Sungi Mlengeya

Sungi Mlengeya (born 1991) is a Tanzanian self-taught artist who paints minimalistic portraits, often depicting black women and negative space.

[3] While Mlengeya's early works[4] share themes, subject matter, and mediums with her recent pieces, her style has evolved over the years.

After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mlengeya took part in online exhibits, showing her piece, friend, in Unit London's Drawn Together, which ran from June to July 2020.

In July 2021, Mlengeya participated alongside 25 female artists of African descent for A Force for Change in New York City, showing her piece, Up.

[8] Just Disruptions was a collection of pieces that depicted the development of Mlengeya's distinct art style but also manifested the growth of black women and their road to change how they are perceived, which in turn, "challenges our short-span attention economy".