Artist in Residence at ISCP in New York, January-March 2025

Tony Karlsson Savci

is a transdisciplinary artist working with the conditions of queer life, transgenerational trauma, and community resilience through performance, installation, text, and social practice. Their current project, I Am The Sun, is a poem using the sun as a metaphor for the Syriac Orthodox church, reflecting on its dual role in shaping and erasing identity, culture, and belonging.

Tony Karlsson Savci

Collaboration and collective processes form the core of Tony Karlsson Savci’s practice. They have worked with artists such as Every Ocean Hughes and Makda Embaie, the art collective Brown Island, and pop star Zhala. Together with Sara Kaaman, Michael Bekele, and Johnny Chang, they co-run Munnen (“The Mouth”), a cultural hub in Bagarmossen, Stockholm dedicated to art, experimental publishing, and community workshops.

Karlsson Savci has exhibited and performed at places including Södertälje Konsthall, Off Biennale (Cairo), Mint ABF (Stockholm), Baerum Kunsthall (Oslo), and the Whitney Museum (New York), among others.