Joseph Bertiers

{{Short description|Kenyan painter and sculptor}}

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| name = Joseph Mbatia Bertiers

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| caption = Joseph Bertiers, in front of his own artwork, 2016

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1963}}

| birth_place = Kenya

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| nationality = Kenya

| occupation = Painter

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Joseph Mbatia Bertiers (born 1963) is a Kenyan painter and sculptor.{{Cite book |last=Bertiers |first=Joseph |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39200714 |title=Dateline Kenya : the media paintings of Joseph Bertiers |date= |publisher=Smart Art Press |others=Pilar Perez, Track Gallery and Mainspace |year=1998 |isbn=1-889195-20-0 |location=Santa Monica, CA |oclc=39200714}} He is best known for his imaginative depictions of political history and life-size scrap metal sculptures.{{cite web |last1=WA GACHERU |first1=MARGARETTA |title=‘Bertiers’ chronicles Kenya's post-independence events |url=https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/lifestyle/art/-bertiers-chronicles-kenya-s-post-independence-events-3887790 |access-date=31 July 2022 |website=Business Daily Africa}}

In 2006, Bertiers was selected to participate in Dak’Art and won first prize at a national competition for contemporary art organized by Alliance Française and the Goethe-Institut in Nairobi.{{Cite journal |last=Hughes |first=Henry Meyric |date=2006 |title=Agreements, Allusions, and Constructive Misunderstandings |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20447793 |journal=African Arts |volume=39 |issue=4 |pages=58–59 |issn=0001-9933}} His artwork has been exhibited across Africa, Europe, and North America.{{cite web |last1=Perrée |first1=Rob |title=Joseph Bertiers, Kenya |url=https://africanah.org/joseph-bertiers-kenya/ |website=Africanah.org |publisher=Africanah |access-date=31 July 2022}}