From Milk cans to Dinosaur-sized Wildlife Sculptures and a Gallery in the middle of Nairobi

Monica Ray
Art Museums of the World
9 min readMar 18, 2023

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Hi Kioko, thank you for having us! We’re sitting here in the wonderful open space of your gallery in Nairobi today — tell us your story:

I’m Kioko Mwitiki. I’m an artist and sculptor, I went through formal art school, have a degree in fine art, from a local university here and even ended up teaching art. I grew up in the Rift Valley, the Southern part of Kenya where there is a lot of wildlife and my childhood really shaped my vision of what art is and where to find…

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Monica Ray
Art Museums of the World

Somewhere between design, art and tech. Writing about building design-driven UX teams. Interviewing creators, curators and collectors in the art world.