Francesca Bifulco is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist from the ancient city of Pæstum, Southern Italy. Her work processes personal and collective aspects of the human experience channeling the coexistence of its duality through paintings, mixed media sculptures, and multimedia installations. Her immersive collaborative environments interlace sound, video, and performances enhanced by fabrication and lighting design, as integral extensions of her practice. Bifulco’s distinctive visual language plays with scale, textures or the illusion of textures, and effects, reversing and reconfiguring the material through a versatile and experimental implementation of techniques. Her subjects have spanned from crowds and the force of plurality to individuals affected by social media culture, to the ritualistic repetition of card-playing in a conflicted and underrepresented Neapolitan neighborhood in her homeland. Her current series focus on three different - often interconnected - themes: treating the iconic SoCal palm tree as an anthropomorphic symbol of the communal endurance of transplants and immigrants, navigating personal loss and grief through preservation of memory, and examining the sociopolitical structures of oppression and marginalization in the U.S.
Bifulco is the other member of the interdisciplinary artist duo, Card 0 Collective, and on the Board of Directors of the DTLA-based, Immersive Arts Center (IAC), a female-led nonprofit organization providing arts programs and practical job opportunities for creatives, youth and underserved communities. Her studio is located in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.
EDUCATION
2011 BA, Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Set design for Visual and Performing Arts, Rome, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Ignited States of America, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles (forthcoming)
2023 Problematic Palms, Three-person curated by Shana Nys Dambrot, Marks Art Center at College of the Desert, Palm Desert, CA
2023 Candles Burning in the Wind, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Forcella Reigns: The Men Who Play Cards, supported by IAMLA, ZJU Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Inside Out Of Touch, WAAS Gallery, Dallas, TX
2012 HIBI, curated by Kio Griffith, Gallery Lara 605, Tokyo, Japan
2012 People: Multitude-Solitude, Two-person curated by A. Dusi, ADC & Building Bridges, Santa Monica, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Of Flames and Shadows Gone Astray, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2023 The Passage, curated by Liz Walsh, Discount Mirrors Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Where Earth Becomes Aether, curated by Jason Jenn & Vojislav Radovanović, Wönzimer, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Spaceland VI: Requiem, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Fast Forward: The Future Is Equal, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Fast Forward: The Future Is Female, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Supermoon 8, curated by Liz Walsh x LAST Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2020 The creative reimagining, (virtual), MOZAIK Philanthropy, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Human, Stay Gallery (virtual), Downey, CA
2020 Supermoon 3, curated by Liz Walsh x LAST Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Schomburg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Play, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 WAAS Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 Atmosfere, Associazione Heart, Vimercate, Italy
2013 Bergamot Station 19th Anniversary Show, JNA Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2013 Tracce di Contemporaneo, Villa Filippini, Besana Brianza, Italy
2013 I Cantieri Dell'Immaginario, Zona Rossa, L’Aquila, Italy
2013 Trusted with Altars curated by Rodney Burns, CHURCH, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Limbo, curated by Aja Milan Martin, WAAS Gallery, Dallas, TX
RECOGNITIONS
2020 MOZAIK Future Art Award, recipient
2016 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, City of Los Angeles Juried Group Exhibition, second-place winner
PRESS
2023 Meet Wishful, Wicked Painter Francesca Bifulco, Interview by Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly
2023 Francesca Bifulco: Candles Burning in the Wind, Interview by Roberto Croci, Hestetika
2021 Meet Francesca Bifulco, Interview, Shoutout LA
2020 Le vite dei neri contano, lo dicono gli art-ivisti, Interview by Roberto Croci, Il Venerdì, Print media
2019 Meet Francesca Bifulco and Alex Schetter, Thought-Provokers series, Interview, VoyageLA
2018 Forcella Reigns: The Men Who Play Cards, Review by Hoyt Hilsman, Riot Material
2018 Artist Francesca Bifulco Evokes a Napoli Neighborhood in North Hollywood, Article by Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly
2018 The Italian Experience, Go LA , by Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly, Print media
2014 Getting Lost In The Crowd: Francesca Bifulco at JNA Gallery, Interview by Ellen C. Caldwell, New American Paintings
