Alisa Sikelianos-Carter (she/her) is a Black, Queer mixed-media artist from upstate New York, born in Boynton Beach, Florida. Her practice is grounded in ancestral reverence, intuitive research, and visual theology. Guided by animism, mythopoetics, shadow work, and spiritual inheritance, she explores the psychic landscapes of the self alongside metaphysical terrains of connection and the unseen. Her work engages grief, loss, vulnerability, and transformation as emotional and energetic currents that inform how perception shifts and how time is felt in the body.
Influenced in part by Black Witch Thought as articulated by Marcelitte Failla, Sikelianos-Carter embraces intuitive knowledge, personal cosmology, and the figure of the Black witch as a radical guide who redefines how we know what we know. Ancestors and Spirit are present in her practice, functioning as both narrative subjects and guiding forces that shape attention, orientation, and care. Working across drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and installation, she builds layered visual worlds through a slow, devotional process rooted in material experimentation. Patterns, elemental matter, and the interplay between shadow and luminosity play active roles in how her images communicate, accumulating visible traces of process and emotional residue across past and present.
Sikelianos-Carter has attended residencies at NXTHVN, Vermont Studio Center, The Wassaic Project, Yaddo, the Golden Foundation, Millay Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, Fountainhead, and Art Omi, and is a recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant. Select exhibitions include the Ford Foundation, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, the Tang Teaching Museum, and James Cohan Gallery. She received her MFA from Rutgers University in 2025 and her BA in Studio Art from SUNY Albany in 2015.