Liz Ikiriko Biography
Links:
Artist website: https://www.lizikiriko.com
Artist Instagram: @lizikiriko
Reviews:
The Break, The Wake, The Hold, The Breath Circuit Gallery
SPOTLIGHT: LIZ IKIRIKO ON DECENTERING WHITENESS AND REDEFINING THE “ARCHIVE” This Is Worldtown
LIZ IKIRIKO Koffler Digital - Work In Progress
Liz Ikiriko is a Tkaronto/Toronto-based, prairie-born, Nigerian Canadian artist and curator. Her work as an educator, maker and mother inform her practice which is focused on African and diasporic narratives. She is committed to the creation of embodied experiences that utilize accessible platforms to share moments of vulnerability and care for all of us on the margins. She holds an MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University (2019). Her work has been exhibited nationally and her writing has appeared in Public Journal, MICE Magazine, C Magazine and Akimbo. Presently she is curating, Is Love A Synonym for Abolition? (2021), on view at Gallery 44 during the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. She teaches photography at Ryerson University and is Assistant Curator at the Art Gallery of York University.
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![Anchored , colour photograph on hahnemuehle, 2018. Photo: courtesy of the artist.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c57aa91049079676d52bcb3/1568842563763-OHRHFQN6SXZNM0AGEHKH/01_LIkiriko_Flags+of+Unsung+Countries.jpg)
![Baseless Compass - Ibiwari Ikiriko , cyanotype print on cloth, 2019](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c57aa91049079676d52bcb3/1572471422044-TEHLL6L3KAX31L98SNBT/_DBH7079.jpg)
![Homegoing I , 2017, digital C-print. Photo: courtesy of the artist.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c57aa91049079676d52bcb3/1566864314441-OXPQBINKZQIEQR0GI29S/Ikiriko+Series_Unsung+Countries+Title_Homegoing+I+2017.jpg)
![Lineage , colour photograph on hahnemuehle, 2016. Photo: courtesy of the artist.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c57aa91049079676d52bcb3/1568842928482-V948N8WFOI9BWLB86QUD/07_LIkiriko_Flags+of+Unsung+Countries.jpg)