He finished his secondary schooling in Mandu in 1970, and moved to Kinshasa the same year in order to partake in the landmark exhibition Art Partout.
[3] Bodo stated, “I express everything that happens to me, so that I am no longer focused on specifically African topics and can address myself to the entire world.”[4] The majority of his scenes encounter partially or fully human figures in a landscape.
Le fleuve de délice (The River of Delight), Je suis unique dans mon genre (I Am One of a Kind), Ignorance, or Love, the Source of Life, perfectly echo his beliefs.
The aims of a portion of his artwork were created in the purpose of discouraging sorcery as a practice; this theme is known as “Ndoki Zoba”.
[2] Bodo is one of the founders and key proponents along with Moké and Chéri Samba of what has come to be known as the Zaïre School of Popular Painting.
Bodo's work can be seen at Tate Modern, the Guggenheim Bilbao, and in the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) of Jean Pigozzi.