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prizes & awards

2021

Lichting award winner I NOIRES & Naked Underneath or How to use clothing to assert oneself? I Amsterdam (NL)

Rietveld Review(ed) award winner I Category visual art I NOIRES I Amsterdam (NL)

selected solo exhibitions

2022
Installation NOIRES | San Mei gallery | London (UK)

Performance Where are you from? | San Mei Gallery | London (UK)

Theater play Histoires de femmes | Amsterdam Fashion Week | Amsterdam (NL)

Monday dinners | Eight Cubic Meters | Amsterdam (NL)

Monday dinners | Nieuw en Meer | Amsterdam (NL)

2021

Installation NOIRES | Gerrit Rietveld Academie's graduation show, Glass pavilion | Amsterdam (NL)

selected group exhibitions

2023

(ongoing) Mémoria: récits d’une autre Histoire curated by Nadine Hounkpatin & Céline Seror I National Museum of Cameroon I Yaoundé (CMR) 

2022

Screening Naked Underneath or How to use clothing to assert oneself? I OSCAM 5 YRS Retrospective curated by Marian Duff & Noukhey Forster I OSCAM Museum I Amsterdam (NL)

Screening Naked Underneath or How to use clothing to assert oneself? I stowage & what not' by B.O.O.K (Building Our Own Knowledge) I Birmingham (UK)

Reading NOIRE.S I S.M.A.K. & The Constant Now I Antwerp (BE)

LOADING 823 | Artwell Residencies | Amsterdam (NL)

I am because you are, Vincent op Vrijdag | Van Gogh Museum | Amsterdam (NL)

2021

Book NOIRE.S | Diaspora at home's reading room by Transplantation library I Kadist & CCA Lagos | Paris (FR)

Installation NOIRES & Naked Underneath or How to use clothing to assert oneself? | Amsterdam Fashion Week & Lichting, Capital C | Amsterdam (NL)
Performance Where are you from? | Gerrit Rietveld Academie's fashion show | Amsterdam (NL)

2019

Performance Touch my sins, those bastards | Sauce magazine & Subbacultcha, De School | Amsterdam (NL)

2017

Performance The beloved body | Uncut, Stedelijk Museum | Amsterdam (NL)

Performance Dionysosly yours | Mode à cappella, Le génie d’alex | Paris (FR)

Conferences & workshops

2023

Reading of NOIRE.S moderated by Tabara Korka Ndiaye and Anna Diop Dubois | AWU library | Dakar (SN)

2022

Workshop Play it safe (or not) | San Mei Gallery | London (UK)

Reading of NOIRE.S, A warm hug, casual talk and rocking on pillows together: when the familiarity is so strong that it is reassuring and disconcerting at the same time with melissandre varin | San Mei Gallery | London (UK)

Workshop Play it safe (or not) | Tropenmuseum | Amsterdam (NL)

Conference Wearing your nudity | TEDxAUColege | Amsterdam (NL)

Workshop B/Look Club, Féminismes Africains, Tabara Korka Ndiaye presents NOIRE.S | RAW material company | Dakar (SN)

book & publications

2022

Publication Histoires de femmes I Self-publishing I Amsterdam (NL)

2021

Book NOIRE.S | Self-publishing | Amsterdam (NL)

2018

Publication Touch my sins, those bastards photo series | Sauce magazine's issue II: Probiotic | Amsterdam (NL)

2017

Publication The beloved body photo series | What a waste magazine: On the run | Amsterdam (NL)

commissions & other projects

2023

(ongoing) Creative & production assistant I IAMISIGO fashion brand I Lagos (NG)

2022

(ongoing) Assistant director, Super 8 filming & translation I Documentary with director Festus Toll I Kinshasa (CNG)

2020

Directing, filming & video editing | Documentary Réhabilitation du site historique de Nguiguiss Bamba | Jazboul mouride TV | Mbacké Kadior (SN)

Art direction & graphic design | Fashion catalogue Maam Samba | NGO Les villageois de Ndem | Dakar (SN)

2019

Creative & production assistant I IAMISIGO fashion brand I Lagos (NG)

Art direction & video editing | Fashion short movie Supreme Higher Entity | IAMISIGO SS20 collection | Lagos (NG)

Art direction & graphic design | ThaiThai Restaurant menu | Lagos (NG)

2018

Art direction & graphic design | CD cover Ntjen a mpo’o | La Sanaga choir | Mouanko (CMR)

selected press

2023

NATAAL media I HOME: Between sharing and healing I (WW)

2022

AT5 channel I Young designers do fashion differently: “It's an experience, not something you look at” I (NL)

Mister Motley | Rietveld Review(ed), video portraits of recently graduated artists (part 3) | (NL)

2021

Amsterdam Fashion Week | Roxane Mbanga wint Lichting 2021 | (NL)

Het Parool | Nieuwe Lichting modestudenten Rietveld Academie: eigen Label? Nee, mode is zoveel meer | (NL)

Afri’can success stories | Roxane Mbanga, 24 ans, artiste multidisciplinaire: la valeur n'attend point le nombre d'année! | (FR)

subsidies

2022

Arts Council England I NOIRES I London (UK)

Fluxus I NOIRES I London (UK)

2021

M.C. de Visser Grants | NOIRES & Where are you from? | Amsterdam (NL)

Bekker la Bastide Grants | NOIRES & Where are you from? | Amsterdam (NL)

residencies

2023
Résidence de création I Institut Français du Cameroun I Yaounde (CMR) 

2022

Artwell | Amsterdam (NL)

Nieuw en Meer | Amsterdam (NL)

education

2021

Gerrit Rietveld Academie | Fashion design | Amsterdam (NL)

2015

Prep’art | Artistic preparatory class I Paris (FR)