Francesca Bifulco (b.1986) is a Los Angeles based visual artist from Paestum, Southern Italy.  Bifulco’s precise stark lines push a graphical sense through the medium of painting, fluctuating between large-scale canvases, textural wooden compositions and treatments, to multidimensional black box installations. Her dynamic line work simultaneously defines and blurs forms within a sentiment of controlled chaos, allowing her to crisscross the figurative and the abstract spheres. Bifulco’s subjects span from crowds and their behavioral impact, to individuals affected by the cultural transformation dictated by social media, men playing cards in a conflicted and underrepresented neighborhood of Naples, to extracting shapes from the physical environment. In her current works she turns her energy inward to explore the effects of personal loss and the rise from the ashes, while delving into the social awakening deriving from systemic injustices, racism, and the political turmoil in the US. Her most distinctive subject has been crowds coming together and crossing paths. Her approach to the different subjects is permeated with an anthropological perspective as an essential part of her overall creative process. 

Bifulco is a member of the LA based multimedia artist duo, Card 0 Collective. Her studio is located in the Lincoln Heights area of Downtown Los Angeles. 

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Education

2011 Academy of Fine Arts, BFA, Visual and Performing Arts, Rome, Italy

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Solo Exhibitions

2018 ZJU Theater "Forcella Reigns: The Men Who Play Cards", Los Angeles, USA 

2018 ZJU Theater "Forcella Reigns: The Men Who Play Cards, Test Run", Los Angeles, USA

2015 WAAS Gallery “Inside Out Of Touch” Dallas, TX

 

Group Exhibitions

2020 MOZAIK Philantropy, Virtual Exhibition,  https://mozaikphilanthropy.org/exhibition/ 

2020 LAST Projects, “Supermoon 3”, Los Angeles, USA (live broadcast) 

2020 Stay Gallery, “human”, Downey, CA, USA (virtual 3D exhibition) https://staygallery.org/human

2017 Schomburg Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, USA

2016 LAMAG Gallery, Barnsdall Art Center “Play” Los Angeles, USA 

2014 WAAS Gallery “Pop Up” Dallas, TX

2014 JNA Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, USA

2013 Associazione Heart “Atmosfere” Vimercate, Italy

2013 JNA Gallery “Bergamot Station 19th Anniversary Show" Santa Monica, USA

2013 Villa Filippini “Tracce di Contemporaneo” Besana Brianza, Italy

2013 Zona Rossa “I Cantieri Dell'Immaginario” L’Aquila, Italy

2013 Church Gallery “Trusted with Altars” Los Angeles, USA

2012 WAAS Gallery “Limbo” Dallas, USA

2012 Roppongi 605 Project Space by Gallery Lara “HIBI”, Tokyo, Japan

2012 ADC Gallery “People: Multitude-Solitude” Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, USA

 

​Awards

2020 MOZAIK Future Art Award and honorarium, juried by MOZAIK Flow Funders in the Arts 

2016 LAMAG Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, "Play" Second Place, City of Los Angeles juried group exhibition

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