Richard Kimathi studied graphics in the Creative Art Centre in Nairobi. He lives and works in his studio on Malaa, southeast of Nairobi.
Kimathi is always exploring and experimenting. He has a unique expression, camouflaging an empathetic portrayal of the circumstances of the common Kenyan in caricature-like reductionism: the suffering, privately worn and stoically borne, as if simply the price of life. Invisible to the sleepy eye, this sensitivity permeates the entire body of his work.
He exhibits regularly at One Off Contemporary Art Gallery and has shown at Heong Gallery, Cambridge, UK in 2017; The Gallery of African Art (GAFRA) on Cork Street in London in 2014; The Belgium Embassy Residence in Nairobi in 2013 and at Gazzambo Gallery in Madrid, Spain in 2010. He represented Kenya at the Dakar Art Biennale in Senegal in 2006 and has exhibited in Germany, Amsterdam, Italy, Austria and the USA.
Kimathi is always exploring and experimenting. He has a unique expression, camouflaging an empathetic portrayal of the circumstances of the common Kenyan in caricature-like reductionism: the suffering, privately worn and stoically borne, as if simply the price of life. Invisible to the sleepy eye, this sensitivity permeates the entire body of his work.
He exhibits regularly at One Off Contemporary Art Gallery and has shown at Heong Gallery, Cambridge, UK in 2017; The Gallery of African Art (GAFRA) on Cork Street in London in 2014; The Belgium Embassy Residence in Nairobi in 2013 and at Gazzambo Gallery in Madrid, Spain in 2010. He represented Kenya at the Dakar Art Biennale in Senegal in 2006 and has exhibited in Germany, Amsterdam, Italy, Austria and the USA.