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Izsys Archer is a self-proclaimed Space Taker-Upper originally from Lafayette, Indiana. She graduated with a BFA in photography from the Kansas City Art Institute. Within her practice, she explores her intrinsic need to create through physical, digital, and ritualistic spaces of the Archive. Perpetual self-portraiture becomes a performance of identity as she interrogates notions of domesticity, memory, and Black iconography to wander on a journey of self-actualization and representation.

Archer was a Durwood Intern, which she focused on curation and research at H&R Block Artspace in Kansas City, MO. She has shown work at Haw Contemporary and co-curated exhibitions at Leedy-Voulkos Arts Center. While in Pittsburgh, Izsys has been a BOOM Universe Resident and currently a part of 1Hood Media’s Artivist Academy Cohort.