Biography
Roxane Mbanga (Paris, 1996) is a multidisciplinary artist of Guadeloupean, Cameroonian, and French heritage, based in Paris. Her practice spans between fashion, film, graphic design, photography, writing, and performance. As a storyteller, she collects the narratives of women with plural identities, exploring the complexity of intersecting perspectives on their bodies across different geographies. Her work examines the relationship between the lived, intimate, and personal body and the perceived body—shaped by societal and cultural projections.
Since 2021, Roxane Mbanga has been developing NOIRES, an immersive project in which she reconstructs the rooms of her imagined home within artistic spaces. Weaving together the threads of her Guadeloupean, Cameroonian, and Ivorian heritage, she incorporates the stories gathered during her travels across Africa and the Caribbean. The first installations—The Balcony, The Street, The Living Room, and The Bathroom—have been exhibited at Fondation H in Paris, the National Museum of Cameroon in Yaoundé, San Mei Gallery in London, and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Two new installations, The Dining Room and The Terrace, will be unveiled during her first solo exhibition at 193 Gallery in November 2025.
A graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Roxane Mbanga was awarded the Lichting and Rietveld Reviewed prizes in 2021. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Fondation H in Paris (2024) and the San Mei Gallery in London (2022) and in numerous group shows, including the Stewart Hall Gallery in Montreal (2025), the National Museum of Cameroon in Yaoundé (2023), and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (2022). She has also gained recognition for her TEDx talk, Wearing Your Nudity, in 2022.
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