Anthony Ngoya
b. 1995, France
Anthony Ngoya self claims to be of Afro-European lineage of artists. Motifs and subjects often closely anchored in the culture tied to his family's ancestral background in Congo with hint of sweet nostalgia and aspiration, but these internalised subject matters may only be sensed as latent layers under the sophisticated visual. The emerging artist investigates to create new directions on multiple planes. He explores beauty and emotion in found objects, industrial materials and various beaten up wastes. His paintings hover between figurative and abstract, and the artist researches to create and introduce new dimensions to paintings and sculptures.
Exhibitions include The Act of Breathing, Horst Arts and Festival, 2022, Vilvoorde, Belgium, Currents #8, 2020, Marres House for Contemporary Art, Maastricht, Under a Flag: Anthony Ngoya and Shao-Jie Lin, Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London in 2020, All in one, Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels 2019.
Graduated from l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre in 2020
Lives and works in Amsterdam, currently at the two-year residency at De Ateliers in the Dutch capital.
image: Installation view of The Act of Breathing, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Horst Arts and Music. Photo Eline Willaert