Nadia Wamunyu (1993), is a contemporary visual artist and gallerist living and working in Nairobi, Kenya.

She started drawing at the age of three, greatly supported by her parents, who bought her watercolours and brushes.

At the age of five, she partially lost her ability to hear after a medical error, the doctor administered a heavy dose of antibiotics. Her father, who has been her biggest supporter and inspiration, encouraged her to be creative in different ways immediately after this unfortunate incident.

Her art career officially started at GoDown Art Centre while in high school under the tutelage of famous Kenyan painter Patrick Mukabi.

Most of her earlier works were charcoal drawings and oil paintings depicting random people, faces, figures and later scenes of Lamu town, a small magical town on Lamu Island, a destination she never stopped visiting since she was young.

Her works have been exhibited both locally and internationally: GoDown Art Centre, Village Market, Alliance Francaise, Kuona Artists Collective, US Embassy, British Council, Baitil Aman in Shela, Lamu Fort, Nairobi Museum, Polka Dot Art Gallery, Circle Art Gallery, Absa Gallery in South Africa, Kerry Packer Civic Gallery in South Australia and many more.

Nadia participated in the Manjano Art Competition and Exhibition a prestigious annual art competition and exhibition by GoDown Art Centre and won first prize in the student category in 2013 and third prize in the artist category in 2020; She participated in the Lamu Painters Festival in 2015 & 2017.

She is currently a member of Kobo Trust Artists studio aka Seven Artists along Riara Road and spends some days at their new gallery in South C.