Sunny Dolat
Curator & Creative Director, The Nest Collective
The multi-hyphenate Kenyan was a key member of the curatorial team behind the V&A Museum’s "Africa Fashion" exhibition and is a partner at the Heva Fund.
Sunny Dolat is a fashion curator, creative director and producer of international arts and culture projects. The multi-hyphenate Kenyan was a key member of the curatorial team behind the landmark “Africa Fashion” exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), held between 2022-2023 in London, led by Dr Christine Checinska. He is also a partner at Heva Fund, a Nairobi-based finance and business support facility that has delivered direct investment of over $10 million to over 50 creative industry enterprises across several countries, predominantly in the East Africa region.
With a background in styling and photography, Dolat co-founded the Nest Collective, a creative and intellectual group working in an interdisciplinary manner across film, music, fashion, the visual arts and literature, in 2012 in Nairobi, Kenya, where he is based. In 2016, he authored "Not African Enough," a thought-provoking book critiquing the stereotypes that have shaped perceptions of African fashion beyond the continent. Dolat was part of the curatorial team of the 2024 State of Fashion exhibition, "Ties That Bind." This decentralised edition unfolds across Arnhem, Nairobi, Bengaluru and São Paulo. "Ties that Bind" explores the complexities of tradition, the power of indigenous knowledge and the political potential of clothing.
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