Onyis MARTIN Kenya, b. 1987

SHOWS & FAIRS

2025
- “Sitges Recicl’Art” – OOA GALLERY – Barcelona, Spain
- “Visitas inesperadas” – OOA GALLERY – Fundación Palau Caldes d’Estrac – Barcelona, Spain

2024
- “Talking Walls” – OOA GALLERY – Barcelona, Spain
- “In the beginning” – African Art Trust Gallery – Nairobi, Kenya 

2022
- Diálogos Residency & Group Show – Nairobi, Kenya

- Matza Edgelands Workshop – Artistic Residency & Group show – Medellin, Colombia
- “1-54 Art Fair London” – 50 Golborne – London, UK
- “Africa rises in Fall”- OOA GALLERY – London, UK 
- “All men are born equal” – OOA GALLERY – Barcelona, Spain

2021
- "Traversions of Time and Space" - Ujamaa Arts - Johannesburg , South Africa
- "Smoking Gun: New World Order" - Eclectica Contemporary - Cape Town, South Africa
"TEXTURES SUMMER GROUP SHOW" -  Out of Africa Gallery – Barcelona, Spain
- "No Man's land" - Art-Z Gallery - Paris, France

2020

- "Nairobi, Altered States" - Circle Art Gallery - Nairobi, Kenya
- "DIALOGUES, techniques on paper" -  Afikaris - Paris, France
- "Winter Group Show 2020" - Out of Africa Gallery – Barcelona, Spain

2019

- Nairobi, here we Art – OOA Gallery – Barcelona, Spain
- Still here tomorrow to high five you yesterday - Zeitz Museum – Cape Town, South Africa
- African Stories, The Hourglass Gallery - Lagos, NG

2018
- A better world through creativity - Group exhibition - Kerry Parker Civic Gallery - Adelaide, South Australia.
- Performances of memory - Absa Gallery - Johannesburg, South Africa
- African metropolis - Maxxii MUSEUM - Simone Njami, Curator

2017
- Be-com-ing - Redhill Gallery – Nairobi, Kenya
- Talking walls - Kerry Parker Civic Gallery - Adelaide, South Australia
- Tomorrows/today - Cape Town Art Fair - Cape Town, South Africa
- Salon Zurcher - Zurcher Gallery - New York, USA
- Proximity to power - Circle Art Gallery - Nairobi, Kenya

2016
- Freedom / flight / refuge - Circle Art Gallery – Nairobi, Kenya
- 1:54 Art Fair - Somerset House – London, England
- In-conversations - The Lab – Nairobi, Kenya
- Here and Here - Asni Gallery - Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
- What can art do - Shift Eye Gallery - Nairobi, Kenya

2015
- Taiwan Inter’Art Fair - Taipei, Taiwan

2014
- Graduation – Talisman – Nairobi, Kenya
- 3rd side of the coin – Que-pasa – Nairobi, Kenya

2013
- Utopia Art Cabinet – Nairobi, Kenya   

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS

2022

MATZA Edgelands Residency and Workshop "Commun grounds" with Bodega Confama Institute, Medellin, Colombia. 

2017
- The bag factory residency - Johannesburg, South Africa
- 1st Merit award - Barclays L’aterlia Competition

2016
- Asiko Art School - Workshop and residency - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Residency at The Factory (Nicholas Locsdale) - Lamu, Kenya
- 5th Mediation Biennale - Pozna, Poland
- Ostrale - Error X - Germany

2015
- Kuona Trust Artist in residence – Nairobi, Kenya

2014
- Anidan Artist Residency and Art Workshop – Lamu, Kenya

2013
- Art workshop at Mukuru Art and Craft – Nairobi, Kenya

2012
- Fire and water ceremony – Laikipia, Kenya 

EDUCATION

2013
- Neuro Linguistic Programming and Family Constellation

2010
- Mukuru Art and Craft – Nairobi, Kenya

2006
- Aquinas High School – Nairobi, Kenya