Ivy Kalungi was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and currently lives and works in Liverpool, UK. She completed her MFA at Manchester University in 2020 and her BA at Liverpool Hope University in 2019. Selected exhibitions include a duo exhibition with Matthew Bamber at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2022); FACT residency, Liverpool (2019); OUTPUT Gallery, Liverpool (2019). Kalungi has participated in panel discussions including with Lubaina Himid: Black Women Artists Symposium, Uclan (2018) and Artists in Conversation, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (2018). Her upcoming solo exhibition with Pipeline will be Kalungi's first London project.