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Ehoodi Kichapi

Ehoodi Kichapi
Ehoodi Kichapi (b. Jesse Ng’ang’a) is a self taught artist, who has been painting for the last fifteen  years. His artistic life started in 2002, through doing caricatures as an instructor for the Kuruka Maisha art group.  He had his first solo show in 2007 at the Alliance Francaise, in Nairobi, Kenya.

“His work is expressive and graphic: energetic line drawings, circles, marks, scribblings, figures, rudimentary images of animals, portraits, screaming faces and reaching hands create harsh and brutal images.  Wild colourful acrylic paint is applied in thick sweeping strokes, creating abstract sections in his work that are just about colour and movement.” (From 2009 East African Art Biennale, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania).

Since being represented by One Off Gallery, Kichapi has successfully exhibited in Cape Town with Nini Gallery and in Madrid with Gazzambo Gallery.  Whilst he credits Francis Bacon, Mark Rothko and Jean-Michel Basquiat as his inspiration, he is fast achieving his own individual practice and a strong, often witty, original voice.​

Selection of works

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Ehoodi Kichapi - Vanity Fair Cow I, 2016 - Mixed media on canvas - 75h x 98w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - A Cool Bike, 2017 - Mixed media on canvas - 106h x 115w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - The Head of Cow, 2017 - Acrylic on canvas - 94h x 152w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - A Woman Standing In front of the Cow, 2017 - Mixed media on vinyl - 114h x 182w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Red Man on Blue, 2017 - Mixed media on vinyl - 90.50h x 70.50w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Wild Cat, 2017 - Mixed media on vinyl - 90h x 69w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Sitting Position III, 2017 - Mixed media on canvas - 112h x 69w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Sitting Position I (African Woman), 2017 - Mixed media on canvas - 112h x 70w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Sitting Position II (African Woman), 2017 - Mixed media on canvas - 116h x 73w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Untitled I, 2017 - Mixed media on canvas - 115h x 115w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Untitled II (sleepless in Seattle - Mixed media on vinyl - 90 x 70.5cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Standing Position III, 2017 - Mixed media on vinyl - 103h x 71w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Wild Cat in the city, 2017 - Mixed media on vinyl - 72h x 119w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - The Seat of Power - Diptych, 2017 - Mixed media on vinyl - 94h x 150w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Wild Cat Series - Blue, 2017 - Mixed media on vinyl - 93h x 72.50w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Woman - Mixed media on paper - 64h x 45w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - A Sitting Cow - Mixed media on paper - 45h x 64w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Extension of a Sitting Position, 2017 - Mixed media on vinyl - 115h x 116w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Red Donkey with Yellow, 2017 - Acrylic on canvas - 99h x 76w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - A boy dog, 2017 - Mixed media on vinyl - 97h x 75.50w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Old Man, 2017 - Mixed media on vinyl - 74.50h x 70.50w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Dentist, 2017 - Mixed media on vinyl - 78.50h x 55w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Seated Image of a Woman, 2017 - Mixed media on canvas - 98h x 75w cm
Ehodi Kichapi - Genuine Donkey II, 2017 - Mixed media on vinyl - 101h x 72w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Veknir, 2017 - Mixed media on canvas - 98h x 73.5w cm
Pesticide - Mixed media on canvas - 110h x 158w cm
Ehoodi Kichapi - Cow head, 2017 - Mixed media on vinyl - 114h x 72w cm
Maize Forehead - Ehoodi Kichapi - Mixed media on canvas - 95h x 100w cm

Exhibitions

2019 - "Documentation", Solo exhibition, One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
2018 - "Contemplations", Solo exhibition, One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya

2016 - "Ehoodi Kichapi" - Solo exhibition, One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
2014 - Solo exhibition, One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
2013 - Solo exhibition, Ateliers mommen, Brussels
2012 - "Lamentations", One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
2009 - "Elaborations", RaMoMA Museum of Modern Art, Nairobi, Kenya
2007 - Solo exhibition, Alliance Francaise, Nairobi, Kenya
 
Six of Kichapi's paintings were chosen for a year long exhibition in Scandinavia. 

Kichapi's painting of the singer Ali Farka Toure has been taken to Italy for exhibition at the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples.

Residencies

2006 - Awarded the University of Kentucky’s Artist in Residence Program, a four month Ruth Hunt Wood Fellowship.  

Press

​EastAfrican - 14-07-2018 - Now breaking free with a wicked wit​
​EastAfrican - 11-06-2016 - 
Nuclear physics and the science of art
EastAfrican - 28-08-2014  -   A show in the pincers of a coconut crab
EastAfrican - 17-07-2014  -   Angry city moved by falling star
East African - 5-07-2013   -   Relationships that give satisfaction
EastAfrican - 13-04-2012  -  Waiting for Jesse to explode... again
Business Daily - 12-04-2012  -  Ehoodi Charlatan or Kenyan Picasso?
EastAfrican - 22-02-2010  -  Meet the onion, it’s soft but can make you weep
EastAfrican - 16-01-2010  -  Master comic Ng’ang’a’s works for Scandinavia
EastAfrican - 23-01-2009  -  The revolution will be rerun...

Ehoodi Kichapi is exclusively represented in East Africa by One Off
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