Isabelle Cornaro

Isabelle Cornaro investigates the relationship between objects value, and art, through the issues of representation, perceptual experience, and reproduction. Through a practice engaging with diverse media—including painting, sculpture, video, drawing, and installation—she examines the translation of forms and languages, reappropriating, for example, paintings of an old master into a 3D installation, a film into a graphic score, or the vocabulary of Minimalism into a more emotional language. She mines ambiguity by setting up a tension between the analytical, symbolic, lyrical, and anecdotal, addressing how our way of looking constructs the world and its uses.

Isabelle Cornaro (b. 1974, France) lives and works in Paris. In recent years, her work has been exhibited internationally in solo exhibitions at Fondazione Giuliani, curated by Adrienne Drake (Rome, 2024); Today Art Museum, curated by Damien Zhang (Beijing, 2024); Balice Hertling (Paris, 2022 and 2018); Château de Rambouillet  (Rambouillet, 2022); Ludwig Museum, curated by Beate Reifenscheid (Koblenz, 2021); Musée de l’Orangerie, curated by Cécile Debray (Paris, 2021); Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, curated by Mouna Mekouar (Paris, 2021), among others.

Her work has also been featured in group shows at MCA Chicago (Chicago, 2024), Frac île-de-France, Les Réserves (Romainville, 2024); CAPC - Musée d’art contemporain (Bordeaux, 2023); Balice Hertling (Paris, 2022 and 2021); Kanal Pompidou (Brussels, 2020); Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2020); Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, 2018); Arsenal Contemporary (New York, 2018); Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2017); Kunstraum (London, 2017); Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris, 2016), among others. In 2021, she was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize.