MARIKA WHITAKER is a text-based installation and ritual artist whose work explores language as an embodied interface where ideological power dynamics play out on an intimate scale. Through a practice of repetitive pinpricking, accumulative touch points and string weaving, Whitaker builds relational text instruments that hold vibrational potential for connection, play, and co-becoming.
CONTACT
Email: marikawhitakerstudio@gmail.com
Additional Work:
www.marikawhitakerportfolio.com
EDUCATION
2016-2018: M.F.A.- School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2004-2006: B.A.- Drawing/Painting Gordon College, Wenham MA
2002-2004: Art- Drawing/Painting Concentration Wheaton College, Wheaton IL
WORK
2017-Present: Dean of Community Life, Painting and Drawing Instructor, & DEIJA Coordinator, The Waring School, Beverly MA
2020-2022: Adjunct Instructor (Painting & Drawing), Bunker Hill Community College, Boston MA
EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2023 July: Women Talking, Cove Gallery, GROUP
2023 July: Rituals, Wavelength Gallery, Chattanooga TN, GROUP
2022 Apr: A World Awry, Rocky Neck Art Association, Gloucester MA GROUP
2021 Dec: Nothing Exists Here Except the Flower, Rocky Neck Art Association, Gloucester MA SOLO
2021 May: 40 Under 40, Rocky Neck Art Association, Gloucester MA GROUP
2021 May 13: Murmurations, Brooklyn NY
2021 January: Touch, Pt. 1, Wavelength Gallery, Chattanooga TN, GROUP
2020 August: The Artist Residency Project, TSA@PDF, GROUP
2020 April: WHAT’S NEXT: Art for Tomorrow, Emerson Contemporary, Boston MA GROUP
2019 Dec: INCISION// falling together, holding apart Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn NY
2019 July: Motherarts: Interrupted, Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2019 March: CON/SENT, Spaceus Porcelain Gallery, Boston MA
2019 March: Fresh Faces, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston MA GROUP
2018 Dec: Ring of Fire Benefit Concert, Glen Urquhart School, Beverly MA
2018 July: School of the Art Institute of Chicago MFA Exhibit, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago IL GROUP
2017 May: Collaborative Collisions, C.C.’s Art Gallery&Garage, Chicago IL GROUP
2017 February: ME/YOU/HER, Gallery 95, Beverly MA SOLO
2016 September: L’Oublie, The Johnson Gallery, Beverly MA, SOLO
2016 March: Beverly Art Salon, Installation at Cabot Theater, Beverly MA GROUP
2015 July: Liminal small works, SOMA Beverly MA SOLO
2013 July: Nigredo: Gallery 310, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly MA SOLO
2013 June-August, Caravaggio Studies, Christ Church Gallery, Hamilton MA SOLO
2013 April: Small Works Show, Mingo Gallery, Beverly MA GROUP
2012 September: Transformation, Porter Mills Gallery, Beverly MA JURIED/GROUP
2011 August: Featured Performer with John Francis and John Carter Cash
Benefit Show for New England Coalition Against Trafficking (NECAT)
2009 June: Motherworks, Atomic Cafe Gallery, Beverly MA SOLO
2007 July: Landscape of Memory, McInniss Gallery Eastern University, St. David’s PA SOLO
COURSEWORK & RESIDENCIES
2022-23: Education for Racial Equity with Resmaa Menakem: Reparative Communal Consultations, Virtual
2021: Coaching Program: The Conscious Racist: Healing the Sick Collective Consciousness, Lead for Liberation, Chicago IL
2020: Artist Residency Project, School of Visual Arts, NYC (I Found U Collective)
2020: Sanford Fellowship Recipient, Haystack Mountain School of Craft
2019: The Bracha Ettinger Seminar, GCAS, Paris, France
2018: Faculty Grant Recipient, Waring School, Beverly MA