Born 1991, UK
Education​
2010-2013
BA Fine Art, Birmingham School of Art, First Class
​Shows
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2017
Short Circuit, venue tba, Venice [upcoming]
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2016
Deep Trash from Outer Space, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, London
Futura Free: A Sensing, 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, London
Short Circuit, Stryx, Birmingham
Random Acts Launch, ICA, London
Ambition pop-up show, HOME, Manchester
Them, Lemonade Gallery, online
Galleri CC at Supermarket Art Fair 2016, Stockholm
Abandoned Margins: Policing the Black Female Body, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
2015
LOOP- A video art marathon, CC Gallery, Malmö
Fierce Festival 2015, BOM, Birmingham
Live + Loud, Selfridges, Birmingham
Lotusland Video Evening, Changing Spaces Project Space, Cambridge
Disconnect, Home For Waifs and Strays, Birmingham
Give Me Ur Attention Volume II, the Audio Foundation, Auckland and online via Fresh and
Fruity
This Is What A Feminist Looks Like, Stryx, Birmingham
2014
Fierce Festival 2014, Friction Arts, Birmingham and online via thisistomorrow.info
Deep Trash Italia: Eurosex Edition, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, London
ESP Film Open, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Superstyling! Part of 'Looking Out from the CCCS', Vivid Projects, Birmingham
​New Art West Midlands, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
2013
I Hate America! (I Love America), The Glass Factory, London
P A N D E M I C, the Photo Parlour, Derby
SPACE, Electric Picture House, Congleton, Cheshire
Degree Show, Birmingham School of Art
[STATE] of Play, The Vaults, Birmingham
The Triumph of Dionysus, part of SHOUT Festival​, Birmingham
The Artist’s Playground, Antwerp Mansion, Manchester
2011
Plait, Birmingham School of Art
Puh-lit-i-kuhl, Birmingham School of Art
2010
End of year show, Derby College
Residencies
2016
MulengaMoji, part of *Dancing Girl Emoji*, online via Delta Sorority
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2015
SOUP Part One: Feminism, STRYX arts, Birmingham
Awards and Grants
2014
Fierce FWD bursary
Fierce FWD microbursary
Longlisted for WW SOLO Award
Selected as an inaugural member of Black Hole Club, Vivid Projects
2013
Shortlisted for Grand Union bursary
Selected for the 2013 ESP Graduate Bursary
Bibliography
2015
Contemporary Other, Issue #2
2011
Objectification on Sunday, Msfac
Projects and other activity
2016/2017
First Acts Future Ambassador for Random Acts
2016
Took part in conversation "Gender Resistance in Utopia", 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, London
Created a short film as a commission for Channel 4's Random Acts
Led a series of video editing/green screen workshops in partnership with MAIA Creatives and Birmingham City Council
2015
Contributed to an ongoing online project by They Are Here
Commissioned to create new work for event µChip 3
2014
Took part in screening/panel talk "Online Social Networks As Medium", Mac, Birmingham
2013
Assisted Ivan Lupi/AMAE in his performance “Restaging the Wound”, at The Triumph of Dionysus, part of SHOUT Festival, Birmingham
2011
Co-curated Plait exhibition, Birmingham School of Art
2010
Co-curated Freakshow exhibition, Birmingham School of Art
Reviews, interviews and articles
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https://instigatearts.org/2016/07/03/emily-mulenga-ambition-artist-qa/
http://femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com/post/139245532442/emily-mulenga-artist
http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/fierce-festival-emily-mulenga-orange-bikini
http://totaltheatre.org.uk/fierce-2015-what-will-be-will-be/
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http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/fierce-festival/
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http://www.candidmagazine.com/fierce-festival-birmingham-live-art-collision-hyperlocal-and-supernow/
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​Published Writing​
2015
5 Reasons to Love: Yayoi Kusama, Kolekto Magazine
2014
An Interview With: Jonathan Wilkinson, Kolekto Magazine
Compass Festival 2014, Kolekto Magazine
Fierce Festival 2014, Kolekto Magazine
5 Reasons to Love: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kolekto Magazine
Pharrell x Art, Kolekto Magazine
An Interview With: GREMS, Kolekto Magazine
Cao Fei Interview, Kolekto Magazine
Ayo & Oni Oshodi, And when you finally disappear / We'll just say you were never here, Kolekto Magazine
5 Reasons to Love: Jeff Koons, Kolekto Magazine
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2013
Winter beauty feature, La Vida Magazine
Whisky Blancmange, Kolekto Magazine
XII: Into the Dark, Kolekto Magazine
Summer beauty feature, La Vida Magazine
Just To Illustrate, Kolekto Magazine
Helen Benigson Interview, Kolekto Magazine
The Next Episode: Life After Uni, Vada Magazine
Where My Gurls At? Girl Power, Vada Magazine
5 Reasons to Love: Takashi Murakami, Kolekto Magazine
Spring beauty feature, La Vida Magazine
What A Turn Off, Vada Magazine
Do You Want Cheese With That?, Vada Magazine
Thrift Radiates Happiness, Kolekto Magazine
​An Interview With: eBoy, Kolekto Magazine​
SHOUT Festival and the Triumph of Dionysus, Kolekto magazine
2012
Liverpool Biennial, Kolekto magazine
Sheffield Street Art: Phlegm, Kolekto Magazine
Diamond Armour, Kolekto magazine