"Indigenous expressionist": an artist rooted in intuition, childhood memory and Ugandan heritage.
Henry "Mzili" Mujunga (b. 1971, Uganda) is a painter, printmaker and writer, and the leading theorist of indigenous expressionism, the movement through which he has explored intuitive ways of reviving African art. A graduate with honours of the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts, Makerere University, and winner of the Royal Overseas League Art Scholarship (2003), he builds information-packed compositions in which disparate objects converge within intimate spaces, mirroring the identity-making processes of contemporary Uganda. A founding figure of the East African scene, first curator of the Kampala Art Biennale (2014) and co-founder of the Kampala Arts Trust and Start Journal, he has exhibited across Africa and Europe, from 1-54 New York and London to ARCO Lisbon. Afriart Gallery, Kampala, dedicated a 25-year retrospective to his work in 2024. He lives and works in Kampala.