Lina Iris Viktor

Lina Iris Viktor is an English visual artist who is known for her paintings, sculptures, photographs, and performance art. She moved to the south of Italy in 2022. Viktor combines ancient and modern art forms to create multimedia paintings.

Biography Lina Iris Viktor was born to parents from Liberia, West Africa. Her parents left Liberia to move to the U.K. because of the First Liberian Civil War. Viktor traveled frequently as a child and for numerous years lived in Johannesburg, South Africa. Lina Iris Viktor in 2016 was thinking about creating artwork that corresponds to the history of Liberia, but it took around a year for her to articulate this concept because of how “complex and misunderstood” Liberia is. Eshun in this interview said that Viktor came to visit the Hayward Gallery and was immediately inspired to create "two new sculptural works and three new paintings for the show".

She is represented by Pilar Corrias, London.

Art Viktor integrates painting, sculpture, photography, sculpture, and gilding to portray the history of Liberia while also investigating "the relationship between art, prophecy, and spiritual belief". Viktor is inspired by source imagery including "astronomy, Aboriginal dream paintings, African textiles, and West and Central African myth and cosmology". Specifically in her series A Haven. A Hell. A Dream Deferred she discusses the "mythic history" of Liberia. 2018: The Black Ark, The Armory Show | Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, New York, New York 2018: A Haven. A Hell. A Dream Deferred, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana 2019: Some Are Born To Endless Night — Dark Matter, Autograph ABP, London

Group exhibitions

2014: Intangible Beauty: Beautiful Women and The Endless Void, Kasher Potamkin, New York, New York. 2016: As The Cosmos Unfolds, The Cob Gallery, London, United Kingdom. 2018: The Artsy Vanguard, Dior and Bergdorf Goodman, New York, New York. 2022: In the Black Fantastic, Hayward Gallery, London