Clotilde Jiménez (born 1990) is a multi-disciplinary American artist who works with ceramics, collage, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. His work's common themes include blackness, gender, masculinity, and sexuality. Jiménez lives and works in Mexico City.
Life and career Jiménez was born in 1990 in Honolulu to Puerto Rican and African-American parents. His father was a body builder and would go on to influence aspects of his work.
He was raised in a poor neighborhood in Philadelphia. He attended Charter High School for Architecture + Design, a now-defunct school that gave opportunities to at-risk kids with creative ambitions.
In 2013, he earned a BFA in printmaking from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and 2018 a MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Most recently, in early 2023, he was selected as one of the artists to illustrate and give life to the Artistic Posters for the Paris 2024 Olympic & Paralympic Games.
Jiménez works closely with the esteemed art dealer Mariane Ibrahim and is represented by her gallery.
Individual exhibitions La Memoria del Agua, Mariane Ibrahim, Mexico City, Mexico, 2023 The Contest, Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago, IL, USA, 2020 Un Nouveau Monde, Paris, 2022 Apple of My Eye, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA, 2018
Collective exhibitions Left Hanging - One Sculpture, One Rug & Painting, dot.ateliers, Acra, Ghana, 2023 Puerto Rico Negrx, MAC Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2023 The Condition of Being Addressable, ICA, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2022 La Vie en Rose, Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago, IL, USA, 2022 J'ai Deux Amours..., Mariane Ibrahim, Paris, France, 2022 Otrxs Mundxs, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico, 2020 Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK, 2020 Shifting Gaze, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA, USA, 2020 A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience: 20 Years of the Beth Rubin DeWoody Collection, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, USA, 2020 Disembodiment, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA, USA, 2019 As Long As We're Flyin 'This World Ain't Got No End, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy, 2019 Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of the Black & Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art, Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL, USA, 2018 Cosmic Traffic Jam, Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA, 2018 Black Stories, Mariane Ibrahim, Seattle, WA, USA
Collections CSS Bard College Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, USA The Ford Foundation, New York City, NY, USA University Hospital, Cleveland, OH, USA Dean Collection, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Publications Phaidon (2023). Vitamin C+: Collage in Contemporary Art Bennett, Joshua; Dunson, Danny; Quinn, Nathaniel Mary; Zimmerman, Emily (2020). Clotilde Jiménez
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