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2022

Śūnyatā Studios Bali established and built

2019 - 2021

Śūnyatā Sri Lanka Art refuge/residency established and built

2018

Dubai - Commission mural for the UAE cultural development

LA- GREENPEACE commission mural

Frezzano Sicily,- Italy Frame IT festival

Sapri Italy - Commission Mural

Paxos Greece- Paxos contemporary art festival

Satka Russia - Commission mural

Seattle - Sodo Track public art festival

Vukover Croatia - Public art festival

Lisbon Portugal -Underdogs gallery artist residency

2017

Scholarship to attend the Los Angeles academy of figurative art with a further grant awarded by the RVCA artist network program

Nuart festival - Stavanger Norway

UPEA Art festival - Helsinki Finland

Noa Noa group exhibition - Martinas gallery Italy

Crystal Ship public art festival - Oostende Belgium

Edit art festival - Klaipeda Lithuania

Live painting for Venice family clinic art auction - Google HQ Venice , CA

LAXDTW - Group exhibition Inner-state Gallery Detroit USA

Urban Nation Museum public mural commission - Berlin Germany

Noa Noa art residency - Bali

Public mural commission - Penang Malaysia

2016

Art4writes - Amnesty international group exhibition.Commissioned to paint an artwork raising attention for Edward Snowden's human rights case.

BONOBO - Commission for album launch

Museum group show - Entry Point: Exploring The New Contemporary Movement - Fullerton Museum Center California , Curated by Thinkspace Gallery

Group exhibition - One Year Anniversary -Athen B Gallery Oakland, USA

United Artists mural project - Kiev, Ukrain

Memorie Urbane mural festival - Gaeta, Italy

Notacrime Campaign mural project - New York, USA

WAC Big Walls: Columbia College mural project - Chicago, USA

DO ART Foundation mural commission - Los Angeles, USA

Athen B gallery x RVCA mural project - Oakland, USA

Museum group show - Exploring The New Contemporary Movement Pow Wow - Honolulu Museum of Art Hawaii, Curated by Thinkspace Gallery

Pow Wow Hawaii mural festival - Honolulu, Hawaii

2015

La Zona Residency - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Artesano Mural festival - Nagua, Dominican Republic

Amnesty international - Art4writes exhibition and mural - New Orleans, USA

Walk & Talk public art festival – Azores, Portugal

Matharan Green art festival – Mumbai, India

Solo Exhibition: THE ABSTRACT AND THE ABSOLUTE, Dangerfork Gallery - Melbourne, Australia

Everfresh artist residency - Melbourne, Australia

Solo Exhibition: THE NATURE OF OUR PRESENCE, Worldart Gallery - Cape Town, South Africa

2014

FESTIVAl D ART URBAIN ANTANANARIVO - Antananarivo, Madagascar

Nelson Mandela tribute mural commission – Johannesburg, South Africa

Bronze Age, group exhibition – Cape Town, South Africa

Peace Revolution artist meditation residency - Bangkok, Thailand

Commission artwork for Google

2013

WWF Earth Hour, mural commission – Cape Town / Johannesburg

Global Power Shift conference, mural commission – Istanbul, Turkey

Muralist festival, public art festival – Istanbul, Turkey

Kolor Kathmandu public art festival – Kathmandu, Nepal

Wall Therapy, public art festival – Rochester NY, USA

The Philadelphia Mural Art Program, mural commission – Philadelphia, USA

Living Walls, public art festival – Atlanta, USA

Kurema, Kureba, Kwiga, mural project – Kigali, Rwanda

Do Art Foundation ‘Urban Art’, Group exhibition – LA, USA

2012

Open Walls, public art festival – Baltimore, USA

Maboneng Township Experience public art project – Gugulethu Cape Town, South Africa

Acrylic Walls, mural project – Johannesburg / Cape Town, South Africa

A WORD OF ART gallery, ‘Ways of seeing’ exhibition – Cape Town, South Africa

2011

Coachella Music Festival live painting – LA, USA

I ART SA – Johannesburg / Cape Town, South Africa

Wall Therapy, public art festival - Rochester NY, USA

Ritual Gallery, group exhibition – NY, USA

Happy Studios, residency – Portland Oregon

Living Walls, public art festival – Atlanta, USA

World Art Gallery “Urban Aesthetic” exhibition with Paul Senyol – Cape Town, South Africa

Wide Open Walls, mural project – The Gambia

 

Śūnyatā Studios: Seseh Bali / Nilwella Sri Lanka