Itziar Okariz was born in San Sebastián and studied painting and sculpture at the Universidad del País Vasco.
Her work is usually based on photographs or film installations and performance, in forms inspired by the Situationists.
[1] According to Javier Hontoria of Artforum, she "has always focused on a performativity that also examines the ties between landscape and architecture, sign and ritual, or sexuality and territory.
In her quest to render the self, her practice took a turn to the verbal over the spatial, privileging language over the body... Much of Okariz's practice is built upon small linguistic units and signs that produce meaning through emphatic reiteration.
"[3] She usually try to do it while there is little movement in the streets because of the illegal aspect of the action and, "find it interesting to delineate what is legally allowed and what is not, as a definition of the individual in society.