Lemek Sompoika

Currently working from the Kobo Trust Studios in Nairobi, I am curious about the public spaces and the dynamics of human conduct, as there remains unanswered questions about actions and observable emotions associated with cultures, particular societies, as well as the human race as a whole.
Using charcoal, pastel, graphite, ink, watercolour, and sometimes newsprint, my work represents these common spaces, using human figures and ideas on truth as I have observed and experienced, mostly speaking to issues of traditions and culture in the society.

2015, Certificate in Print-making, workshop, Kuona Trust Art Centre
2006, Certificate in Drawing and Painting, Creative Art College

Art Fairs
2019 AKAA Fair, Paris, France.

Biennales
2016, Ostrale Biennale for Contemporary Art, Dresden, Germany
2016, ‘Fundamental’, Mediations Biennale Poznan, Poznan, Poland

Solo Exhibitions
2021, 'Duru za kuaminika', Alliançe Française, Nairobi, Kenya.
2021, 'Abstract Patterns', Redhill Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya.

Group Exhibitions
2022, 'Walking the edge', Afriart Gallery, Kampala, Uganda.
2021, 'No man's land', Gallery Art-Z, Paris, France.
2019, 'African Stories', Hourglass Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria.
2019, ‘Lucid Dreams’, CircleArt Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya.
2018, ’Conflicts in the Narrative’, GravitArt Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya.
2018, Sanaa Exhibition, Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Adelaide, Australia.
2017, ‘Young Guns’, Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya.
2016, L’Atelier Exhibition, Absa Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2015, ‘The Paper II’, Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi.
2014, ‘The Paper Show’, Shift Eye Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya.