Grus Virgo Painting

Sika Foyer is an American multidisciplinary artist who explores wrapping cultures, the materiality of wrapping and its cross-cultural rituals to tell ancestral stories and to examine forms of social injustice. Foyer’s tireless gestural motions and micro repetitive layering expose what is covered, what is forbidden and what is hidden in plain sight. Born and raised in Lomé, Togo, West Africa, Foyer was first introduced to drawing and clothing design at age 8 by assisting her fashion designer and dressmaker mother, Akouh Adjo Ebimide, in her Atelier, Chez DA Marie. Foyer earned a BA in Economics at Baruch College in 2000, and went on to complete an MS in Urban Studies at the New School in 2014. Throughout this time Foyer maintained a studio practice in New York and in 2020 obtained an MFA from Lesley Art + Design in Cambridge, MA.