Collin Sekajugo (b. 1980, Masaka, Uganda) is a Ugandan artist whose mixed Ugandan and Rwandan heritage informs his exploration of identity, belonging and social inequality. Working across painting, photography and collage, he questions how ethnicity, class and popular imagery shape the way we perceive ourselves and others. His international gallery history includes exhibitions with Gallery 1957 in London and joining the roster of Blum & Poe in 2022. Artist biography, Blum & Poe announcement.

Collage is central to Sekajugo’s practice. He combines locally sourced materials including polypropylene sacks, denim, discarded paper and product labels with painted colour and sweeping, hand-drawn outlines. These familiar materials carry traces of everyday life, connecting his subjects to the communities and consumer culture around them. Their reuse also introduces questions of sustainability and value: what society discards, what it preserves, and whose experiences it recognises. In his works incorporating stock photography, he reshapes commercial imagery to challenge racial stereotypes and the assumptions embedded in supposedly universal images. Materials and practice.

In 2022, Sekajugo represented Uganda alongside Acaye Kerunen in the country’s first national pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Their exhibition, Radiance: They Dream in Time, received a Special Mention for National Participation. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., and the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, Wisconsin. Venice Biennale, Museum collections.

His commitment to community extends beyond his own artworks. As founder of Ivuka Arts in Kigali and the Weaver Bird arts community in Masaka, Sekajugo has created spaces for artists to develop, collaborate and reach new audiences putting his belief in art’s capacity for social change into practice. Community initiatives.