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Studies
2011 – Victorian College of the Arts; Postgraduate degree in Performance Creation, with Honors
2003 – 2007 The University of Melbourne; Bachelor of Creative Arts

Solo & two person shows/projects.
2024, How High?, Galería La Cometa, Miami
2023, Parceled Paradise, Aparador CDMX, Mexico City, Curated by Lili Casillas
2023, Some Things Are Best Left Unsaid, El Patio, presented by Art Baja & Zona Maco. Curated by Juan Canela, Direlia Lazo, Jose Roca, Eloísa Hernández, María Elena Ortiz & Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Todos Santos, Mexico.
2022, Todo Vuelve, ICPNA, Lima, Curated by Elena Ketelsen González.
2021, It’s My Party and I do What I Want To!, KM 0.2 at NADA x Foreland, Catskills, NY
2021, How High?, Essex Flowers, NY, Curated by The Moving Company.
2021, Iván Sikic: Body at Work, Vigil Gonzales, Cusco, Peru
2021, Trashed, Art in Odd Places, NY, Curated by Furusho von Puttkammer.
2021, BREACH, Das Schaufenster, Seattle, Curated by Anna Parisi & Tiffany Danielle Elliott.
2020, Conscious Oblivion, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, Curated by Katya Grokhovsky & Harry Weil, Green-Wood Cemetery, NY.
2020, Amor Humano, Curated by Juliana Steiner, Vigil Gonzales, Lima Perú.
2020, #Pares, Two Person Show with Manuel Coll, Otra Feria, The White Lodge, Córdoba, Argentina.
2019, Portable Beautifiers, Commission & Solo Show, Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Lima, Peru.
2019, Amor Humano, KM 0.2, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Curated by Natalia Viera Salgado.
2018, Performance as Repair, Screening and Artist Talk, The 8th Floor, NY, curated by
Colectivo se Habla Español. Listen Here
2018 Safe Conduct, performance in dialogue with HOME by Tribble & Mancenido, Cathouse Proper, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Amor Humano, Lima, Peru
2017 Honoring the Treaties, Manhattan, New York. Produced with support from Camila Sol
2017 It's My Party and I Do What I Want To!, Canal St. Market, NY
2016 ARTBO, Art Fair, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
2016 Trashed, New York.
2016 The Gold Series: Madrid Chapter (Performance), ARCO Art Fair, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2015 SAQUEO / LOOT, Solo Project, Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Lima, Peru
2014 The Gold Series; Burrinja Chapter, HillScene Live, Melbourne, Australia
2014 From From Dawn to Dawn, Part of White Night, Testing Grounds, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Lima Linda 1.0, El Galpón Espacio, Lima, Peru
2013 I Live in The Lucky Country and I Love It!, Melbourne Fringe, Melbourne, Australia
2013 The Selfie Booth, Melbourne Fringe, Melbourne, Australia
2013 JOMO (Joy of Missing Out), Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia
2011 Circa 1884, Art House, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Veiled: An Ode to Melancholy, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia

Group shows
2024, Mostra America Latina, Casa Franca Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Curated by Asia Stewart
2024, Political Circus, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, Curated by Rockford Projects
2023 - 2024, Tesorous Ancestrais do Peru, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Curated by Patricia Arana & Rodolfo de Athayde
2023, Multipolar, Curated by Itzel Vargas Plata, NADA, NY
2023, TIME IS…, Curated by Efraín Rozas, Mise-en-Place, Brooklyn
2023, Small Things That Seem Eternal, Curated by Mahara Martínez, Mahara + Co, Miami
2022, Satélite, Curated by Elena Ketelsen González & Edra Soto, The Franklin, Chicago
2022, The Bone That Sings Was Mine, Curated by Defne Tutu, Chashama, NY
2022, Terms of Endearment, Curated by Claire Breukel, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
2021, Summer Showers, Curated by The Moving Company, Essex Flowers, NY
2021, What is Real?, Curated by Natalia Almonte, Nicole Economides & Tunie Betesh, Brooklyn.
2021, The Moving Company and Friends: Vernal Equinox, Curated by Laura Bernstein, Tamar Ettun, and Rebecca Pristoop, The Moving Company & Essex Flowers Gallery, NY
2021, Is It A Good Time?, Curated by Maryam Faridani & Nicky Ni, Mana Contemporary
2020, LANDMARK, Km 0.2, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2019, We Buy Gold, Curated by Good to Know, FYI, Miami
2019, VERGE, The Border Project Space, Brooklyn.
2018, EMPATHY, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, curated by Gabriel de Guzman
2018 PERFUCH 3, UV Estudios, Buenos Aires, Argentina, curated by Violeta Mansilla
2018, Art Lima, Km 0.2, Lima, Peru
2018 DOLORES, Km 0.2, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 Et tu, Art Brute?!, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2017 BOTANICAL, Curated by Joaquin Goldstein, Local Project, Queens, NY
2017 DISORDER, Unfollow Colletive, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Traveler. Curated by Shirley Irons. School of Visual Arts, NY
2016 2da Gran Bienal Tropical. Curated by Marina Reyes Franco, Radames "Juni" Figueroa, Stefan Benchoam & Pablo Leon de la Barra, Loiza, Puerto Rico
2016 Kunstraum Summer Group Show, Brooklyn, NY
2016 EMBRACE, Kunstraum LLC, Brooklyn, NY
2016, ARCO, Art Fair, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Madrid
2015 ArtLima, Art Fair, Gonzalez & Gonzalez Gallery, Lima, Peru
2015 Small Works ART PRIZE, From Dawn to Dawn (Objects), Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Lithium, IMPAKTO & Gonzalez y Gonzalez Gallery, Lima, Peru
2014 CALL, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia, Spain
2014 Dislocación, Gonzalez & Gonzalez Gallery, Lima, Peru

Residencies, collaborations and other engagements
2023, Hello New York!, Curatorial Program for Research, New York
2022, Pocoapoco, Residency, Oaxaca, Mexico
2022, Miércoles Culturales. Conversatorio con Iván Sikic, Artist Talk with Fabiola Arroyo, Corriente Alterna Art School, Lima.
2022, Amazon Aid Foundation’s Cleaner Gold Summit: Art & Awareness, Guest Speaker
2020, Selected Artist, AFA Masterclass, led by Terike Haapoja, Ahmet Ogut, Stefanos Tsivopoulos
2015 Spooky Action – Performative Collaboration with Oliver Bulas, Y Gallery, New York
2015 The Watermill Centre, with Tamar Ettun & The Moving Company, New York
2014 Creative Development/Residency with artist & curator Predrag Pajdic, Paris, London, Melbourne
2014 Testing Grounds, Residency, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Residency under the guidance of Don Asker, Naarilla, New South Wales, Australia
2013 El Galpón Espacio, Residency, Lima, Peru
2013 The DOS Collective, Guest Presenting Artist, Occasion #2, Melbourne, Australia
2013 La Pocha Nostra & the Athens School of Fine Arts, Residency, Athens, Greece
2013 Metro Arts, Residency & Presenting Artist Brisbane, Australia
2011 This Is Not Art Festival Resident Artist, Newcastle, Australia

Distinctions
2023, Palm Foundation Award Grantee, El Patio by Art Baja & Zona Maco, Todos Santos, Mexico.
2019 Shortlisted Artist; Creative Time Open Call, NY
2015 CALL XVII; Selected artist, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia, Spain
2014 JUMP Mentoring Award Grant; Australia Council for the Arts
2011 Orloff Award for Excellence; Victorian College of the Arts
2011 Melbourne University Theatre Board Development Grant
2006 Achievement in Performance; Melbourne University Theatre Board
2006 Performance of the Year; Melbourne University Theatre Board

Selected Press
Quiroz, D. Violencia contra la mujer, migración y extractivismo en exposición de Iván Sikic, El Comercio, 2022
López, M. ReflexionesColectivas III, Relieve Contemporáneo, 2020
Viera, N. Amor Humano, TerremotoMX, 2019
López M. ArtLima 2018 / Parte I, Relieve Contemporáneo, 2018
Grahm, A. Honoring the Treaties by Iván Sikic, Art Reveal Magazine, NY, 2017
Whitaker, L. Performance artist highlights cultural conflict by walking Broadway, Metro, New York, 2017
Backhouse, M. Gold Standard: Ivan Sikic, Art Guide Australia, 2016
Sesé, T. La crisis de los refugiados sacude ARCO, La Vanguardia, Spain, 2016
Campos, P. Siria también llega a ARCO, El Confidencial, Spain, 2016
Held, J. Artist Expresses Global Income Disparity With 99 Balloons And One Gold Brick, Art Report, 2015
Sant’Anna, A. Artista peruano Ivan Sikic promove simbólica corrida ao ouro en ‘Saqueo’, O Globo, 2015
Miller, M. Income Inequality Visualized By One Gold Brick and 99 Balloons, Co.Design, Fast Company, 2015.
Hamada, K. 99 Balloons, 1 Brick of Gold, 7000 Thumbtacks, BOOOOOOOM!, 2015.
Borrás, D. El arte joven llama a la puerta, El Mundo, Valencia, 2015
Mufson, B. Explaining Income Inequality with Balloons, Gold, and Thumbtacks, The Creators Project, 2015
Von Klemperer, L. Artist Buries $2,000 Gold Nugget and Lets Public Loose, Art Report, 2015.
Valentine, C. Artist Buries Gold in Abandoned Mansion to Illuminate Peru’s Troubled History, The Huffington Post, 2015.
Artishock, IVÁN SIKIC: SAQUEO, Artishock, Chile, 2015.
Neuendorf, H. Artist Turns Abandoned House Into a Gold Mine to Make a Point, Artnet News, 2015.
Mufson, B. Artist Hides a $2,000 Gold Nugget Inside a Mansion Filled with Dirt, The Creators Project, 2015
Garavito, A. El oro que se encuentra en la tierra, El Comercio, 2015