Photo by Salima Allen—Acid Smile Studios
Niki Ford
Meet our artist
Lucas Artists Fellow
- Culinary Arts
- Visual Arts
About
Residency Dates
- January 2012 – December 2012
Region
USA
Niki Ford is an artist that lives and works in Los Angeles. Ford channels otherworldly narratives through pigmented stoneware sculpture, mixed-media paintings and works on paper. These pieces take us on a journey through the body, water, plants, landforms, poetry/prayer, histories/time and vortexes of many shapes and sizes. They lean into the corporeal, intuitive, reparative, devotional, and exemplary possibility expressed through queerness & gender otherness.
Ford works with line, texture, vibration, color, repetition/pattern, deviation from repetition/pattern, sympathetic gesture and repair. The work is also design and textile adjacent. In the past, Ford has referred to their practice as ‘psychedelic brutalism’ as it combines spirit work, intuitive construction and process driven aesthetics.
Recent exhibitions include: House Music (two-person exhibition) with Andrea Zittel, The Wolford House, Los Angeles (2025); Pompeii Drag, Broadway Gallery, NYC (solo) (2024); Freak of Nature, Five Car Garage (solo) (2024); Felix Art Fair with Broadway Gallery (two-person presentation) with Devin Troy Strother, Los Angeles (2024); Jeweled Earth, New Work by Niki Ford and Jieun Reiner, La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, 2023; Kneeling At The Mouth, The Lodge, Los Angeles (solo) (2022).
Programs:
- Marcus Exhibition When the World is Beautifully Strange (2025)