Longinos Nagila is a young experimental multi-media visual artist living and working in Nairobi. Primarily focusing on video art and the exploration of digital imagery, Longinos’ work is influenced by a deep love of early cinema and black and white photography, which he blends with paint and transferred images on paper and canvas.
Longinos Nagila was born in Kenya in 1986. Prior to studying at the Bururu Institute of Fine Arts, Kenya, Nagila studied 2D and 3D animation. After Bururu, the artist studied documentary and cinema at the Apulia Film Commission in Bari, Italy. He held his first solo exhibition in Lecce, Italy in 2009, and has since continued to exhibit regularly locally and abroad. Nagila lives and works in Nairobi, Kenya as a member of the Kuona Artist Collective. Nagila has been selected from a large pool of artists from Africa as one of only six residents of Art Dubai for 2020