B. PARIS (FRANCE).

lives and work in PARIS.

Naomi Lulendo is a French-Guadeloupean-Congolese interdisciplinary artist and researcher. From photography to painting, sculpture, installation, and video, the artist studies how certain bodies, garments, objects, and architectures are perceived in various cultural and geographical contexts, highlighting their potential to establish new relationships between history and the present. In her research, she examines notions and representations of femininity and foreign bodies in vernacular, traditional, and esoteric practices in the arts and sciences (textile crafts, botany, and architecture) and the corpo-real (beings in motion and epigenetics). Her artistic research focuses on observing the aesthetic and symbolic links between the body, clothing, and architecture — which she considers to be the first, second, and third skins, respectively — in an effort to analyze the individual, collective, social, and political implications of human mobility and cultural collisions. Interested in cross-cultural cosmologies, she draws on the languages, tales and esthetics of her Creole and African origins.

A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris (2018), and a postgraduate in Art and Research from the Beaux-arts de Lyon (2025), Naomi Lulendo is a Zeitz MOCAA associated artist and member of Unfinished CampUnfinished Camp, an international network gathering artists and art institutions on six continents – namely Zeitz MOCAA, HeK, Serpentine, Pivô, LUMA Arles, UCCA, The Highmine, ACMI, and The Shed NY – conceived and directed by Hans Ulrich Obrist and András Szánto. She is also a fellow of the RAW Material Company RAW Académie program for the 5th session (2018) Germination, directed by artist Otobong Nkanga.

Her work has been exhibited at Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2024), Deichtorhallen (Hamburg, 2025), Frieze (London, 2025), Galerie Perrotin (Paris, 2025), Selebe Yoon (Dakar, 2024, 2023), Pivô art center (Sao Paulo, 2022), Galleria Continua (Les Moulins, 2016), and Palais des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 2015) among others. She has presented public performances at FRAC Normandie (Caen, 2025); FRAC Champagne-Ardennes (Reims, 2023); Bétonsalon — centre d'art et de recherche (Paris, 2020); Galerie Allen (Paris, 2019); and RAW Material Company (Dakar, 2018).