Mike Kasongo

Mike Kasongo is a Congolese artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, whose work explores themes of identity, resilience, and cultural interconnectedness, drawing on an analytical sensibility rooted in his economics and data science background.

Shaped by a life lived across the Democratic Republic of Congo, Canada, Ireland, and South Africa, Kasongo’s work is rooted in the diasporic experience, its displacements, its reinventions, and its quiet forms of resilience. His art explores how identity is carried, reshaped, and remembered across borders, revealing the cultural threads that connect distant geographies.