Naomi Lisiki (b.1997, Guadeloupe, French Caribbean) is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn. Originally born and raised in the French West Indies, Naomi draws inspiration from her childhood in the islands. Inspired by systems of nature, her aim is to express the inherent qualities of life that she felt language could not encapsulate. Working within abstraction, she channels her emotions to explore ideas around womanhood, spirituality and philosophy. In this way, she is able to express her “internal landscapes”, proposing a new narrative of her life and identity as a woman from the Caribbean diaspora. As our personal histories are entangled within larger structures, her abstraction comes from sensations, sensations that are shaped by collective memory, by colonial history, by erasure and reconstruction. Resembling cyanotypes or alternative printing processes, the colors, delicate and feminine shapes in her paintings may remind one of landscapes, bodies, repeated shapes in nature and are meant to act as visual memories.
Education
2020 Yale School of Art, MFA in Painting and Printmaking
2018 The Cooper Union School of Art, BFA in Fine arts
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Vespertine, Sargent’s Daughters, New York
Group Exhibitions
2025 When the Mountains Dance with the Ocean, Bode Gallery, Capetown
2024 Picnic at Hanging Rock: Chapter I, Sargent's Daughters Los Angeles, California
2023 If Work, Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program at Anonymous Gallery, New York
2021 Free as Air and Water, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
2020 My Flannel Knickers, Sargent’s Daughters, New York
Email: naomilisikistudio@gmail.com