Henry Mzili Mujunga Ugandan, 1971

Mzili was born in Uganda. His paintings make use of his immediate surroundings (both natural and man-made) to create heroism scenarios that promote human power and empathy. Mzili's artworks combine a variety of seemingly unrelated things into a single frame. They're situated in intimate locations where intensely personal interactions occur – often merging multiple such spaces into one – with titles that both describe the interactions within the paintings and allude to exterior associations.

Mzili's collection of items, settings, and existing relationships with these objects mirrors the identity-formation processes he observes in Uganda. Individuals frequently rely on their looks, belongings, and even their environs (and interactions within them) to transmit their own view of themselves. 

Simultaneously, these same characteristics are analyzed by others in order to identify persons in their close surroundings. Mzili is ultimately engaged in 'awing' and 'pleasuring' through color and subject in his information-packed personal compositions.

This well-known artist and printmaker is an indigenous expressionist who creates artworks based on his intuition, childhood recollections, and taught practice.

Education : 

He graduated with honors from Makarere University's Margaret Trowel School of Industrial Fine Art (MTSIFA) in 1996. He also has a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from the same institution.

Mzili was awarded the Royal Overseas League (ROSL) Art Scholarship in 2003.

Exhibitions : 

His artworks are in several prestigious collections and has been exhibited globally including in :

- South-South Veza 2021,

- 1:54 Art fair new york 2019,

- Cape Town Art Fair 2017/18,

- Joburg Art fair 2016.