SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Some are Born to Endless Night — Dark Matter
Autograph | London, United Kingdom
September 13th 2019 — January 25th 2020
Become immersed in deep lustres of black punctuated with luminous 24-karat gold and opulent ultramarine blue hues in Lina Iris Viktor’s singular artistic universe.
Her photography, painting and sculptural installations are infused with cultural histories of the global African diaspora and preoccupied with multifaceted notions of blackness: as colour, as material and as socio-political consciousness. To Viktor, black is the proverbial “Materia Prima”: the source, the dark matter that birthed everything.
This is the British-Liberian artist’s first major solo institutional exhibition in the UK, with more than 60 works on display in two galleries.
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Evening Standard, ES Magazine, Artsy
A Haven. A Hell. A Dream Deferred.
New Orleans Museum of Art | New Orleans, Louisiana
October 5th 2018 — January 6th 2019
Recasting factual and fantastical narratives surrounding America’s involvement in the founding of Liberia, “Lina Iris Viktor: A Haven. A Hell. A Dream Deferred”. explores a mythicized history of the West African nation. Central to Viktor’s gilded portraits is the mercurial figure of the Libyan Sibyll; from the Latin “sibyl” meaning prophetess, she is an ancient figure of fate and foresight, later invoked by eighteenth-century abolitionists as the predictor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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Dazed & Confused, NOMA Magazine, Evening Standard
sOLO EXHIBITIONS LIST
Dark Testament, Lina iris Viktor,
Fotografiska Museum | Stockholm, Sweden
25 September, 2020 — 31 January, 2021
Some are born to endless night — Dark Matter, Lina Iris Viktor,
Autograph ABP | London, United Kingdom
13 September, 2019 — 25 January, 2020
A haven. A hell. A dream deferred., Lina Iris Viktor,
New Orleans Museum Of Art | New Orleans, LA
5 October 2018 — 6 January, 2019
The Black Ark, Lina Iris Viktor
The Armory Show, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery | New York, NY
8 March — 11 March, 2018
Black Exodus: Act I — Materia Prima, lina iris viktor,
Amar Gallery | London, United Kingdom
12 September — 20 October, 2017
Arcadia: Into the Blue, Lina Iris Viktor,
Scope International Contemporary Art Show | Miami, Florida
2 December — 7 December, 2014
Arcadia, Lina Iris Viktor,
Gallery 151 | New York, New York
22 May — 10 July, 2014