Sane Wadu

born 1954 as W. N. Mbugua in Nyathuna, Kenya

lives and works as a painter since 1983 in Naivasha, Kenya

One of the most important artist of expressionism in East Africa

Exhibited wordwide, e.g. in the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York

Founded in 1991 with young artists and autodidacts the „Ngecha Artists Association“ in Nairobi, beginning with community paintings

Since the nineties Wadu started the Ngecha gallery in Naivasha