Richard Onyango Fine Artist Portfolio

Richard Onyango (1960) -- Fine Art

Artist Profile

Richard Onyango is a Fine Artist.

Richard Onyango

For the first thirty years of his life, Richard Onyango supported himself through a remarkable range of occupations-sign-painter, bus-driver, woodcarver, carpenter, fashion designer, furniture maker, farmer, animal trainer...

His father worked for the Tana River Irrigation Scheme, and Onyango became fascinated with the signs of industrial development in the African landscape: trucks, tractors, bulldozers, planes, etc.

As a child he recorded such impressions in a series of sketches he called “photo pictures” of “whatever my eye could see.” He has explained further, “To keep things properly in mind I had to draw them since I didn’t have a camera to record what I would like to put in memory.”

Exhibitions

2005: Grimaldi Forum – Monaco(Monte Carlo France)

2006: Biennale Di Malindi (Kenya)

2006/07: 100% Africa – Guggenheim Bilbao Spain

2004: Mai d' Africa Ca ai Fra Milano Italy

2004: Casino Malindi (Kenya)

2005: Museum of Fine Arts Houston Texas, U.S.A (MFA,H)

2003: Ramoma Art Gallery Nairobi, Kenya

2003: Serena Block Hotels Nairobi, Kenya

2003: The Alliance Francaise (Kenya cultural week in Paris June 2003)

2003: Biennale di Venezia, 50th International Art Exhibition Venice Italy

2002: Club Gerald Holiday Mayungu Malindi, Kenya.

1999: MAMCO, Ginevra, Svizzera (personale)

1999: Fabbrica Eos, Milano, Italia (personale)

1999: Fondazione Mudima, Milano, Italia

1999: Franco Cancelliere ArteContemporanea, Messina, Italia ( personale)

1998: "Africa Nera, Cuore Rosso", museo di Rosignano Marittimo, Italia

1997: Sarenco and the Malindi Connection, VAC, Ventabren, Francia

1996: Afrika, Haus der Kunst, Berlino, Ger mania

1996: Sarenco and the Malindi Connection (1986 - 1996), Black Gallery, Verona, Italia

1996: Sarenco and the Malindi Connection, Stadttheater, Furth Germania

1996: Collezione Klein-Gunk, Pyramide, Furth, Germania

1995: Zeirgenossische Afrikanische Kunt, Furth. Germania

1995: Seven Stories about African Art, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Londan, Inghilterra

1994: Salle Privee Art Gallery, Malindi, Kenya (personale)

1993: Malindi Art Gallar y, Malindi, Kenya (personale)

1993: Salle Provee' Casino Malindi, Kenya (personale)

1993: Galleria Totem - il Canale, Venezia, Italy (per sonale)

1993: "Artisti stranien in Italia", Rocca di Umbertide, Italia

1993: "Afrikanissimo", Sparkasse and Marktplatz, Werne, Germania (personale)

1992: "TER" galleries d'Arte Contemporanea, Termoli, Italy (invitato da Achille Bonito Oliver)

1992: National Museum, Nair obi, Kenya ( personale)

1992: Fondazione Mudima, Milano, Italia (personale)

1992: Domus Jani, Jllasi, Italia (personale)

1992: Salvatore Ala Gallary, New York, USA (personale)

1991: Artificio & Artefatto Gallery, Malindi, Kenya (personale)

1991: White Elephant Sea Gallery, Malindi, Kenya (personale)

1991: Wild Side Shop, Malindi, Kenya (per sonale)

1991: Malindi Art Gallery, Malindi, Kenya (personale)