Education
2019 Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, New York, NY
2015 MFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2007 BFA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Adey Abeba, Modern Art Museum: Gebre Kristos Desta Center, curated by Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2026 Hulet Semāi, Nevada Museum of Art, curated by Apsara DiQuinzio, Reno, NV
2025 Defiant Imaginations, Vielmetter Los Angeles, LA
2025 Maps and Borders, New York Print Center, New York, NY
2023 Marking Oneself in Dark Places, Galerie Lelong & Co. New York, NY
2023 Making Space: One of These Black Boys, curated by Storm Ascher, Southampton African American Museum, Southampton, NY
2021 It’s a love thang, it’s a joy thang, Galerie Lelong & Co. New York, NY
2018 This Ain’t Safe, Cathouse Proper/ Brooklyn, NY
2017 Erase Me, Addis Fine Art (London project space), London, UK
2017 One of These Black Boys, Anthony Philip Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
Group Exhibitions
2026 Almost Famous, La Loma hosted at Vielmetter Los Angeles, CA
2025 Summer Reads, curated by Grace Hong, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
2025 The Abstract Future, curated by Alia Dahl, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics, curated by Dhyandra Lawson, Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Midsommar, Bodé Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2024 Coalescent Lights, curated by Kami Gahiga, 1-54 at Christie’s, Hong Kong
2023 Spectrum: On Color & Contemporary Art, curated by Key Jo Lee, Museum of The African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
2023 The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, co-organized by Asma Naeem, Dorothy Wagner Wallis, Hannah Klemm, and Andréa Purnell, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
2023 The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, co-organized by Asma Naeem, Dorothy Wagner Wallis, Hannah Klemm, and Andrea Purnell, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2023 Color Coded, curated by Dexter Wimberly, Bodé Projects, Berlin, Germany
2023 A Love Letter to LA, Superposition Gallery in collaboration with Phillips Auction House, Los Angeles, California
2023 Ümwelt, curated by Jonny Niesche, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2023 The Oyster is Your World, Coma Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2022 You'd Think By Now, curated by Rachel Vera Steinberg, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Geometries, Sugar Hill Museum, New York, NY
2022 States of Becoming, curated by Fitsum Shebeshe, ICI, New York, NY
2022 What You See Is What You Get, MASSIMODECARLO, Milan, IT
2022 Summer of Possibilities, curated by Alteronce Gumby, Bode Projects, Berlin, DE
2022 DIGS, curated by Kim Donaldson and Sean Lowry, Project8, Melbourne, AU
2022 Resilience, curated by Storm Ascher, Eastville Community Historical Society, Hamptons, NY
2022 What is Past is Prologue, 21cMuseum Hotel, Louisville, KY
2022 In Spite of Modernism: Contemporary Art, Abstract Legacies, and Identity, Curated by Haley Clouser, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
2022 Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth., Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Organized by The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Baltimore, MD
2021 Witness: African Diaspora, Piero Atchugarry, Miami, FL
2021 From Modern to Contemporary, CFHill Art Space, Stockholm, Sweden
2020 Abstraction in the Black Diaspora, False Flag Projects, co-curated by Ayanna Dozier and Tariku Shiferaw, Queens, NY
2020 Unbound, Zuckerman Museum of Art, curated by Nzinga Simmons, Kennesaw, GA
2020 Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth., California African American Museum (CAAM), Organized by The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Los Angeles, CA
2020 BLACK VOICES/BLACK MICROCOSM, CF Hill, curated by Destinee Ross, Stockholm, Sweden
2020 A Muffled Sound Underwater, Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Implied Body, Assembly Room, Curated by Emily Alesandrini, New York, NY
2019 Wu-Tang Clan X Absolute Art, Curated by Oliver “Power” Grant and Diya Vij, New York, NY
2020 Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth., National Underground Railroad, Organized by The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Cincinnati, OH
2019 What’s love got to do with it, The Drawing Center, curated by Lisa Sigal and Rosario Güiraldes, New York, NY
2020 6 Plus 1: Featuring Tariku Shiferaw, Hammond Harkins Galleries, Columbus, OH
2018 To Dream Avant-Garde, Hammond Harkins Galleries, curated by Alteronce Gumby, Columbus, OH
2018 Without Qualities, Organized by Alaina Simone, Addis Fine Art, New York, NY
2018 Hyphen America, Gallery 102, curated by Tsedaye Makonnen and Alexandra Delafkaran, Washington, D.C.
2018 People I Love Who Are Far Away, E.Tay Gallery, curated by Christina Papanicola and Gina Malek, New York, NY
2018 Into Action, Organized by For Freedoms, Los Angeles, CA
2017 A Poet*hical Wager, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Curated by Andria Hickey, Cleveland, OH
2017 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, part of Occupy Museums’ Debtfair, Curated by Mia Locks and Christopher Lew, New York, NY
2017 Black Magic: AfroPasts/AfroFutures, Honfleur gallery, curated by Niama Sandy, Washington, DC
2017 Leaving Home: Cathouse FUNeral Migrates North, curated by David Dixon, Beacon, NY
2017 Woe-nderland, Art in Flux Artfairs, Curated by Henone Girma, New York,
2017 Hard Cry, Lubov, Curated by Gabriel H. Sanchez, New York, NY
2016 Life Sized, Anthony Philip Fine Art, Curated by Anthony Philip, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Introductions 2016, Trestle Gallery, Curated by Jim Osman, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Off Pink, Parsons MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Kitchen, curated by Tina Kukielski, New York, NY
2015 New Work New York, 1st MFA Biennial Presented by St. Nicks Alliance & Arts@Renaissance, curated by Kat Griefen, Brooklyn, NY
2013 States of Becoming, 25 East Gallery, curated by Rujuta Rao and Lilly Handley, New York, NY
Lectures & Panel Discussions
Jun 2025 Panel Discussion, New York Print Center, NY, NY
Mar 2025 Seminar, Addis Ababa University: Alle School of Fine Arts and Design, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Nov 2024 Panel Discussion, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Mar 2024 Panel Discussion, Christie's, Hong Kong
Nov 2023 Artist Lecture, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Sep 2023 Art, Knowledge, and Cultural Production: Conversation Between Tariku Shiferaw and Larry Ossei-Mensah
Jun 2022 A Strange Place to Cast Our Dreams, panel discussion, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
May 2022 Panel Discussion, 21cMuseum Hotel, Louisville, KY
Feb 2022 Artist Lecture, Brown University, Providence, RI
Feb 2022 Panel Discussion, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
Nov 2021 Artist Lecture, Rutgers University (VMPA), Camden, NJ
Aug 2021 Artist Lecture, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
May 2021 Guest speaker for ‘Virtual Art &Architecture Student Exhibition’ at Cornell University and Syracuse University
May 2021 ‘Abstraction: Investigations of Social Change’ moderated by Seph Rodney at Galerie Lelong & Co. NY
Apr 2021 Let My Hair Down, conversation with Charles Moore at Galerie Lelong & Co. NY.
Apr 2021 ‘Behind the Canvas: Tariku Shiferaw’ conversation with Larry Ossei-Mensah on Clubhouse
Feb 2021 Guest Lecturer, Tariku Shiferaw: Making Space, Rhode Island School of Design,
Feb 2020 Visiting Lecture Series: Parsons The New School Fine Art MFA/BFA
Dec 2020 ‘Round Table Response: Abstraction in the Black Diaspora’ at False Flag
Nov 2020 Guest Lecturer at Cornell University, Art Department
Dec 2018 Prizm Panels at Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL
Feb 2018 Visiting Artist lecture at Vermont College of Fine Art
Nov 2017 ‘Bearden and Genealogies of Abstraction’ at Neuberger Museum of Art.
Oct 2017 A Poet*hical Wager, panel discussion at Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
Residencies & Programs
2026 – 2026 Addis Ababa University: Ale School of Fine Arts and Design, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2026 – 2026 Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2025 – 2025 Hermitage Artist Fellowship, Sarasota, FL
2023 – 2023 Experimental Print Residency at Lafayette College, Easton, PA
2023 – 2023 Arc-Athens artist residency, Athens, Greece
2020 – 2022 Silver Art Projects Residency Program, World Trade Center, New York, NY
2019 – 2020 LES Studio Program, New York, NY
2018 – 2020 Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2018 – 2018 Vermont College of Fine Arts, Winter Residency, Montpelier, VT
Publications
2025 Tariku Shiferaw One of These Black Boys, Frank Publishing
2024 Tariku Shiferaw Marking Oneself in Dark Places, Galerie Lelong & Co. New York
2020 Martin Barré Transatlantique, edited by Molly Warnock with texts by Max Estenger, Julia Fish, Joe Fyfe, Laura Lisbon, Tariku Shiferaw, Cheyney Thompson, ER Publishing