Tariku Shiferaw is a New York-based artist who explores mark-making through painting, addressing issues around space-making within societal structures. Group exhibitions include Men of Change, a four-year, nationally traveling exhibition with the Smithsonian Institution (2019–2023); Unbound, at the Zuckerman Museum of Art (2020–2021); The 2017 Whitney Biennial, as part of Occupy Museums (2017); 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). Solo exhibitions include It’s a love thang, it’s a joy thang at Galerie Lelong, NY (2021), This Ain’t Safe at Cathouse Proper, Brooklyn (2018); and Erase Me at Addis Fine Art, London (2017).
Shiferaw participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (2018–2019) and Open Sessions at The Drawing Center (2018–2020). He is currently an artist-in-residence at Silver Art Projects (2020–2022).
