Sane Wadu Fine Artist Portfolio

Sane Wadu -- Fine Art

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Sane Wadu is a Fine Artist.

Sane Wadu

Sane Wadu was born in 1954 in Nyathuna, Kenya. In the early 80's, after completing high school, he worked as a teacher and later as a court clerk. Wadu is a poet and a writer, he wrote plays and poetry.

Sane Wadu began painting professionally in 1985. He used mainly water-colours and household paints on clothing and sheets of plastic. His eccentricity became a subject of ridicule among friends and neighbours and they began to refer to him as "insane", especially since he gave up a secure career as a teacher and clerk in pursuit of painting, which to most was an abnormality. His response to their taunts was to adopt the name Sane which later became his nom de plume.

Later he took up oils and moved from clothing and plastic to paper and canvas. Though he had received no formal training, his creativity and drive quickly secured him a national and international audience. He has had one-man exhibitions in New York and his work has been shown in the USA and Europe.

Exhibitions

2008: Sane Wadu Studios, Ramoma {Museum of Modern Art} Nairobi.

2002: Late Date, Gallery Watatu, Nairobi

2001: Endangered Species, French Cultural Center, Nairobi, Kenya.

2001: Contemporary African Art, Mbari Institute, in Maine.

2001: Creative Ways , A Traveling Art Exhibition by Shari Davis and
         Benny Fredman.

2000: Crossover, the Living Room Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.

1998: Mirages, Gallery of East Africa Contemporary Art, Kenya.

1998: Skoto Show, Skoto Gallery, New York.

1996: Concrete Narratives, White chapel Gallery, London

1994: Custodian View, Johannesburg, 80th Africa.

1993: African Contemporary Art, Purco Art Gallery, To~o and
          Nagoya, Japan.

1993: Entddeckung, Kunst Aus Ostafrica, Ludwigshafen, Germany.

1993: Grafolies Biennale, Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

1995: Variations, Gallery of East Africa Contemporary Art, Kenya.

1989: Art without Boundaries, Philippe Briet Gallery, New York.

1989: Sane Revisited, Gallery Watatu, Nairobi.

1986: Selected Works of Sane Wadu, Brooks Adobe Art Center,
           Santa Barbara, California.

Workshops

2006, 2008, 2007: Global Alliance Students for Africa, Art Camp in
            Arusha, Tanzania.

2001: Artist-in-Residence, Caribbean Contemporary Art, CCA7,
          Trinidad and Tobago.

2001: Big River International Artist Workshop at CCA7, Trinidad and
         Tobago.

1999: Wasanii International Artist Workshop, Lake Naivasha, Kenya.

1999: Kenya Museum Art Studio, Nairobi, Kenya.

1998: Triangle Artist Workshop, World Trade Center, New York.

1998: International School of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.

1997: Ngecha YMCA Artist Workshop, Kenya.

1995: Watatu Foundation Artist Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya.

1994: Mbile International Artist Workshop, Lusaka, Zambia.

1994: Wildebeest Artist Workshop, Lamu, Kenya.

Publications

1) Angaza Africa 'Adrican Art Now ‘by Chris Spring-Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2008.

2) Thelathini Kuona Trust,Nairobi 2003

3) Action and Vision,the Triangle Art Trust, 2002

4) Africus: Johannesburg Biannual, Transitional Metropolitan Council,
Johannesburg 1995.

5) Agathe, Johanna-Wegzeeichen,' Kunist Ostafrica 1974 - 89 (signs;
Art From East Africa. 1974-89); Museum Fur Volkerkunde Frunkfurt 1990.

6) Dellis, Clementine, Ed- Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa;
Flam Marion, New York, 1995.

7) Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield, Contemporary African Art; Thames and
Hudson, NewYork, 1999.

8) Klien Bernd, Kunist Aus Kenya; Graphium Press, Wuppertal,
Germany.

9) Magnin, Andre and Jaques Soililou, Eds- Contemporary Art of
Africa,' Harry N Abrams Inc., New York, 1996.

10) Sotheby's Auction catalogues, 1999 and 2000.

11) Grove-Macmillan Dictionary of African Art, 1996

12) Time Magazine, Peter Graff, February 10th 1997.

Education

^{I did my General School Certificate in 1976, and did no Art in school.}

^{So I am a self taught Artist.}

Interest

I am mostly interested with the positive achievements as concerns my career, the very

Personal best in the blink of life as an artist. I am also interested with inspiring the

Upcoming artists and their own success. I am interested with sharing my experience as an Artist with any interested persons from any community any where in the world.

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