Moridja Kitenge Banza works across painting, drawing, photography, video, installation, and printmaking. Operating between reality and fiction, his practice interrogates the systems that produce narratives and establish them as truths: maps, archives, official documents, and religious imagery. Drawing on the colonial history of the Congo and questions of memory, identity, and belonging, he moves between reality and fiction, using beauty as a strategy to draw viewers into questions of extraction, displacement, and reinvention.

Banza was awarded First Prize at the 2010 DAK’ART Biennial of Contemporary African Art. His solo exhibitions include presentations at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), PHI, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Musée d’histoire de Nantes, and the Almas Art Foundation in London.