Simon Rieber

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Simon Rieber
Born Simon Cosmas
1994/05/25
Dar es Salaam Tanzania
Nationality Tanzanian
Education University of Dar es Salaam
Alma mater Graduate
Occupation Visual artist
Author
Animator
Years active since 2018
Height 1.70 m


Simon Cosmas Michael, known professionally as Simon Rieber, is an Tanzanian visual artist, animator and author who uses the fields of folk art. He first gained popularity as an artist on Instagram. He is the winner of the Umoja Prize for Contemporary Tanzanian Artist in 2020. He has held several exhibitions in Tanzania and East Africa, building a good position as an emerging Tanzanian artist in the East African art scene.

He is a founder and C.E.O of SR Media Services Tanzania a company helping budding artists, entrepreneurs and creators to promote their works online providing press release services.

Works

2018: Working for the Time, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea 2019: UFO Gallery, Barkeley, California 2019: Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco 2021: Project 30: Look At Me, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Awards

In 2020: Rieber won the Umoja Prize for Contemporary Tanzanian Artist as the best painter of the year.

Personal Life

Born 25 May 1994 in Dar es salaam, Tanzania and spent his early life in Dar es salaam and later on took his bachelor's degree of Computer Science at University of Dar es Salaam.

Career

After graduating from Computer Science in 2011, Rieber was involved in a small business and later decided to study painting online and began publishing his original works online in 2018, and he gained great popularity through social media and inspire other artists. He also focus more on entrepreneurship to inspiring people to become self-reliant and to lift themselves out of poverty. He has been one of the young people who have been able to use social media to bring about changes and uplift others.

Business

He is a Founded of PR agency company SR Media Services Tanzania an company that is helping budding artists, entrepreneurs and creators to promote their works online providing press release services and experts in the knowledge panels in all search engines.

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