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) 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.
He is currently based between NYC and Miami.