BIO

RIKA KOVA is an Arizona-based artist and sculptor who primarily focuses on ceramics. Her works include sculptures, lighting, and hand-made custom furniture pieces. Each is a combination of art and design, abstract and functionality. Rika was born and raised in a small town in Siberia to a family of local indigenous peoples. At the age of nineteen, she immigrated to the US where she developed her artistic skills and received her BFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2022). Currently, Rika works in her studio in downtown Scottsdale.

ON A DARKER SIDE. ON A LIGHTER SIDE
(2023)

Life is a balance. It's about finding things that make it beautiful when the room seems so dark and being able to accept the beauty of all the dark spaces that balance out the lighter moments. We choose a room to be in, but there's always going to be a force/energy/God who will even things out. Life is a constant change of moments, good and bad, joyful and terrifying, light and dark. This collection was created to admire when those moments come. It is a reminder that everything in life is so temporary.

WHEN THE SAME SKY IS BLUE (2023)

Places inspire.

Grey Chicago skies and long windy winters are now replaced by unlimited sun and dry heat that each time when stepping outside feels like a warm hug. This collection is about artistic curiosity, and trying new things while setting in a new landscape. Someone who was so deeply loyal to fifty shades of grey craved colors. "The Same Sky Is So Blue" represents the world within the same person, just like the two places - it is less diverse and less chaotic; it's brighter, warmer, and happier.