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 at NOIRES | Eight Cubic Meters | Amsterdam (NL)
Monday dinners at NOIRES | 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
(Upcoming) 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)
commission & other projects
2022
Assistant director, Super 8 filming & translation I Documentary with 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
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)
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 Yaoundé (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)