Clotilde Jiménez

Clotilde Jiménez
Born	Clotilde Jiménez 1990 Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Alma mater	Cleveland Institute of Art Slade School of Fine Art
Website	www.clotildejimenez.art

Clotilde Jiménez (born 1990) is a multi-disciplinary American artist who works with ceramics, collage, painting, printmaking, and sculpture.[1][2] 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.[3][4] His father was a body builder and would go on to influence aspects of his work.[5][6]

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.[7]

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.[4][8] In 2023, Jiménez was commissioned by the International Olympic Committee to produce two artworks for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games artistic poster program. One representing the Olympic Games and another representing the Paralympic Games for Paris 2024.[9]

Jiménez works closely with the esteemed art dealer Mariane Ibrahim and is represented by her gallery.[10][11]

Individual exhibitions

• The Grotto. An Opera in Two Acts, Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico, 2024
• The Long Run, Mariane Ibrahim, Paris, France, 2024
• La Memoria del Agua, Mariane Ibrahim, Mexico City, Mexico, 2023
• The Contest, Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago, IL, USA, 2020
• Un Nouveau Monde, Paris, 2022[1][12]
• Apple of My Eye, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA, 2018

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

References

1. "Clotilde Jiménez's Poignant Collages Explore Themes of Reflection and Spirituality". 30 March 2022.
2. "Dine Art: Why are Dinner Plates Suddenly on the Menu for Galleries?". 17 March 2022.
3. "Édito: Les collages très urbains de Clotilde Jiménez à découvrir absolument". 15 February 2022.
4. Shehmir, Ayesha (March 22, 2020). "Why Visual Artist Clotilde Jiménez's Brand New Works Are On Our Radar". Harper's Bazaar Arabia.
5. "'It's a Rip-Off': Mariane Ibrahim Gallery Takes on Shipping Company over Lost Artwork". 9 September 2019.
6. Wu, Simon (September 8, 2020). "Clotilde Jiménez: The Contest". The Brooklyn Rail.
7. "Jiménez shows he's a heavyweight contender | Cleveland Institute of Art". www.cia.edu.
8. "Document unavailable". ProQuest.
9. Olympics, 2023 "Paris 2024 unveils artistic posters as vibrant Cultural Olympiad programme revealed" Retrieved 02 June 2023
10. "Michelle Grabner on Clotilde Jiménez". ProQuest. ProQuest 2458972394.
11. Palumbo, Jacqui (April 29, 2022). "The Somali-French art dealer bringing Black perspectives to Paris' gallery scene". CNN Style.
12. "Clotilde Jiménez — Galerie Mariane Ibrahim — Point de vue".