Featured Artist Avni Shah(Kenya)
Avni Shah is a Kenyan based artist who has honed her skills to capture the emerging trends in the art communities. She has advanced her paintings to fit the modern contemporary style of constructing art. Through explorations in contemporary art, the artist has found a powerful medium for new perception, expression, and an awakening of new consciousness.
These works are deeply influenced by local urban scenes which reflect the complexities and contradictions of the modern world, nature, and abstraction. From the mundane to the profound, she seeks to capture the essence of what it means to be human, and to provoke thought and dialogue through her art.
The artist’s creative process is highly intuitive and experimental, drawing from a range of media, techniques, textures, and multimedia to create unique and dynamic compositions. She has swiftly made a name for herself in the modern art world. The idea of not controlling the surface and the painting having a say in it was a feeling of total liberation. She is constantly challenging herself to push the boundaries of what is possible with each configuration, and to embrace the unknown and unexpected in her work. Every day comes with a promise of creating art in a different form. This illustrations of expressive style of painting have allowed the artist to have a stronger voice in what is called “Art of Today”.
EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Run for Dear Life’ featured musically by Margin Alexander Manhattan, New York
2024 “Featured On Landing Page Of @ ART VISTA-1”
2023 “’Share A Meal’ art auction By U.N. (W.F.P.) program
2023 Featured in Kenya Arts Review
2023 Featured in Business Daily Africa by Margaretta wa Gacheru
2023 “Beyond the Canvas” 100 Painting show at Village Market
2023 “Kenya Arts Diary” Featured
2023 “Mosaic and Glass Magazine” Featured U.K.
2022 “Affordable Art Show” Kenya Museum Society
2021 “Anima” – Kenya Society for Protection and Care {KSPCA}
2020 “Amazing Paintings with stories by an E.A. Artist” Online Exhibition Go Places Digital
2020 “Artist Sunday” Online Exhibition
2020 “East African Coast” United Nations Offices Nairobi
2019 “Shifting Panoramas” Village Market
2019 “Affordable Art Show” Kenya Museum Society
2019 “Friends of the Arts” {FOTA} Exhibition” International School of Kenya
2018 “Pop Up Exhibition” Lord Erroll
2012 “Judge at “Childrens Art of The World” National Museums of Kenya
2006 “Broken Tile Mosaics” Kenyatta National Hospital.
2005 “Broken Tile Mosaics” Addenbrook’s Hospital Cambridge, U.K.
2003 “Broken Tile Mosaics” Mathare Mental Rehabilitation Centre.
2003 “Expressions of The Wild” East African Wildlife Society Charity.
2002/3 Written Articles on Travel and Art for “Go Places” and “Having Fun” Magazines
2002 “International Travel Berlin Show {ITB}” Kenyan Stand Germany
2002 “Scenes of Kenya” Voyager Beach Hotel
2001 “Expressions of the Kenyan Coast” African Week Sundern, Germany
1989 “Opening Doors to Lamu” Sarang Art Gallery
1984 “Mombasa Old Town” Gallery Watatu
