Weaving counter-colonial narratives that emphasize the possibility of regeneration, Moridja Kitenge Banza crafts powerful visions in which hybridity and resiliency engender new subjectivities. His artistic approach straddles fiction and reality to investigate history, memory, and identity across the territories he inhabits and traverses.

Kitenge Banza won the 1st prize at the 2010 DAK’ART Biennial of Contemporary African Art. He has since presented solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Musée d’art de Joliette, McMichael Collection of Canadian Art, PHI Foundation, and Musée d’histoire de Nantes among other important institutions. His work can be found the in collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Caisse de dépôt et de placements Québec, Art Gallery of Ontario, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Arndt Gallery Berlin, Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as several prestigious corporate collections. A graduate of the Academie des beaux-arts (Kinshasa, DRC), École supérieure des beaux-arts (Nantes Métropole, FR), and Faculty of Human and Social Sciences (Université de La Rochelle, FR), Kitenge was the recipient of a Sobey Art Award in 2020.