Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj is an Albanian-Italian artist based in Paris. She was born in 1992 in Elbasan, Albania. She grew up in Italy and later moved to France. She works with photography, video installation and sound.
She studied for a Master in Photography and Visual Communication at Riccardo Bauer in Milan, from 2017 to 2019.
Her long-term project Pasqyra e Lëndësh (Sommarium) began in 2019. It looks at exile, displacement and inherited memory. She makes it with analog photography and prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag and Awagami Kozo paper. In 2025 the project received an honourable mention at Giovane Fotografia Italiana in Reggio Emilia.
Her solo exhibitions include Kunst-im-kreuzgang in Bielefeld (2025) and the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm (2026). In 2026 she was chosen for the Hidden Narratives Residency at the Royal Geographical Society in London, with Photoworks.
