Based on Lenape territory in NYC, Rivera is a multidisciplinary artist /activist who creates art that evokes ancestral memories. Sculpture, painting, performance ,installations with a concentration in fiber art.
Rivera attended Brooklyn’s Boricua College, a Puerto Rican institution, where she studied the social complexities of minority groups who are underrepresented in higher education. She explores her multicultural heritage with a multidimensional perspective. Creating pathways of playful exploration, acceptance, mixed identity, decolonization, gender equality and spiritual activation , Her Afro-Boricua and nomadic mixed European Roots hold space to support the statement “I am Taíno”, a movement giving her indigenous ancestors the right to exist inside of her through her work .
By threading the spirit of human connection through her lineage, Tamika’s work invites you to share her stories through different textures,sound , forms and colors to find the conversation that arises between our present and our past when we tap into our DNA.
Tamika , A merit grant recipient for Vermont Studio Center , invited artist at SB Center Art Technology in collaboration with Santa Barbara Aerial dance centre. In 2022 selected as one of the Listed artist contributor to Hella Feminist: Museoexclusión, Tanya Aguiñiga at OMCA and for a group exhibition at Shirley Fiterman arts Center Tribeca NY . She ha exhibited and shared at Fort Makers Gallery, Future Fairs, Artsy, Private View Gallery NYC, Whitney Houston Biennial, Cooper Hewitt Museum (store), Arts Restore LA: Hammer Museum, Every Women Biennial and NADA House Governors Island, Featured in publications: Wallpaper, Site Unseen, Curbed, LA times, New York Times Magazine and Vogue. Rivera is founder of “Here Projects”, A collective of collaborators creating resource ,events , curated exhibitions, as a platform for change . Rivera shows her work at Fort Makers Gallery NYC, and continues to work on public and private art commissions, exhibitions around the globe .