Based in London and Paris.
Available for commissions &
exhibitions.
Contact: bernicemulenga@gmail.com
Instagram: @burneece
![Self-portrait of artist Bernice Mulenga. They are looking down, their hair is blue, they are wearing a black and white top. You can see two chains around their neck, one has the letter be in gold and the other is of a cowrie shell.](https://format.creatorcdn.com/43e84847-6432-4045-b354-b1c8709fbf64/0/0/0/0,0,1440,1800,1600,1800/0-0-0/35f0e0d7-8549-4031-92d6-fb5b545dedfe/1/1/bernice_self_blue_2020_.jpg?fjkss=exp=2040457769~hmac=d3bd8f7aca5af2f5a16f845177c99c484504a0f8d906193f3de43596f0a7ab05)
Finding A Way Out, Self Portrait. 2020
Exhibitions:
Pictures Of Us, Gathering, London, 2023. Curated by Lewis Dalton Gilbert.
Open Eye Gallery. Homotopia Festival, Liverpool, 2023.
The Makings of You Modern Art Oxford as part of Photo Oxford, 2023
Beautiful Experiments Curated by Pelumi Odubanjo & Katy Barron at Photo50 London Art Fair, 2023
Children Of The Diaspora by Pacheanne Anderson Gallery at 1:54 Art Fair, 2022
We Get To Choose Our Families Group show at Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2022
The Reading Room Selected prints as display for Prim Black, 2022
MOVE/002 Group show curated by Fynn Studio, 2022
Imagining Otherwise Group show at The WHO Gallery, 2022
Between Me And You Debut solo show at HOME, 2022
The Rebel Dykes Art & Archive Show Group show curated by Atalanta Kernick & Kat Hudson at Space Station Sixty Five, 2021
Blacklisted: An Indefinite Revolution Group show curated by Pacheanne Anderson at Christies. 2020
Dancing in Peckham Group show curated by Photoworks & Jamila Prowse at Peckham 24 festival. 2019
Afropunk London Installation of #friendsonfilm and polaroid pop up portraits. 2018
Afropunk New York Installation of #friendsofilm curated by BBZ. 2018
A La Maison An interactive workshop with Joy Yamusangie as part of I'm Home exhibition curated by Ronan Mckenzie at Blank 100. 2018
Friay Late: Snap A solo display of #friendsonfilm archive. 2018
Hear Our Voices Documenting London Living – A Photographic Showcase by Gal Dem X House of Vans, 2018
Selected Print/Reads:
Cult Classics, Service To Memory, 2024
On Between Me & You by Monique Todd, 2022
PHOTOWORKS Annual 26, Chain Reaction. 2020
This Is An Art Book, Issue 1. 2019
TIME OUT Cover. 2019
PHOTOWORKS Annual 25 Back cover and article by Jamila Prowse. 2019
WEPRESENT, There’s no limit to our culture. 2019
The Move Mag, Issue 5. 2018
British Vogue, Google Pixel. 2017
Selected Appearances:
Hodari, Urias- Codinome Exagerado. 2024
Neo Gender, Directed by Emannuelle Soffé. 2020
Harpers Bazaar, Cultural Forces as a part of BBZ collective. 2020
Dyo - Go All The Way, Directed by Mahaneela. 2019
The Muse, directed by Anna Fearon. 2019
Selected Talks:
Remembering Songs by/in conversation with Jim C Nedd at Tender Books, 2024
Gushing With Gabby: Queer On The Dance Floor, 2024
International Curators Forum, Living Archives: Intergenerational Conversations Between Artists, Ep 4. Ajamu and Bernice Mulenga, 2023
Holding Up The Ladder, Salon Series 1, 2023
The Politics of Art & Social Change: Rights in Focus Conference. Autograph Gallery, Ajamu, Bernice Mulenga & Jason Okundaye. 2023
Sensing the Image: Photographers in ConversationThis conversation was part of the public programme for Ajamu: Archival Sensoria curated by Languid Hands as part of their fellowship programme No Real Closure. 2021
Inferno Summit: A creatives’ guide to surviving the pandemic with Furmaan Ahmed, Rene Matíc, Sinéad O’Dwyd and Bernice Mulenga chaired by ShayShay Konno. Curated by Lewis G. Burton. 2020
BBC 1XTRA, #BHMVisualHistories, 2019
Photoworks X Offprint, Bernice Mulenga > noiamreiss > Nabila Roubah. Tate Modern. 2019
Friday Late: Snap, in conversation with Ellen Morrison at the V&A. 2018