Tariku Shiferaw is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting and installation, whose practice centers on mark-making as both a formal and conceptual strategy. Through abstraction, he engages the discourse of painting while addressing questions of space-making and value within Eurocentric systems, particularly in relation to the African Diaspora. His work examines how histories, symbols, and narratives are inscribed and erased, positioning mark-making as a site of resistance and cultural affirmation. His ongoing series Mata Semay (“night skies”) constructs immersive environments that draw on African and diasporic mythologies to propose alternative cosmologies and systems of knowledge beyond Western frameworks. Recent solo exhibitions include Maps and Borders at the New York Print Center (2025); Marking Oneself in Dark Places at Galerie Lelong & Co., New York (2023); Making Space: One of These Black Boys at the Southampton African American Museum (2023); and It’s a love thang, it’s a joy thang at Galerie Lelong & Co., New York (2021).