Karice Mitchell is a photo-based installation artist whose practice uses archives of Black erotic publications and digital manipulation to explore the representation of the Black female body in popular culture and pornography. Through scanning, enlarging and cropping, Mitchell creates works that hover between explicitness and illegibility. By re-contextualizing existing imagery, she reframes Black womanhood and sexuality beyond the constraints of the white gaze, patriarchy and historical constructs.
Karice Mitchell (b. 1996, Toronto, Canada) lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. Mitchell received her BFA at York University in 2019 and her MFA at the University of Waterloo in June 2021. Solo exhibitions have taken place at Silke Lindner, New York, NY (2025); Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA (2024); Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, CA (2024); Burrard Arts Foundation, CA (2023); Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, CA (2023); and University of Waterloo Art Gallery, CA (2021). Recent two-person and group exhibitions include François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA (2025); Susan Hobbs, Toronto, CA (2022-23); the plumb, Toronto, CA (2023); and Gallery 44, Toronto, CA (2022). Mitchell is a Black Scholar Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia. Her work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada.
Untitled (Angel I), 2025, Archival inkjet print, custom frame, sandblasted glass, vinyl, 38 x 28 inches + vinyl
Installation view, economy of pleasure, Silke Lindner, New York, NY, 2025
Angel (IV), 2025, Archival inkjet print, custom frame, 14 x 11 inches | 36 x 28 cm
Sensation (Diptych), 2025, Archival inkjet print, custom frame, sandblasted glass, 20 x 36 and 11 x 18 inches | 51 x 91 and 28 x 46 cm
Paradise (Triptych), 2025, Archival inkjet print, custom frame, sandblasted glass, vinyl, 40 x 30, 15 x 32, 40 x 16 inches | 102 x 76, 38 x 81, 102 x 41 cm
Installation view, The Lind Biennial, 2024, The Polygon, Vancouver, CA. Photo courtesy of The Polygon and Akeem Nermo
Installation view, The Lind Biennial, 2024, The Polygon, Vancouver, CA. Photo courtesy of The Polygon and Akeem Nermo
She May Be Many Things I, 2024, Archival inkjet print, glossy lamination, mounted on UltraBoard, with custom frame, 45 x 48 in | 114.30 x 121.92 cm
Installation view, becoming and unbecoming (working title), 2024, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, CA. Photo: Dennis Ha.
becoming and unbecoming (working title), 2024 (Detail)
Installation view, I, from Will to adorn series, 2024, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, CA. Photo: Dennis Ha.
Installation view, II and II, from Will to adorn series, 2024. Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, CA. Photo: Dennis Ha.
Installation view, IV, from Will to adorn series, 2024. Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, CA. Photo: Dennis Ha.
Installation view, matter of becoming, 2024, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
pleaser, 2024, Archival inkjet print mounted on aluminum, 52 x 12 inches | 133.6 x 32 cm (framed)
Karice Mitchell, installation view, 2023, Wil Aballe Art Projects | WAAP, Vancouver, CA
Adorned I, 2022, Archival Inkjet Print Mounted on Aluminum (Framed), 62 x 42 in | 152.4 x 101.6 cm
Untitled (Black and Blue), 2022, Archival inkjet print mounted on aluminum, 41 x 31 inches | 104 x 79 cm (framed)
Untitled Diptych (Woman in Pink Bikini), 2022, Archival inkjet print mounted on aluminum, 49 x 17 in each | 142.5 x 43 cm (framed)
Untitled (Gold Hoop), 2022, Archival inkjet print mounted on plexiglass, 24 x 16 in | 61 x 40.5 cm
Untitled (Red Acrylics), 2022, Archival inkjet print mounted on plexiglass, 18 x 12 in | 45.7 x 30.5 cm