Popular Painting as History: Trajectory of an Artist from Kinshasa

Sapin Makengele is a self-taught Congolese popular painter from Kinshasa, DRC. His work depicts and comments upon social and political lifeworlds in the Congo and beyond. His paintings have been excited in group and individual exhibitions in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chad, Congo, France, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States.

Organized in collaboration with the African Studies Symposium