Bibi Dawn
Bibi Dawn "Mother Dawn"
Recycled old linen, cotton, wool, acrylic yarn
Soft Sculptre
2024
Igunaboina (primordial den)
Igunaboina (primordial den)
Wools, acrylic, cotton
Fiberart
2024

Tamika Rivera

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 .

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