⇄ Paris/DAKAR
B. PARIS (FRANCE). lives and work BETWEEN PARIS (FRANCE) AND dakar (senegal)
Naomi Lulendo is a french Guadeloupean-Congolese interdisciplinary artist and researcher. From photography to painting and sculpture, installation and video, the artist studies the ways in which certain bodies, clothings, 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 investigates notions and representations of the feminine(s) and foreign bodies in vernacular, traditional and esoteric practices of the arts and sciences (textile crafts, botany, and architecture) and the body (beings in motion and epigenetics). Interested in transcultural cosmologies, she draws from the language, tales, and aesthetics of her Creole and African origins.
A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018, and the Beaux-arts de Lyon postgraduate Art programme in 2025, Naomi Lulendo is a Zeitz MOCAA supported fellow artist for Unfinished Camp, an ongoing international network of artists and nine art institutions on six continents, conceived and directed by Hans Ulrich Obrist and András Szánto; she is also a fellow of RAW Académie 5th session Germination, directed by Otobong Nkanga, at RAW Material Company (2018).
Her work has been exhibited at Frieze (London, 2025), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2024), Selebe Yoon (Dakar, 2023, 2024), Galerie Perrotin (Paris, 2025), Deichtorhallen (Hamburg, 2025), and Palais des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 2015), among others. She has also presented public performances, notably 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).