Tiko Kerr

BIOGRAPHY

1953 Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Over the past 35 years Tiko Kerr’s artistic practice has included bold explorations into painting, collage, drawing, printmaking, murals, performance and set design, all the while considering the politics of perception. Kerr's visual vocabulary has evolved stylistically through sequential series. Most recently, Kerr is concerned with exploring the emotive force that’s offered by the tension created between abstract forms and figuration. Kerr’s compositions combine instinctive, figurative structure with abstracted, painterly gesture.


The impetus of his thematic direction is informed by the collective consumption of cultural images and narratives at the present period in the history of art where there’s an endless range of visual languages available. Kerr’s latest enquiries are predicated on the methodology of collage because it offers the most fitting description of the conditions and choices afforded to us in our fragmented and distracted contemporary moment.


Tiko Kerr is a Canadian artist who has developed his artistic processes in Vancouver since the early 1980’s. Kerr attended the University of Calgary and graduated with a degree in Biological Science, which he be...

1977 BSc Biology, University of Calgary

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Respair, Monica Reyes Gallery, Vancouver, BC. Canada
2022 The Politics of Proximity, Monica Reyes Gallery, Vancouver, BC. Canada
2021 Plexus, Monica Reyes Gallery, Vancouver, BC. Canada
2020 Through the Past, Darkly, Monica Reyes Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2019 Reframed, The Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
2018 Affinities, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Legends of Utopia, South Main Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2017 Mythic Proportions - The Politics of Seeing, South Main Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2016 Body Language, South Main Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2015 The Past is Personal, Robinson Studios Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2010 Lush Life, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2009 You Are Here, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2008 The Lazarus Tree, Windsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2002 The Indomitable Spirit, Heffel Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2001 Mourning Paintings, Heffel Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2000 New Work, Heffel Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1993 Privilege, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1992 Tuscan Pictures, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1991 N...