by Danielle Olivier | Jul 17, 2019
Maurice Mbikayi was born in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo and currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. He holds a BA in Graphic Design (Advertising and Visual Communication), from the Academies des Beaux-Arts in Kinshasa. He completed his Master...
by Danielle Olivier | Apr 15, 2019
Monsengo Shula, who lives and works in the sprawling urban capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was born in 1959, in Nioki. Shula started his artist career at the age of 15 as his cousin’s assistant, the well known Moke, the godfather of the...
by Cornelius Rykaart | Aug 2, 2017
Chéri Samba was born the Democratic Republic of Congo. Currently living and working out of Kinshasa, Samba began his career as an artist without any formal education, starting out as a sign painter before joining Moké and Bodo, along with his younger brother Cheik...