Lema Kusa (born 24 July 1944) is a well-known graphic artist and painter from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In his spare time from his different jobs, Lema Kusa created strong and moral paintings. He painted drunks, prostitutes, market figures, beggars and idlers with a strong expressionist palette and distinctive and subtle humor. His paintings are often symbolic and sometimes abstract.

Although highly original, his paintings always show the desire to please the public derived from his training in advertising. He has said of his paintings of women that if God created woman last, he must then have found perfection. He paints women as happy, beautiful and opulent, with their beauty providing a doorway for entering into the mystery of creation.

His work has been shown at numerous exhibitions including the Third Extraordinary Congress of the International Association of Art Critics at Kinshasa N’Sele (1973), the exhibition of avant-garde painters in Paris (1975), Festival of Basel (1978) and solo exhibitions in New York and Atlanta (1980).

He participated in the National Symposium on Authenticity in September 1981 at N’Sele held by the Writers’ Union of Zaire.

He is a member of the National Association of Artists in Fine Arts and an associate member of AICA / Zaire.