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Born in 1991, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Eddy Kamuanga Illunga’s large scale figurative compositions explore the shifts in the economic, political and social identity of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, highlighting the consequences of human exploitation. In 2017, Kamuanga Ilunga’s work was included in the exhibition African-Print Fashion Now! at the Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, California. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in important private and public collections including: Private Collection Laurence Graff OBE; Zeitz Collection of Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa; the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA; Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, USA; the Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa; and Scheryn Art Collection, Cape Town, South Africa.

Eddy Kamuanga’s work and practice has been featured on several occasions in the Financial Times. In 2020 he was named as one of Apollo Magazine’s ‘40 Under 40 Africa’; an accolade celebrating artists, thinkers, business leaders and advocates who have pioneered arts from Africa and the Diaspora.

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