Born 1974 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa
2015 Master of Fine Art (Distinction), Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town.
2009 Photography at Vega (The brand communication school), Cape Town, South Africa
2000 Bachelor of Art in Graphic Design and Visual Communication at the” Academie des Beaux Arts”, (Academy of fine Arts) Kinshasa/DRC
1994 State Diploma in Art (Sculpture Major) at “L’Institut des Beaux- Arts”, Kinshasa/DRC
2016 Luxembourg Art Prize (Hervé Lancelin Gallery)
2013 Between the Lines (Fellowship, Michaelis School of Art and Braunschweig School of Art, South Africa/Germany)
2012 IAAB /Christoph Merrian Foundation, (Artist in residency), Prohelvetia, Basel, Switzerland.
2010–2011 Hollard Creative Exchange Program Cape Town & Johannesburg.
2011 Celeste Prize Award Finalist, Invisible Dogs Gallery Brooklyn, NYC.
2010 Voices, Spier Contemporary 2010 Bienniale – Selected public Performance Art, Grand Parade, Cape Town.
2023: Social Fabrics, ARTCO Gallery Brussels.
2022: Afrika, Schloss, Zweibrüggen, Germany.
Why not both?, ATRCO Gallery Aachen, Germany.
2019: Coucou Crumble, Gallery MOMO Cape Town, South Africa.
2018: Masks Of Heterotopia, Officine dell’Immagine, Milan, Italy.
Mupia-Mupia, Fondation Friedrich Naumann, Dakar, Senegal.
2016: Mupia-Mupia, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2011: Notre Peau, The Association for Visual Art (AVA) Gallery/ the Hollard Exchange Programme, Cape Town, South Africa.
Echoes: (travelling exhibition): Alliance Française of Port Elizabeth; Alliance Française of Pretoria; Alliance Française of Durban; Alliance Française of Mbabane, Swaziland; Alliance Française of Maputo, Mozambique; Alliance Française of Johannesburg .
2010: Echoes, Alliance Francaise of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
2024-2025: Africa Rising: 21st Century African Photography from the Fitchburg Art Museum
2023: INVESTEC Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa.
2022: INVESTEC Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa.
AKAA Art Fair, Paris, France.
2021: Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts,London, UK.
CONGOVILLE, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium.
SUPERNATURAL, Sculptural Vision of the Body, Oulu Museum of Art, Finland
AKAA, Paris, France
Positions Art Fair, Berlin, Germany.
2019: Coucou Crumble, Gallery MOMO, Cape Town, South Africa
Positive Planet Investor Forum, Kensington Palace, London, United Kingdom
AKAA, Paris, France
Still Here Tomorrow to High Five You Yesterday…, Zeitz MOCAA, CT, SA
Face with Tears of Joy, Blitz, Valletta, Malta
Digital Imaginaries: Africas in Production, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg;
Kër Thiossane, Dakar, Senegal; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2018: Congo Stars, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
ON/OFF, Casa Victor Hugo, Havana, Cuba 17 Biennale De Lubumbashi, DRC YOUNG CONGO, Kin ArtStudio, Kinshasa, DRC
Urban Axis / Another Antipodes, PS Art Space, Freemantle, Australia
WE CALL IT “AFRICA”, Artists From Sub-Saharan Africa, Officine dell’Immagine, Milan, Italy
2016: National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Paradoxal Stranger, Gallery MOMO, Cape Town, South Africa
Troubled Land, (Performance/Video Installation), Iziko South Africa National,CT, SA
2015: Celeste Prize Finalists Exhibition & Awards, The Invisible Dog, New York, USA
On Entropy and Becoming, AVA Gallery Constitution Hill, Johannesburg Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa
2014: Art of the Lived Experiment, The Bluecoat School Lane Liverpool, UK and Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA), Grand Rapids, Michigan, US
2012: Window Exhibition/ Traces at Dock, with Miatta Kawinzi (New York), Janne Nabb & Maria Teeri (Helsinki), Basel, Switzerland
2011: Thinking Africa and the Diaspora Differently, Centre for African Studies (CAS), UCT, Cape Town, South Africa
Celeste Prize Finalists Exhibition & Awards, The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2010 reasons to live in a small town, Goethe on Main Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
AFRIKA SUR L’ÉVENEMENT POÉTIQUE, Centre Culturel des Mazades, Toulouse, France
2010: Amani Art Festival 2010, Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa
The Association for the Visual Arts (AVA), Cape Town
2009: Art Reach Exhibition, The Association for Visual Arts (AVA), Cape Town, SA 3
2008: The Art of Determination, Harare International Festival of the Arts, National Gallery of Harare, Zimbabwe
The Soul of Africa, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Midrand, South Africa
2007: Human Rights Day, Iziko Slave Lodge Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
X-Cape Circuit, Scalabrini Centre, CT, SA
2006: A journey together, Scalabrini Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
Portrait Exhibition, The Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town, SA
A Response to Picasso & Africa, Alliance Française of Cape Town, Cape Town, SA
2010: Co-facilitation of workshop “UP and Down” research project from “2010 Reasons to live in a small Town” Project, Supported by the Visual Art Network of South Africa (VANSA) at Gauteng and Western Cape/ South Africa
Facilitation of 3 days’ workshop “Strokes of Genius Project” ( a Visual Art Development Project with young artist) at Bien Donnée Mannor Farm-Simondium, in association with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport and the Department of Trade and Industry, Paarl/ Western Cape-South Africa
2008: “Talking Heads” a Video performance with Magdalena Kunz and Daniel Glaser (Swiss guest artists / Pro Helvetia Swiss Council), Cape Town
2007: Co-Facilitated an Educational Youth Programme in collaboration with Africa Centre and Spier Contemporary 2007.
“The Art of the Dessent’– a Canadian film documentary programme in collaboration with Jonathan Shapiro, Zwanke Mbuli, Ruth Carnesson, Lionel Davis (Community Projects) with Scott Milne (Project Manager and Field researcher on Research Assessment Services in Toronto Canada), Cape Town-SA – Educational Youth Programme and a series of mixed-media installations at IZIKO Museum / SA, Cape Town
2006: Co-facilitated an Art Therapy Exchange Programme for refugee women and children, Voyage Ensemble Project at the Scalabrini Centre, Bonne Esperance (CWD) and Masipumelele, Cape Town
The Deutsche Bank AG Collection, (private view) – The “Mbikayi” room, London Branch.
The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
The Pérez Art Museum in Miami
Irma Stern Museum, University of Cape Town (UCT)
Stellenbosch University
The Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG)
Galila’s P.O.C Collection
The Kilbourn Collection
The Scheryn Art Collection 4
Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, Ohio
Spier Arts Trust
Hollard Corporate, Johannesburg
The Development bank of South Africa, Midrand
Nando’s Collections: South Africa, Africa, Europe, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, Asia