TARIKU SHIFERAW
ABOUT | WORKS | EXHIBITIONS
ABOUT
Tariku Shiferaw is a New York–based artist who explores “mark-making” through painting and installation art in order to address the physical and metaphysical spaces of painting and societal structures. He was raised in Los Angeles, California and currently lives and works in New York City. Shiferaw’s current exhibitions include men of change - a three-year nationally traveling exhibition with the Smithsonian institution, as well as unbound, a group exhibition at the Zuckerman museum of art. Shiferaw has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and the drawing center.In 2017, he had his first international solo show titled, erase me, at Addis Fine art, London. In 2018, he had another solo exhibition titled, This Ain’t Safe, at cathouse proper, Brooklyn.
Shiferaw participated in the independent study program at the Whitney Museum of American art (studio), in open sessions at the drawing center, and he was artist-in-residence at theLES Studio program in New York City. in 2020, he will partake in an artist residency at the world trade center through silver art projects. publications on Shiferaw’s works include the New York times, the Washington Post, Hyperallergic, and art in America, among many others.
Tariku Shiferaw is represented by Galerie Le Long & Co in NY
WORKS
All We Got (Chance)
Spray paint, iridescent film, vinyl
40 x 30 in
We Ouchea (Ace Hood)
Spray paint, mylar, vinyl
20 x 16 in
Treat MeLikeFire (28 Lion Babe 29)
Acrylic on canvas
16 x 12 in
EXHIBITIONS
LatchKey Gallery | 173 Henry Street | info@latchkeygallery.com | 646.213.9070