Erika Hibbert is a South African visual artist based in New York. Her multimedia artworks are intimate expressions of her experience as an artist living and working on foreign soil, drawing on themes of dislocation, migration, alienation, nostalgia, and belonging. As a cathartic method of expelling her fears, in a process of better understanding herself and those she is closely connected to, she pulls and picks at her life’s experiences; measuring, weighing and sifting - searching. The political and social accents in her work are always referred to, and derived from, her own life. The surprise of the work is how the private examination of her personal explorations resonate with the largest and most universal of themes. Hibbert works her subjects in charcoal, oxides, inks, pigments, soil and oil paint and beeswax on canvas and paper or panel, as well as working in the print media of lithography, etching and photography.

Hibbert studied Fine Arts at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. A 2003 recipient of the Ampersand Fellowship, Hibbert lived and worked in Johannesburg between the early 1990s and the early 2000s, both on her own work and as a lecturer at local community colleges and in various community art development projects in the newly democratic South Africa. In 2004, she relocated to Botswana with her two daughters where she continued her practice and worked as an arts educator. In 2009, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she lived and worked for 11 years. Currently Hibbert resides in New Rochelle, New York. Her artworks continue to combine the visceral and the abstract, the somatic and the conceptual, in an endless tug between physicality and spirituality.