Rodney Kiggundu

Kiggundu is a 29yr old painter and mural artist born, raised and currently based in Kampala Uganda. Kiggundu works majorly with acrylic paint to develop concepts primarily from a black background. His works are characterized with a lot of color, patterns often juxtaposed with different elements he paints entirely form dark background to an entirely colourfilled composition. His technique is highly inspired and influenced by the Araism technique done in Nigeria and taught to him by a Nigerian artist friend of his. Kiggundu studied his BFA from Makerere University Margaret Trowel School of Industrial and Fine Arts Kampala Uganda and runs an art studio in Ndejje, Kanyanya.

He has participated in group exhibitions like East African Visual Art Connect Exhibition 2016, Residencies for example Global Arts Festival and Residency Gujarat India, Gandhi Art Camp in Saputara India 2019, Seyna Art Gallery Residency in Entebbe, Namulanda 2021 were he had his first duo show themed “Mindfulness” that highlighted the need to speak about and be mindful of our mental health and its prevalence in our communities.

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