In Conversation With Tariku Shiferaw
| Episode 32

interview conducted by Valentina Plotnikova, Bode Gallery, July 20, 2024

Let’s go to the roots. I’ve read that you started painting in your childhood. Do you remember the moment when you understood that you are an artist and would like to devote your life to it?

Actually, I didn’t start painting until the end of my junior year in high school, in Los Angeles. However, I’ve always doodled, then moved on to still-life and portraiture drawings with pencil, charcoal, colored-pencils, then moved on to soft-pastels and oil-pastels before moving into oil and acrylic paintings. It was after attending a summer art program for high school students at California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA) held at Cal Arts that I decided I’d pursue art in college and professionally.

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