Ivelisse Jiménez

Ivelisse Jiménez's installations and assemblages present visual propositions regarding change and constructing meaning in dialogue with the inhabited space. Her work has been exhibited at the Museo del Barrio Biennale NYC, Bronx Museum NY, Prague Biennale, Cuenca Biennale, ARCO project rooms in Spain, and Museo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, among others. Awards include The Joan Mitchell Award for Painters and Sculptors and The Adolf Gottlieb Foundation Grant. She has a BA in Humanities from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, and an MFA in Studio Arts from NYU. After living and working in New York for 20 years, she now has her residence and studio in Puerto Rico.

During her residency, Ivelisse will work toward her next solo show which will take place in New York next fall. She will compose her pieces from fragments done at different moments in time and then assemble them, taking into consideration the space where they stand. The pictorial events she wants to examine link space, time, and form, intensifying our attention, connecting to the body, and in this way observing the artifice of construction in language and the processes by which we create meaning.