Bianca Joanna Buliga is a Romanian-born Kaurna Land Adelaide-based photographer and artist working in documentary, self-portraiture and therapeutic photography techniques. She explores the themes of mental health, identity, migration and neurodivergence through a personal lens. Bianca's work often features long shadows, and deliberate obscurity, visual choices that reflect the complexity of lived experience and resist easy categorisation. She navigates the weights of migration and the ongoing process of building belonging in Australia, while also holding space for grief, and changes. These experiences are approached always with honesty, mindfulness and care, while also not holding back on the reality of living with bipolar and ADHD.

Art for Bianca is a way of processing the world and opening conversations too often kept quiet. Her work is personal and socially engaged, with black and white self-portraiture at its core.

Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions across Australia, including the Head On Festival Open Program (Sydney) and the SALA Festival. Solo exhibitions include Healing Out Loud (Gallery M, 2026; now at Goodwood Theatre and Studios for SALA 2026), Breaking the Silence (Head On Festival, 2025), and Hear Me Say This (SALA Online, 2025). Group exhibitions include Bearded Dragon Gallery, Goodbank, The Mill, and Gallery M.

Bianca is one of 12 South Australian artists selected for Hidden in Plain Sight, presented by Guildhouse and Adelaide Airport, exhibiting at Adelaide Airport during Anti-Poverty Week 2026.

She has received the Merit Award for Within the Spectrum (Gallery M, 2024), and is a finalist in the SALA 2025 and 2026 Awards, the Don Dunstan Foundation Award, and the Head On Festival Open Program.

Her work has been featured in ongoing conversations around mental health advocacy and therapeutic art practice in Australia. She has spoken at a national conference as a keynote speaker on the role of photography and art in reducing stigma around mental health, and her work continues to contribute to broader conversations around mental health advocacy and therapeutic art practice across Australia.