in residence program
2004
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Rafiki art trust mural painting workshop
Lamu Kenya, Lamu fort museum, wasanii international artist’s workshop
Nairobi French cultural and cooperation center, Exhibition assistant to Marie Angie Bordas (Brazil) displacements exhibition
2003
Tilburg, Holland‐Nairobi Kenya, Kenya/Netherlands Exchange Program
