ARTIST

Hi, I'm Martin Senkubuge

Kampala, Uganda

Martin Senkubuge is a Visual Artist, Curator, Researcher, and Creative Entrepreneur based in Kampala, with work held in private and institutional collections across East Africa, Europe, and the United States. His multidisciplinary practice, centered on large-scale charcoal drawing, examines identity, embodiment, cultural heritage, and inclusion. Hi...

Creative Statement

My work examines identity as something lived before it is named - shaped by inheritance, memory, belief, and the quiet injuries we carry beneath the surface of the skin. I am interested in how societies assign value, visibility, and belonging, and how the body becomes a site where these forces are negotiated, resisted, or absorbed. Vitiligo appea...

Biography

Martin Senkubuge (b. 1996) is a Ugandan visual artist, curator, researcher, and creative entrepreneur based in Kampala. His multidisciplinary practice - centered on large-scale charcoal drawing - examines identity, cultural heritage, embodiment, and inclusion, with a sustained focus on challenging stigma surrounding vitiligo and other forms of soci...

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Education

The Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts, Makerere University, Kampala, UGANDA
UNCC-Uganda National Cultural Centre, Kampala, UGANDA
Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, ITALY

Recognitions/Residency

Kuonyesha Art Fund, Civ Fund, Kampala UGANDA. (Partner)
Tilga Art Fund 2023, United States of America, USA (Recipient)
Follow on Fund, British Council, Kampala, UGANDA. (Recipient)
Executive Program; ITACA/ CREA, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, ITALY (Participant)

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