About

Ivelisse Jimenez has established a distinguished career through her research into abstract painting through mixed media and installation, which she has practiced for 30 years. Her work investigates the conditions that determine the construction of language.

Born in Ciales, Puerto Rico, she obtained a bachelor’s degree in humanities from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. She then moved to New York, where she remained for 20 years after completing her Master of Fine Arts at New York University.

Jimenez has received numerous accolades, including the Joan Mitchell Award for Painters and Sculptors, the Gottlieb Foundation Scholarship, and recognition from the Contemporary Arts Foundation. In 2013, she won First Prize in painting at the 7th edition of the Arte Laguna competition in Venice, Italy, and the University of Kent competition in 2008.

She has participated in the Cuenca Biennial, the Prague Biennial, and the Museo del Barrio Biennial in New York. In 2004, she was selected for special projects at the ARCO fair in Madrid, Spain. Jimenez has held solo exhibitions in Turin, Italy, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Madrid, Spain.

Her work has been reviewed in ArtNews, Art in America, ArtNexus, and Bomb Magazine, among others.

In 2005, she created a piece of public art for the new library in Barranquitas, which was commissioned by the Puerto Rican government.

Her work is part of the collections at the Museo del Barrio in New York City, the Bronx Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico in San Juan, where she currently exhibits her work.

Jimenez currently resides in Cupey, Puerto Rico. She has her workshop in Caguas and teaches courses at the University of Puerto Rico in Humacao.

She is represented by Latchkey Gallery in New York, where she will have her next solo exhibition in October 2024.