Lusak’s Richard

Born in 1994, in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Richard Lusakumunu aka Lusak’s is a painter, singer and filmmaker. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa, specializing in plastic arts. He participated in several exhibitions in Kinshasa where he supervised a group of young artists in the exhibition The Returns on the Political Situation of the Congo. He leaves his country in 2017 to join Greece. In 2018, he creates the artist collective Mazi with which he realizes several exhibitions at the French Institute of Thessaloniki in which political issues remain central. In 2021, he arrives in France and becomes a member of l’Atelier des artistes en exil.