Sane Wadu

Sane Wadu (b. 1954) started his career in painting in 1983, and is one of the founding members of Ngecha Artist Association. Wadu currently runs, with his wife Eunice Wadu, the Sane Wadu Trust for children’s education, where he conducts art workshops, as well as art therapy sessions in prisons and in Naivasha. He has exhibited locally with shows at the Gallery Watatu, Nairobi (1989, 1990, 1995); British Council, (1995); Gallery of East African Contemporary Art (1996, 1999); Red Hill Art Gallery; Alliance Franc¸aise, Nairobi; and the Rahimtulla Museum of Modern Art. His work has been shown internationally at the Brookes Adobe Arts Center, Santa Barbara (1986); Philippe Briet Gallery, New York (1989); Grafolies, Biennale d’Abidjan (1993); Stadtmuseum Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (1993); Parco Art Gallery, Tokyo and Nagoya (1993); Whitechapel Gallery, London (1995); Africus, Johannesburg Biennial (1995); Kunst Transit, Berlin (1999); and The Living Room Gallery, Atlanta (2000). His work sits in collections such as those of Jacques Soulilou and the late Robert Loder of Triangle Network, the collection of Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth, and the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main.