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Jessica Karuhanga is a Canadian Ugandan-British artist whose work addresses issues of cultural politics of identity and Black diasporic concerns through lens-based technologies, writing, drawing and performances. Through her practice she explores individual and collective concerns of Black subjectivity – illness, rage, grief, desire and longing within the context of Black embodiment. She has been featured in ​AGO’s Artist Spotlight,​ ​i-D, DAZED, Visual Aids, Border Crossings, Toronto Star, CBC Arts, Globe and Mail​ and ​Canadian Art​. She earned her BFA from Western University and MFA from University of Victoria.

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