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ARTIST STATEMENT
Merging paintings with sound, mixed media sculptures, video and site-specific installations, I alternate between the outward observation of social structures to an inward exploration of the human experience, often challenging notions of the commonplace by exploring unfamiliar angles.
As my work continues to evolve informed by my ongoing journey as a woman, an immigrant, and a grieving person, I become increasingly interested in the manifestations of endurance through concepts of light, darkness and transformation. Whether it’s in the power of plurality igniting social change, rituals of collective growth cultivated by targeted communities, survival mechanisms of self-preservation, embracing loss as living force to make sense of death; or by interconnections with nature and its ability to generate splendor from devastation. I strive to articulate a language that is visually stimulating and rich with personal emotions: both powerful and vulnerable; theatrical and intimate; visible and hidden, and to hold a space where these opposing forces find perfect harmony, as I think of contrasts and the coexistence of duality as tangible expressions of collective and individual truth.
For a decade now, my life in America has been gaining new shape and meaning, yet simultaneously, the influence of my Southern Italian heritage and personal upbringing are increasingly emerging, enabling me to fuse the two worlds together through unpredicted links and approaches. On one hand, the Greco-Roman past of my homeland featuring solemn temples and ruins trained my eye to a direct and symmetric archetype of beauty, becoming the native foundation of my work, on the other the multilayered essence of Los Angeles reminds me to look at what is hidden, strange, and unassuming, as a daily exercise to further deepen the versatility and open-mindedness I was exposed to since an early age, being raised in my family's campground in Pæstum; an immersive environment that facilitated the amalgamation of various creativities, identities and collectively shared expressions that influenced the multifaceted nature of my practice. At the end of every summer everyone in the campground would join forces in putting together sets, props and costumes for our “Night of the Temples” show, an historical play held on the beach, involving live acting, dancing, sound and lights to honor the glorious origins of our civilization. Life at our campground motivated me to pursue an artistic career with backgrounds in set design for theater, special effects makeup, and costuming, and it naturally grounded me to a multidirectional type of artmaking.
In recent years I have joined the board of directors for the Immersive Art Collective (IAC), a female-owned nonprofit organization based in Downtown Los Angeles, providing arts programs and practical job opportunities for creatives, youth, and underserved communities. There, I often employ my interdisciplinary approach for collective leadership through collaborative projects and initiatives.
Francesca Bifulco (Italy, b. 1986) is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist from the ancient city of Pæstum, Southern Italy. She earned a BA in Set Design for Visual and Performing Arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. Her practice shifts between the outward observation of social structures and an inward exploration of the human experience, merging paintings, sound, mixed media sculptures, video, and site-specific installations. Her work reflects on manifestations of endurance, capturing the coexistence of light, darkness, and transformation.
She serves on the Board of Directors for the Immersive Art Collective (IAC), a female-led nonprofit arts organization based in Downtown Los Angeles, focused on creative exchange programs, events and initiatives rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is the other member of the interdisciplinary husband-wife artist duo, Card 0 Collective.
Bifulco's work has been featured in LA Weekly, The Village Voice, Il Venerdì, The Joan Quinn Profiles, The Wax Paper, Riot Material, LAist, New American Paintings, Juxtapoz. Her studio is in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.
BIO
2011
BA in Set Design for Visual and Performing Arts, Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, ,
2024
Ignited States of America, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles
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
2014
Inside Out of Touch, WAAS Gallery, Dallas, TX
2012
HIBI, Two-person curated by Kio Griffith, Gallery Lara Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2012
People: Multitude-Solitude, Three-person curated by A. Dusi, ADC Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
2025
Re-envisioning Resilience: Reflections on the Los Angeles Wildfires, Barnsdall Junior Arts Center Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024
Winter Show, The Pool House Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2024
The Sadecade Drawing Show, Gallery SADE, Los Angeles, CA
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
Supermoon 3, curated by Liz Walsh x LAST Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Human, Stay Gallery (virtual), Downey, CA
2017
Abstraction and Color, Schomburg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2016
Play, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Kaboo, WAAS Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013
Tracce di Contemporaneo, Villa Filippini, Besana in Brianza, Italy
2013
Bergamot Station 19th Anniversary Show, JNA Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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
2016
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, City of Los Angeles Juried Group Exhibition, second-place winner
2020
MOZAIK Future Art Award, Reimagining the future through art, recipient
2023
Meet Wishful, Wicked Painter Francesca Bifulco, Interview by Shana Nys Dambrot, The Village Voice
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
2022
Women of Labor, The Wax Paper, Issue Thirteen, Print media
2021
Meet Francesca Bifulco, Local Stories, 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
2015
Francesca Bifulco: Inside Out of Touch, Review by Todd Camplin, Modern Dallas
2013
Getting Lost In The Crowd: Francesca Bifulco at JNA Gallery, Interview by Ellen C. Caldwell, New American Paintings