Emily Mulenga is a multimedia artist whose practice spans video, digital and physical media and music. Using visuals and sound that draw upon video games, cartoons and the internet, her practice explores themes of capitalism, feminism, technology, love, millennial nostalgia and existential anxieties. Gloss and escapism meet humour and unease, spanning past, present and future.

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EDUCATION

MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, 2018 - 2020

BA Fine Art, Birmingham School of Art, 2010 - 2013

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Solo and DUO SHOWS

• Fantasy Star Online [solo displays in conjunction with group exhibitions In the Black Fantastic and Winter Lights], Southbank Centre, London, UK

• Data_Blood III, External Pages, online

• Now that we know the world is ending soon...what are you gonna wear?, Cheap Cheap Gallery, Birmingham, UK

• Electric Lady Land, Enclave Lab, London, UK

• Taking Up Space, Firstsite, Colchester, UK

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Selected group shows​​​

• Manifesto for Sustainable Experimentation, Beaconsfield, London, UK

• Respawn, SEAGER, London, UK

• ACall Arts Festival, Staffordshire St Gallery, London, UK 

• Portal Park, MaMA, Rotterdam, Netherlands

• NAE Open, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK

• Player Piano, The Art Station, Saxmundham, UK

• Eyes on the Horizon - Perspectival Shifts, BUoY Tokyo, Japan

• The Advantages Of Being Boneless And Incomplete, Banner Repeater, London, UK

• Saturday Morning Animation Club, online

• Cut Copy Remix II, Vivid Projects and Birmingham Museums, Birmingham, UK

• Wells Kitchen, Wells Projects, London, UK

• Companions, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland

• Careful Networks, Phoenix, online

• Collective Intimacy: Reviving a Live Programme, The Showroom x theVOV

• Piper in the Woods, isthisit? www.isthisitisthisit.com

• Well Now WTF?, www.wellnow.wtf

• Afro Futures_UK: Unravelling New Futures, Firstsite, Colchester, UK

• Super Black, Firstsite, Colchester, UK

• Thick/Er Black Lines present a screening of Black British Women/Femme Filmmakers, 180 The Strand, London, UK

• Vague But Exciting, Vivid Projects, Birmingham, UK

• WRO Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland

• Afrotech Fest, Rich Mix, London, UK

• WE RUN THIS, BOM, Birmingham, UK

• Cybertwee exhibition, Cybertwee Virtual Headquarters app

• Futura Free: A Sensing, 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, London, UK

• Galleri CC at Supermarket Art Fair 2016, Stockholm, Sweden

• Abandoned Margins: Policing the Black Female Body, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, USA

• Fierce Festival 2015, BOM, Birmingham, UK     

• Fierce Festival 2014, Friction Arts, Birmingham, UK, and online at thisistomorrow.info

• ​New Art West Midlands, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK

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PROJECTS​

• Commission for The Collective in memory of Bob Lee, London

• Visiting Practitioner, Chelsea College of Arts, London

• Algo | Afro Futures, Vivid Projects, Birmingham. Recording of performance livestream here.

• Young Art Kommunity (YAK) workshops, Firstsite, online. Video 'Our House' available here, part of the exhibition 'House Share'

• Youth Collective Workshops, Camden Arts Centre, online

• Cyberrr Sounds, part of NEAR FUTURE, Montez Press Radio

• It Gets Lighter From Here, event for Winter Solstice for Culture Central (via Vivid Projects), online

• 1997 BC, a commission for Big Window accompanied by essay 'Regarding the Nineteen-Nineties' by Ketter Weissman, www.bigwindow.org 

• Green Screen Dreams workshop, part of Late At Tate Britain: Dystopian Narratives, Tate Britain, London, UK

• Artist talk "The Conch", South London Gallery, London, UK

• Family Artist in Residence workshops, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

• Living on the Margins conference 2019, University of Westminster, London, UK

• Cyber Grrrl workshop, BOM, Birmingham, UK

• Guest speaker at 14-18 Now workshop, Lewisham Southwark College, London, UK​

• Panel conversation "Navigating Spaces Switching Locations", Grand Union, Birmingham, UK

• Panel conversation "Democracy and Data" as part of Hello Culture, Birmingham, UK

• Fellow at BOM (Birmingham Open Media), UK​

• Panel conversation "IRL to URL", BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK

• Screening/talk at Jenn Nkiru Presents: New Transmissions, New Pathways, ICA, London, UK

• Q&As as part of Random Acts Playback, the Phoenix, Leicester and Flatpack Hub, Birmingham, UK

• Accelerator Artist Talks, Birmingham School of Art, UK

• First Acts Future Ambassador for Random Acts, UK

• *Dancing Girl Emoji* residency, online via Delta Sorority

• Panel conversation "Gender Resistance in Utopia", 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, London, UK

• "Taking Up Space", a commission for Channel 4's Random Acts, UK

• Video editing/green screen workshops in partnership with MAIA Creatives and Birmingham City Council, UK

• SOUP Part One: Feminism residency, STRYX arts, Birmingham, UK

• Created new work for journal Contemporary Other                       

• Contributed to an ongoing secret online project by They Are Here

• Commissioned to create new work for event µChip 3, Birmingham, UK​

• Screening/panel conversation "Online Social Networks As Medium", mac, Birmingham, UK

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AWARDS & GRANTS

• Arts Foundation Futures Award, Digital Art, 2023

• Frank Bowling Scholarship, University of the Arts London​                     

• Fierce FWD bursary

• Fierce FWD microbursary                  

• ESP Graduate Bursary

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PRESS

• Daily Lazy

• De:Formal

• Pepperdine Center for the Arts

• Hit²

• South London Gallery 

• Tomboy Ultd

• Firstsite

• Art Attack

• FAD Magazine

• Instigate Arts

• Les Femmes Folles

• This Is Tomorrow

• Total Theatre

• Exeunt Magazine

• Candid Magazine

• Aesthetica Magazine 

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