My whole body of work is against oppression and greed.
If I make a 2, 4, 15, 72 hour performance, it's against oppression and greed.
If I make a site [LOOT] specific installation, it's against oppression and greed.
If I make a public [HONORING THE TREATIES] intervention it's against oppression.
If I make a piece of land art, it's against greed [BREACH].
If I make a performance that is seen by many, by a few or [SAFE CONDUCT] by none, it's against oppression and greed.
If I make a piece in New York, Peru, Australia, Europe or the Caribbean, it’s against greed. And Oppression.
I haven't made a photograph, a text, a performative action that isn't against oppression. Or greed
My whole body of work, including this poem, inspired by Miguel James’ poem Contra La Policía, is against oppression and greed.
My entire body is against oppression.
My entire work is against greed.
My whole body of work is about endurance.
My entire body of work is about hope.
My body of work is about silence.
My work is. About Time.
Endurance.
and Hope.
Iván Sikic (Lima, 1983) has exhibited his work at notable venues such as The 8th Floor (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lima (Peru), Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (Rio, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia & Sao Paulo), Smack Mellon (Brooklyn), Km 0.2 (San Juan, Lima, and Mexico City), Luis Adelantado (Bogotá, Madrid, and Valencia), Vigil Gonzales (Lima), NADA x Foreland (Catskills, NY), Essex Flowers (NY), Art in Odd Places (NY), Das Schaufenster (Seattle), NADA 2021 (Miami), MANA Contemporary (Miami & NJ), the Segunda Bienal Tropical (Loiza, 2016) curated by Marina Reyes Franco, Radamés ’Juni’ Figueroa, Stefan Benchoam & Pablo León de la Barra, and the 2020 Immigrant Artist Biennial presented at Greenwood Cemetery (Brooklyn), curated by Katya Grokhovsky and Harry Weil, amongst others. In 2023, Sikic presented "Some Things Are Best Left Unsaid" at El Patio, in Todos Santos, Mexico, presented by Zona Maco, curated by Juan Canela, Direlia Lazo, Jose Roca, Eloísa Hernández, María Elena Ortiz, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas. He received a Palm Foundation Award for this same piece.
His work has been extensively written about in global arts and mainstream media publications. These include Artnet News, The Huffington Post, The Creators Project, Metro New York, Art Guide Australia, Fast Company, Art Report, La Vanguardia Spain, TerremotoMX, Relieve Contemporáneo, Artishock, Art Reveal Magazine NY, El Espectador (Colombia), and many more.
Sikic is currently based between NYC and Miami.