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OUR AWARDS: Youth Development NPO of the Year 2024/25 I Most Visionary Organisation 2024 - Innovation in Education Excellence I Most Innovative Learning Organisation 2020
MASK has an ever-expanding programme of exhibitions, talks and seminars. Partnering with prestigious institutions, we offer fantastic opportunities for our emerging artists.
@ X 14 Cavendish, group show, Doyle Wham Gallery, London, August 2021. Review in On Art
New Faces in Contemporary African Portraiture, Doyle Wham Gallery, London, October 2020. Review in The Guardian (UK)
Murky Waters, Doyle Wham Gallery, London, November — December 2020. Review in Contemporary And (C&)
Visual Tapestry, online group show, Afrikan Gallery and The Viewing Room, July — August 2020. Review in The Star (Kenya)
MASK Awards 2018: Early 21 century young African artists, Saatchi Gallery, London, December 2018 — January 2019. More
MASK 5-Year Retrospective 'All Art Should be Social Art', Turner Contemporary, Margate, May — June 2018. More
Every Day is a New Day, MASK was featured alongside renowned artists Phyllida Barlow and Michael Armitage at Turner Contemporary, Margate, May — September 2017. Opened by Lemn Sissay. More
MASK Awards 2017 exhibition of digital prints in collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery's Education Department, Saatchi Gallery, London, November — December 2017. More
Transformation/Mabadiliko: A groundbreaking multimedia exhibition in collaboration with UCA, shifting the focus from static art to interactive, immersive learning experiences, Zandra Rhodes Gallery, Rochester, March–April 2016. More
MASK Awards 2016 multimedia installation in collaboration with University for the Creative Arts, Saatchi Gallery, London, January 2017. More
Best of MASK Awards 2015, Saatchi Gallery, London, 14 December 2015 — 7 January 2016. Co-curated with UCA and opened by The Kenyan High Commission in London. More
Milestone 'solo' exhibition Best of MASK Awards 2015 at the renowned public art gallery Turner Contemporary, Margate, April — May 2016. More
MASK society, UCA Students' Union, Roehampton, 2016. More
Best of MASK Awards 2014, Saatchi Gallery, London, September—November 2014. Opened by MASK's Patron Ibrahim El-Salahi: "MASK is giving young Africans their humanity back." More
Best of MASK Awards 2014, Royal Over-Seas League, London, January — March 2015. Opened by the Kenyan High Commission and Director of the Royal Over-Seas League. More
What Makes Me Proud About Kenya, Royal Overseas League, London, December 2013 — January 2014. Opened by the Founder of 1:54 African Art Fair. More
Best of MASK Awards 2013, Royal Over-Seas League, December 2013 — January 2014. Opened by the Kenyan High Commission and the Founder of 1:54. More
Best of MASK Awards 2013, Saatchi Gallery, London, September—October 2013. Opened by the renowned Michael Craig-Martin and Education Director at the Saatchi Gallery. Visited by 87,000 visitors. More
MASK at Saatchi-Sunday Telegraph School Prize, and its first exhibition at Saatchi Gallery, February — March 2011. More
Art Education in Kenya seminar, Brunei Gallery, London, 2011. More
MASK, Stephenson & Harwood LLP, London, 2009
MASK at Michael Joseph Art Center, Nairobi. Opened by the Kenyan government and dignitaries:
Workshops at Nairobi University, Nairobi, 2014. More
MASK Award 2014, Nairobi University, Nairobi, May 2014. More
Workshop KEPSA, Nairobi, 2014. More
MASK Awards inaugural exhibition, Nairobi National Museum, Nairobi, June — July 2013. Opened by the British High Commissioner. More
Art camp show, Kenyan Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Nairobi, 2011. More
MASK retrospective, RAMOMA, Nairobi, August — September 2010. More
One Year After the Conflict, Russian Embassy, Nairobi, 2008, and UNESCO HQ, Paris, 2009. Art catalogue was presented to the Kenyan Ministry of Education. More
MASK at West Laikipia Education Zone conference, Sipili, Norther Kenya, 2008.
MASK at UNESCO IIEP, October 2012. More
MASK children’s peace-themed artworks, Kenyan Embassy, Paris, January — February 2010. More
MASK at UNESCO KNC, Seoul, 2014. More
MASK at US Library of Congress, April 2013 and June 2014. More
Nature of creativity, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Institution, The National Mall, Washington, DC, June 2014. More
MASK at the White House, followed by Obama's letter, 2013. More
Engaging Creativity for Human Development, a talk at School of Education, George Washington University, Washington DC, 2013. More
Creativity Education in Africa, exhibition-seminar, Woodrow Wilson Center, December 2011.
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