Naomi Lulendo

Naomi Lulendo (b. 1994 in France; lives and works in Paris) is a French-Guadeloupean-Congolese artist whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses photography, ceramics, installation, and video. Through these mediums, she investigates processes of détournement, mobilizing shifts in language, meaning, objects, and identity to examine the structures through which perception and representation are produced. Her work engages the instability of signs and the ways in which cultural, linguistic, and symbolic systems shape, complicate, and transform subjectivity.

Operating through displacement, fragmentation, and recontextualization, Lulendo constructs works that question fixed readings and singular narratives. Her practice foregrounds the tensions between visibility and opacity, translation and misinterpretation, as well as the porous boundaries between lived experience and constructed fiction. Across her work, materials, images, and gestures function as sites of negotiation, through which questions of identity, projection, and transformation are critically articulated.

Lulendo received her MFA from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018, where artist Pascale Marthine Tayou became an important mentor throughout her formation. She has presented solo exhibitions including Bleu Miroir at Agence Trames, Dakar (2021), and Faites vos Je at Beaux-Arts de Paris (2018). In 2021, she was selected by Zeitz MOCAA to join Unfinished Camp, an international and ongoing network of artists and art institutions across six continents, conceived and led by Hans Ulrich Obrist and András Szántó. She was also a resident of the 5th session of Raw Académie under the direction of Otobong Nkanga (2018). In 2024, she joined the residency program at the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris and the Post-Diplôme Art program at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, directed by curator and critic Oulimata Gueye. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2025); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2024); Selebe Yoon, Dakar (2023, 2024); Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (2021); Pivô Art Center, São Paulo (2021); Comédie de Caen (2021); HEK – House of Electronic Arts, Basel (2021); The Shed, New York (2021); Galerie 31Project, Paris (2021); Galleria Continua, Les Moulins (2016); and Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris (2015, 2019). She has also developed public performances at FRAC Champagne-Ardenne as part of the FAR AWAY festival (2023); Bétonsalon – Centre d’art et de recherche, Paris, within the program Bivouac #2 curated by Raw Material Company (2020); Galerie Allen, Paris, at the invitation of the Prologue collective (2019); and Raw Material Company (2018).