Biography
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. The exhibition explored the global impact of the diverse fashion scenes found across the African continent, spanning designers and creatives from the mid-20th century to today. 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 has also served as the Kenya head of the textile and apparel division of the SheTrades Commonwealth programme, an International Trade Center initiative to increase economic growth and job creation for women-owned businesses.