Bio
Tami Izko is a Spanish-Bolivian artist. Her practice is rooted in her autobiography. By making sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract ceramic sculptures, she familiarizes with the unfamiliar (Commute, 2023-ongoing), connects memory with transformation (Wounds, 2020) and explores power struggles through the journey of a magic stone (Bezoar, 2021-ongoing). A few of her joint projects include Eel Soup (2017-2022), Via Spaventa (2022) and The Crab’s House (2022-ongoing) and in these she explores the boundaries between different artistic expressions, finding bridges among two and three dimensional works that interact with each other creating a dimension of their own. Her site-specific intervention Inventory became the tenth permanent artwork at Fondazione La Raia in 2023. She has exhibited many of her works at international art fairs (Artissima, Miart) and group shows (Istanbul Biennale 2019, Grand Prix Fotofestiwal Ca- rougeois), while also taking part in a series of funded Fellowship programs (Boghossian Foundation, Art Futures Athens and Stiftung Kunstlerdorf Schoppingen). In 2024 she was listed among the 50 New European Talents by AD magazine Italy.
Tami Izko is a Spanish-Bolivian artist. Her practice is rooted in her autobiography. By making sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract ceramic sculptures, she familiarizes with the unfamiliar (Commute, 2023-ongoing), connects memory with transformation (Wounds, 2020) and explores power struggles through the journey of a magic stone (Bezoar, 2021-ongoing). A few of her joint projects include Eel Soup (2017-2022), Via Spaventa (2022) and The Crab’s House (2022-ongoing) and in these she explores the boundaries between different artistic expressions, finding bridges among two and three dimensional works that interact with each other creating a dimension of their own. Her site-specific intervention Inventory became the tenth permanent artwork at Fondazione La Raia in 2023. She has exhibited many of her works at international art fairs (Artissima, Miart) and group shows (Istanbul Biennale 2019, Grand Prix Fotofestiwal Ca- rougeois), while also taking part in a series of funded Fellowship programs (Boghossian Foundation, Art Futures Athens and Stiftung Kunstlerdorf Schoppingen). In 2024 she was listed among the 50 New European Talents by AD magazine Italy.
Exhibitions
Solo
November 2023, Via Spaventa, Fonderia, Verona (doule solo show with Federico Clavarino)
September 2023, Eel Soup (edible sculptures), Volvo Studio, Milan
June 2023, The Crab’s House (pt 3) with Federico Clavarino, SIC Athens
February 2023, The Crab’s House (pt 2), Ville Empain Residence
November 2022, The Crab’s House (pt 1), Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
September 2022, Via Spaventa, Espace Brockmann and Fondation Bruckner, Gevena
December 2019, Eel Soup, Viasaterna Gallery, Milan (double solo show with Federico Clavarino)
November 2018, Eel Soup, Pinguin, Bruxelles (double solo show with Federico Clavarino)
Group
March 2026, Golden Thread, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
March 2026, Pot Luck, MORPHO, Antwerp
October 2025, Anatomia del Visibile, Palazzo Ducale, Martano - Lecce
July 2024, Carta Cristallina, Ceramics and Illustration, Castellamonte, Piedmont
March 2024, LEAF Art Fair, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
November 2022, The Harvest, Stiftung Künstlerdorf, Schöppingen
December 2020, Gradi di Vuoto, Viasaterna Gallery, Milan
October 2020, Artissima Unplugged with Viasaterna Gallery, Turin
September 2019, Auto Fiction, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
September 2019, Kiraathane at Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul
2019, Grand Prix, Fotofestiwal Lódz
Workshops & Teaching
Visiting Lecturer, Academy of Fine Arts, Athens, 2023
Studio Orlando, Milan, 2019-2022
Visiting Lecturer, University of Roehampton, London, 2019
Member, Clay Garden, London 2019-2020
Member, Turning Earth, London 2018-2019
Member, Caulino Atelier, Lisbon, 2017-2019
Residencies
MADE Program, Syracuse, May 2026, Sicily
Boghossian Foundation artist in residence / February - April 2023, Brussels
Stiftung Künstlerdorf artist in residence / August - November 2022, Schöppingen
Awards /Grants
Jenni Crain Foundation, Research Grant, 2026
Art Futures Athens Fellowship, 2023
Press
Inventory:
Mousse Magazine
Lampoon Magazine
La Reppublica
Eel Soup:
Ignant Magazine
Nearest Truth podcast
Via Spaventa:
Ceramics Now
Publications
Eel Soup, with Federico Clavarino.
Published by Witty Books in June, 2022.
30 future sculptures, 3 missing drawings. Self-Published in Leipzig in November, 2022.