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 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 have spanned from crowds and their behavioral impact, to individuals affected by the cultural transformation dictated by social media, to 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, the force of womanhood, and delve into the social awakening derived from the systemic injustices, racism, and 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 husband-wife multimedia artist duo, Card 0 Collective. Her studio is located in the Lincoln Heights area of Downtown Los Angeles.

Education

2007-2011 Academy of Fine Arts, BA, Visual and Performing Arts, Rome, Italy

Group Exhibitions

2021 LAST Projects, “Supermoon 8” curated by Liz Walsh, Los Angeles, CA

2020 MOZAIK Philantropy (virtual exhibition), “The creative reimagining”, Los Angeles, CA

2020 Stay Gallery (virtual exhibition), “Human”, Downey, CA

2020 LAST Projects, “Supermoon 3” curated by Liz Walsh, Los Angeles, CA

2017 Schomburg Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

2016 LAMAG Gallery, “Play” Los Angeles, CA

2014 WAAS Gallery “Pop Up” Dallas, TX

2014 JNA Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

2013 Associazione Heart “Atmosfere” Vimercate, Italy

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

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

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

2013 CHURCH “Trusted with Altars” Los Angeles, CA

2012 WAAS Gallery “Limbo” Dallas, TX

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

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

Solo Exhibitions

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

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

Grants/Awards

2021 MOZAIK Flow Funders in the Arts, juror

2020 MOZAIK Future Art Award and Honorarium

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

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