Aja Edwin Mujinga is a conceptual artist whose work explores questions of race, gender, loss, and self. In investigating the implied coherence of structures of identity, her work asks: How does one become oneself amid social constructions, especially when these constructions are alienating or violent? What is lost, and what is still to gain?

Mujinga grew up in a multiracial and multicultural family between Belgium, Martinique, and the United states. She studied ethnic studies and literature at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and holds an M.F.A. in Fine Art and an M.A. in Art History from the University of Montana.

She has exhibited work at the UC Gallery, the Gallery of Visual Arts, FrontierSpace Gallery in Missoula, MT and the Jodee Harris Gallery in Greensburg, PA. She has spoken at international conferences such as CAA and Thinking Its Presence: Conference on Race and Poetics. She received the multicultural fellowship from NSECA in 2017 and was awarded an artist in residence from SFAI’s Equal Justice Residency in August 2018.

After three years as an Assistant Professor teaching studio art and art history classes at the University of Montana Western, Mujinga relocated to Austin, TX to pursue her PhD at the intersection of Art History and Afro-Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. When not in Austin, you will find her in Kansas City with her wife.

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