Iván Sikic is a conceptual artist who utilizes everyday objects, body actions, and language to shed light on questionable societal structures.
Through the use of endurance body actions, installation, and photography, Sikic gives familiar objects, actions, and language new meaning by isolating or re-contextualizing them. He does this by also favoring minimalistic gestures that are charged with meaning. Through this approach, Sikic pushes the audience to reframe their embodied understanding of the status quo through critical thinking, as they confront Sikic’s use of symbolism, the exhausted body, and language, to unpack themes of immigration, labor, violence, censorship, and greed.
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Iván Sikic (Lima, 1983) is a conceptual & perfomrance artist whose work has been exhibited at The 8th Floor (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lima, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (Rio, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia & Sao Paulo), Smack Mellon (Brooklyn), Km 0.2 (San Juan, Mexico City), Luis Adelantado (Bogotá, Madrid, Valencia), La Cometa (Miami), ICPNA (Lima), NADA x Foreland (Catskills, NY), Essex Flowers (NY), Art in Odd Places (NY), Zilberman Gallery (Miami), NADA Miami, and MANA Contemporary (Miami & NJ), among others.
In 2023 he received the Palm Foundation Award for his work Some Things Are Best Left Unsaid, presented at El Patio, Todos Santos, as part of Zona Maco. In 2025, he was invited to participate in the inaugural presentation of La Cuadra at Luis Barragán’s Cuadra San Cristóbal in Mexico City, where he worked under the direction of Marina Abramović.
Sikic’s work has been widely covered by international media, including 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), and El Espectador (Colombia), and more.