Works available6
StylesAcrylic on canvas, Oil on canvas, Acrylic in canvas
Franco K Mbilizi
Chicago/ Malawi, United States
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1980
Franco Kwachelanji Mbilizi, known as Franco The Creator, is a Malawian-born visual artist based in Chicago. His paintings bring together the parts of his life that resist easy explanation: migration, queerness, belonging, and the experience of living in a changing body. Initially self-taught, Franco continues to develop his practice through his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He combines surrealism, abstract expressionism, geometric forms, and the energy of graffiti to create imagined landscapes where emotion takes physical shape. Fragments, figures, and unexpected colo...
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Murals
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“Franco paints to make room for every part of himself the world denies.”
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by Franco K MbiliziOriginal work
24 × 18 in
$3,040
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