Bayangu Mayala, who calls himself Maitre SYMS, was born in Kinshasa on Dec. 25th, 1955. He started his career as a painter in 1977.
Expositions: 1978 "Art Partout", Academie des Beaux Arts, CIAF, Kinshasa; 2001 "La Cite dans la peinture populaire", Centre Wallonie, Bruxelles; Centre Culturel Ku NTWALA (UPN), Kinshasa; 2003 "Kin Moto na Bruxelles", Hotel de Ville de Bruxelles - Galerie Bortier; 2005 "Regards sur les 15 ans de transition", Hotel Memling Kinshasa; 2007 "Le Congo d'hier, d'aujourd'hui et de demain", Hotel Memling, Kinshasa; 2008 "De Stadsschilders van Kinshasa", Hofke van Chantraine, Belgium; 2010 "O Congo. 50 ans d'independance en 50 tableaux", De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium; "FUTUR CONGO", De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium; "50 Jahre Unabhängigkeit des Kongo in Bildern", Castle of Puchenau, Linz, Austria; "Die Freiheit und der Kongo", Jägermayrhof, Linz, Austria.
Studio-address: 201, Avenue
MABEKA, Kinshasa/BUMBU
"Le Roi de Zaire". Acrylic colors on canvas, 83 x 80 cm, 2007.
"Le Congo de Demain". Acrylic colors on canvas, 85 x 96 cm, 2006.