Biniam Tikue
Biniam Tikue is a contemporary painter and photographer in Eritrea, East Africa. He was born in 1986 at Arareb in the northern part of the country. He completed his primary and secondary education in Asmara, the capital, and learned art in an art academy of the Union of Eritrean Youth and Students’ in 2004. Biniam participated in various artistic specialties, including visual arts at the Satreb Art Institute in 2008-2011, engraving and etching at Alliance Francaise d’Asmara in 2010, graphic design at Satreb Art Institute in 2013, Sketch from Life (organized by artist Abraham Hailemichael) in 2014, drama at Satreb Art Institute in 2014, and cut walk to canvas (fashion design) in ERISA (Eritrea-South Africa) in 2015. He attended a one-month crash course delivered by Chinese art masters on painting and Chinese Art (organized by the Confucius Institute) in Asmara in 2017. He also attended a one-month crash course in 2017 provided by American Artist Kristin Pluhacek and organize organized by the American Center in Asmara in 2018. Biniam has taken an active part in many contemporary African arts in group exhibitions, solo exhibitions, and special art projects in Eritrea. Currently he is teaching basic art courses at Satreb Art Institute since 2015.
"I believe my outlook, moods, and practices come from my ideas. That is why I often choose to intimately explore and validate them. So, under diversity I like to represent landscapes by figurative conceptual works. I characterize my ideas through them by the lines, forms, colors, and materials." -Biniam Tikue
