Francesca Bifulco is a Los Angeles-based multimedia artist from Pæstum, Southern Italy. Bifulco’s distinctive line work channels a graphical quality through her primary medium of painting, crafting a personal language that carries through large-scale canvases, textural burnt wood compositions and multidimensional installations. Bifulco’s subjects have spanned from crowds and the force of their plurality, to individuals affected by social media culture, to men playing cards in a conflicted and underrepresented neighborhood of Naples, Italy. In her current works she processes the effects of personal loss through preservation of memory, delves into the sociopolitical awakening in the US, and celebrates an iconic symbol of her adoptive city of Los Angeles. Her approach to the different narratives is permeated with an anthropological perspective essential to her overall creative process. Bifulco is a member of the multidisciplinary artist duo, Card 0 Collective, and the LA based-women lead IAC (Immersive Art Collective), a coalition that empowers disadvantaged youth through creative outlets.
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
Group Exhibitions
2022 Bermudez Projects, "Spaceland VI: Requiem", Los Angeles ON VIEW NOW
2022 Bermudez Projects, "Fast Forward: The Future Is Equal", Los Angeles
2022 Bermudez Projects, "Fast Forward: The Future Is Female", Los Angeles
2021 LAST Projects, “Supermoon 8” curated by Liz Walsh, Los Angeles
2020 MOZAIK Philantropy (virtual exhibition), “The creative reimagining”, Los Angeles
2020 Stay Gallery (virtual exhibition), “Human”, Downey
2020 LAST Projects, “Supermoon 3” curated by Liz Walsh, Los Angeles
2017 Schomburg Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
2016 LAMAG Gallery, “Play” Los Angeles
2014 WAAS Gallery “Pop Up” Dallas
2014 JNA Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
2013 Associazione Heart “Atmosfere” Vimercate, Italy
2013 JNA Gallery “Bergamot Station 19th Anniversary Show" Santa Monica
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
2012 WAAS Gallery “Limbo” curated by Aja Milan Martin, Dallas
2012 Roppongi 605 Project Space by Gallery Lara, “HIBI”, Tokyo
2012 ADC Gallery “People: Multitude-Solitude” curated by Anna Dusi, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Solo Exhibitions
2018 ZJU Theater "Forcella Reigns: The Men Who Play Cards", Los Angeles
2015 WAAS Gallery “Inside Out Of Touch” Dallas
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
Print Media
2020 Roberto Croci, "Le vite dei neri contano, lo dicono gli art-ivisti", Il Venerdì - La Repubblica
2018 Shana Nys Dambrot, "The Italian Experience", Go LA , LA Weekly
Web Publications
2021 Shoutout LA, "Meet Francesca Bifulco, Local Stories
https://shoutoutla.com/meet-francesca-bifulco-visual-artist/
2019 VoyageLA, "Meet Francesca Bifulco and Alex Schetter", Thought-Provokers series
http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-francesca-alex-bifulco-schetter/
2018 Hoyt Hilsman, "Forcella Reigns: The Men Who Play Cards" Review, Art/Medium, Riot Material
https://www.riotmaterial.com/forcella-reigns-men-play-cards/
2018 No Proscenium, Everything Immersive
https://noproscenium.com/la-forcella-reigns-the-men-who-play-cards-remount-634b9e9d697e
2018 NoHo Arts District, "Naples Comes to NoHo"
http://nohoartsdistrict.com/north-hollywood-news-noho/item/5927-naples-comes-to-noho
2018 Shana Nys Dambrot, Storytelling, "Artist Francesca Bifulco Evokes Napoli in NoHo", LA Weekly
https://www.laweekly.com/arts/artist-francesca-bifulco-evokes-napoli-in-noho-9391031
