The Mixed Media Artist Collin Sekajugo

Collin Sekajugo (1980) -- Mixed Media

Artist Profile

Collin Sekajugo is a Mixed Media Artist

Born in Masaka, Uganda on October 14th 1980, Collin Sekajugo started practicing art at a young age while he attended primary school. And during his high school days while living in Nairobi he got acquainted with contemporary art that was displayed on the streets and in galleries.

Whereas Sekajugo was not able to attend the school of art, he was able to meet different professional artists in Nairobi who encouraged him to stick to his pursuit of art as a career.

Today Collin Sekajugo is on mission of “Using Art to Change Lives”. Over the last three years these words have become more than a credo for the self taught artist, who has dedicated himself to founding Ivuka Arts Kigali: an ambitious project that aims to develop Rwanda’s contemporary art by honing the skills of promising young artists and providing a platform for their exposure both locally and internationally.

A painter by profession, Sekajugo’s own work explores how light, shadow, color and texture interacts to make his subject rise “off the canvas”.

His artwork holds the distinction of being displayed in various public and corporate collections, and is featured both at Meredith Laing Studios (Bel Air, California) and the prestigious Gallery Watatu (Nairobi, Kenya). Sekajugo credits a large part of his success to the opportunities he has had to work alongside other professional artists; and now that he has successfully “come of age” in the art world, he is helping others do the same.

Sekajugo has travelled extensively in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America where he has exhibited his work at different showcases, while he pursues his dream of becoming an internationally recognized artist.

Exhibitions

Solo Shows

2010; AS RWANDA TURNS, Goethe Institut, Kigali (Rwanda)

2009 ; Musicals, Closer Look, Chicago (USA)

2005 ; INNER QUALITIES, Design Agenda Gallery, Kampala (Uganda)

2005 ; MY BLACK AND WHITE PAGES, Novotel Umubano, Kigali (Rwanda)

2004 ; FACE AFRICA, Treasures and Crafts, Kigali (Rwanda)

2004 ; RENAISSANCE, Novotel Umubano, Kigali (Rwanda)

Group Shows

2010 ; Dialogue Among Civilizations, Durban Art Gallery, Durban (South Africa)

2010 ; Ivuka Arts Show, US Embassy Kigali, (Rwanda)

2005 ; UBUMANZI, Kigali City Rond Point, Kigali (Rwanda)

2005 ; IZUBA, American Embassy, Kigali (Rwanda)

2005 ; UGANDA YOUNG ARTISTS ANNUAL SHOW, National Gallery, Kampala (Uganda)

2005 ; WESM ART FESTIVAL, Lilongwe (Malawi)

Workshops

Art Festival at Kabira International School – Kampala (Uganda) – 2007

PACA Maps – Nairobi (Kenya), Kampala (Uganda) and Dar-Es-Salaam (Tanzania) – 2005

Insaka International Artists Workshops – Lusaka (Zambia) – 2005

Art Azimuts Francophone – Kigali (Rwanda) – 2005

Art Azimuts Francophone – Kigali (Rwanda) – 2003

What am up to now

We tend to become constrained to our heritage and cultural backgrounds but I think that when culture dictates a lot in our day to day lives, we eventually lose our moral values as subjected to the world we live in today.

What does culture mean to you or me? And who has the best culture?

I have learned to believe that Ethnocentrism has always been the worst problem on the soils of all humanity since the genesis of man.

This has dismantled societies and built up new cultures. Some of us have lost our cultural heritage and assimilated new cultures and others are born in a mixture of cultures hence losing cultural identity. Who is to blame? It’s the modern world, the Neo-global Change.

Even though I am born of men and women whose blood is rooted to the reaches of the upper Nile or Areas of Ancient Ethiopia and the Cameroon Forests mixed, my work has less to do with my ancestry or cultural heritage. It’s about my surroundings, experiences and emotions.

I have focused so much on Change in Society because it is rapid and solid.

My art is about social conscience and healing. Raising awareness for issues concerning our breaking societies: from discrimination to segregation, from environmental change to isolation and from disintegration to integration. Through my work I am developing concepts on the elements that build or destroy our societies.

And the message that is portrayed in my artwork is a demonstration for social transformation.

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