Naomi Lisiki (b.1997, Guadeloupe) is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn. Originally born and raised in the French West Indies, she grew up surrounded by the serene and vibrant sea. 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”, charting a personal mythology that reclaims and reimagines her life as a woman from the Caribbean diaspora. Her paintings, washed in colored hues that echo cyanotypes and alternative printing processes, bloom with delicate forms, suggesting shapes of nature engulfed in shimmering light. Each painting is a trace, each color a residue of a lived experience, visual memories that invite the viewer to wander through a landscape of emotion.
Having heritage from Morocco and Congo, she carries within herself a consciousness shaped by the movement and cultural multiplicity that is integral to these places. When she paints, she reflects on the shifting landscapes of Morocco, Congo, and Guadeloupe. From the sun-warmed soil to the expanding skies and seas, every painting stroke lingers a celebration of colors and freedom. Painting is to her a site of discovery and metamorphosis, a space where perception, memory and gesture converge to form meaning.
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 Material Tales: Gestures of Abstraction, Bode Gallery, Berlin Germany
2025 Domestic Interventions (Part II): The Spirituality of Color, Gladwell Projects, Harlem, New York
2025 When the Mountains Dance with the Ocean, Bode Gallery, Capetown, South Africa
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