Tariku Shiferaw
Tariku Shiferaw
Tariku Shiferaw is a New York-based artist who explores mark-making addressing the physical and metaphysical spaces of painting and social structures. Recent exhibitions include Men of Change, a four-year nationally traveling exhibition with the Smithsonian Institution, 2019–23, and Unbound, Zuckerman Museum of Art, 2020–21. Other group shows include the 2017 Whitney Biennial, as part of Occupy Museums; A Poet*hical Wager at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, 2017; and What’s Love Got to Do With It? at The Drawing Center, 2019. Notable solo exhibitions include Erase Me, Addis Fine Art, London, 2017; This Ain’t Safe, Cathouse Proper, Brooklyn, 2018; and It’s a love thang, it’s a joy thang, Galerie Lelong, NY, 2021.
Shiferaw participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, 2018–19, and Open Sessions at The Drawing Center, 2018–20. He is currently an artist-in-residence at the World Trade Center through Silver Art Projects.