Lina Iris Viktor
About
Lina Iris Viktor is a Liberian-British multidisciplinary artist born in London to Liberian parents in 1987. She studied film at Sarah Lawrence College, earning a BA, and later pursued photography and design at The School of Visual Arts in New York, with an early background in performance arts. Initially trained in theatre and film, she transitioned to visual art around 2015, becoming largely self-taught in painting and adopting a practice that spans performance, photography, painting, sculpture, and water-gilding with 24-carat gold. Her work explores themes of blackness as materia prima, identity, heritage, diaspora, and the interplay between finite and infinite, microcosm and macrocosm, drawing from West African traditions, ancient Egyptian iconography, classical astronomy, and European portraiture.
Afro-Surrealism with opulent palettes of black, gold, crimson red, and ultramarine blue; self-portraiture blending photography, gilding, and symbolic patterns evoking mythology and cosmology
Selected Exhibitions
- Sir John Soane’s Museum, London (2024)
- Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm & Tallinn (2020)
- Autograph ABP, London (2019)
- New Orleans Museum of Art (2018)
- Amar Gallery, London (2017)
- Gallery 151, New York (2014)