“Mark making is following in the traditional conversation of painting and making marks and gestures that interrogates the space. A mark, as physical and present as cave-markings… reveals the thinker behind the gesture - an evidence of prior markings of ideas and self onto the space.”
– Tariku Shiferaw
Lives and works in New York, NY, US
EDUCATION
2019
Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, New York, NY, US
2015
MFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, US
2007
BFA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, US
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Marking Oneself in Dark Places, Galerie Lelong & Co. New York, NY, US
Making Space: One of These Black Boys, Southhampton African American Museum, NY, US
2021
It’s a love thang, it’s a joy thang, Galerie Lelong & Co. New York, NY, US
2018
This Ain’t Safe, Cathouse Proper, Brooklyn, NY, US
2017
Erase Me, Addis Fine Art, London, UK
One of These Black Boys, Anthony Philip Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY, US
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Bode, Cape Town, ZA
2023
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, US
Color Coded, Bode, Berlin, DE
Color Effects, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, NY, US
The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023: Contact Zone, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY, US
Art Basel Miami Beach, Galerie Lelong & Co., Miami, FL, US
2022
States of Becoming, ICI, New York, NY, US
Summer of Possibilities, Bode, Berlin, DE
Resilience, Eastville Community Historical Society, Hamptons, NY, US
What You See Is What You Get, MASSIMODECARLO, Milan, IT
DIGS, Project8, Melbourne, AU
You'd Think By Now, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, US
Geometries, Sugar Hill Museum, New York, NY, US
In Spite of Modernism: Contemporary Art, Abstract Legacies, and Identity, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, US
Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth., Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD, US
In Spite of Modernism: Contemporary Art, Abstract Legacies, and Identity, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, US
2021
Witness: African Diaspora, Piero Atchugarry, Miami, FL, US
From Modern to Contemporary, CFHill Art Space, Stockholm, SE
2020
Abstraction in the Black Diaspora, False Flag Projects, Queens, NY, US
Unbound, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA, US
Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth., California African American Museum (CAAM), Los Angeles, CA, US
Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth., National Underground Railroad, Cincinnati, OH, US
BLACK VOICES/BLACK MICROCOSM, CF Hill, Stockholm, SE
A Muffled Sound Underwater, Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY, US
6 Plus 1: Featuring Tariku Shiferaw, Hammond Harkins Galleries, Columbus, OH, US
2019
Implied Body, Assembly Room, New York, NY, US
Wu-Tang Clan X Absolute Art, New York, NY, US
What’s love got to do with it, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, US
2018
To Dream Avant-Garde, Hammond Harkins Galleries, Columbus, OH, US
Without Qualities, Addis Fine Art, New York, NY, US
Hyphen America, Gallery 102, Washington, D.C., US
People I Love Who Are Far Away, E.Tay Gallery, New York, NY, US
Into Action, For Freedoms, Los Angeles, CA, US
2017
A Poet*hical Wager, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, US
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US
Black Magic: AfroPasts/AfroFutures, Honfleur gallery, Washington, D.C., US
Leaving Home: Cathouse FUNeral Migrates North, Beacon, NY, US
Woe-nderland, Art in Flux Artfairs, New York, NY, US
Hard Cry, Lubov, New York, NY, US
2016
Life Sized, Anthony Philip Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY, US
Introductions 2016, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US
2015
Off Pink, Parsons MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York, NY, US
New Work New York, 1st MFA Biennial, Brooklyn, NY, US
2013
States of Becoming, 25 East Gallery, New York, NY, US
RESIDENCIES
2023
Arc-Athens artist residency, Athens, GR
2022
Silver Art Projects Residency Program, World Trade Center, New York, NY, US
2020
LES Studio Program, New York, NY, US
Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, US
2018
Vermont College of Fine Arts, Winter Residency, Montpelier, VT, US