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Peter Ngugi

Peter Ngugi
Ngugi was born in 1978 in Nairobi, Kenya.  He completed his Primary Education Certificate in 1992 and his Secondary Education Certificate in 1996 in Thika on the outskirts of Nairobi. Upon leaving school, he went to Limuru, Kenya, where he worked as a shoe salesman for a year.  At this time, Peter used to paint during his free time, but didn’t show his work.

In 1998, he moved back to Thika and started another small business selling shoes. He also met a few artists, who in turn, introduced him to galleries in Nairobi.  

Ngugi started out as a realistic painter using oils.  Later he visited the National Museum’s “Gallery of Contemporary Art” and the works he saw were an inspiration. This encouraged him to develop his own style and his work slowly progressed from realism to a contemporary style.

His first group exhibition was at the National Museum of Kenya, “Art Festival” in 1999.  The response that he received from that show was so overwhelming that he stopped selling shoes to concentrate on art.  
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Selection of works

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Peter Ngugi - Powers That Be - Oil on canvas - 200h x 200w  cm - Kshs 900 000
Peter Ngugi - Untitled II - Oil on canvas - 68h x 51w  cm - Kshs 100 000
Peter Ngugi - Untitled I - Oil on canvas - 68h x 51w  cm - Kshs 100 000
Peter Ngugi - Untitled VII - Oil on canvas - 68h x 51w  cm - Kshs 100 000
Peter Ngugi - Form ni Gani? I - Oil on canvas - 66h x 56w  cm - Kshs 150 000
Peter Ngugi - Add Royco, Add Kachumbari I - Oil on canvas - 76h x 51w  cm - Kshs 135 000
Peter Ngugi - Add Royco, Add Kachumbari II - Oil on canvas - 76h x 51w  cm - Kshs 135 000
Peter Ngugi - Soda Kubwa ya Mkubwa, 2018 - Oil on canvas - 210h x 155w cm
Peter Ngugi - Untitled, 2019 - Metal - 274h x 90w x 62d cm

Exhibitions

2018 - 'Fanta Orange Na Mkate Nusu', One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
2015 - 'Tomorrow is Today', One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
2013 - 'The Pigs of Thika Town', One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
2008 - Solo Exhibition, RaMoMA Museum of Modern Art, Nairobi, Kenya
2005 - Solo Exhibition, RaMoMA Museum of Modern Art, Nairobi, Kenya
2002 - Solo Exhibition, RaMoMA Museum of Modern Art, Nairobi, Kenya

His work has also been shown in many group exhibitions in Kenya, USA and in Europe. 

Awards

2014 - The Ruth Hunt Wood Kenyan artist’s residency at Kentucky University in Lexington. 

Collectors

  • Commercial Bank of Africa
  • Gertrude’s Garden Children’s Hospital.  

Press

EastAfrican - 13-10-2018 - GALLERIES: Food for thought is a feast for the eyes
​Kenyan Arts Review - 09-10-2018 - ​PETER NGUGI: ‘WEAPONIZING’ ART WITH PATTERNS OF TRUTH
Business Daily - 20-08-2015 - Visual chronicler of Kenyans’ everyday lives and struggles
East African - 07-08-2015 - The award for most improved artist goes to…
Business Daily - 05-12-2014 - Peter Ngugi: From used cars, shoes salesman to top Kenyan artist
EastAfrican - 01-08-2014  -  Portraits of a troubled nation
Business Daily - 16-05-2013  -  Using Political satire to pass message

Peter Ngugi is exclusively represented in East Africa by One Off
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