Chiru Mondo Murage (Weinstein) is a Kenyan American abstract artist based in New York City. Using acrylic and oil pastel as her primary media, she builds layered, restless compositions where color and form collide. Her works are containers for self exploration and its associated emotions — unruly, fluid and alive — reflecting the tension between control and release.

Rooted in a lifelong relationship with art from childhood watercolor classes to illustrating for The Harvard Lampoon, Chiru’s current practice was prompted by a creative resurgence. After a long hiatus, she found a new home in abstraction, which offers a raw, instinctive language for personal discovery.

Chiru is currently developing her first project, I Swear I Come Alive in Summer, a body of work that captures the feverish longing, impermanence, and lightness of that fleeting season.

Welcome to her world; hope you stay a while.