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Izsys Archer (Carnegie Mellon University) is the recipient of a 2025 Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting & Sculpture.

Izsys Archer is a self-proclaimed Space Taker-Upper originally from Lafayette, Indiana. She received 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 her Nutritional Archive. She states: “My work operates through the strength of a divine gaze and intuition. Using movements that minimize and maximize to embrace a mode of copy and paste, I generate layered artworks that unpack what it means to love and to mislove.”

During her time as a Durwood Intern, Archer focused on curation and research at H&R Block Artspace in Kansas City, Missouri. She has shown work at Haw Contemporary, the Andy Warhol Museum, and co-curated exhibitions at the Leedy-Voulkos Arts Center. While in Pittsburgh, she was a BOOM Universe Resident and a part of 1Hood Media’s 2024-25 Artivist Academy Cohort.